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This funding opportunity provides financial support for research on oyster pads and wave trip systems to enhance coastal resilience and habitat restoration in the Houston Ship Channel, specifically targeting academic and research partners within designated Cooperative Ecosystem Study Units.

This grant provides funding and support for researchers and institutions involved in atmospheric and geospace sciences, facilitating access to advanced facilities, data, and instruments for scientific study.

This grant provides funding for research institutions within the Great Lakes Northern Forest CESU to study the effects of harmful "forever chemicals" on fish and their ecosystems.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to U.S.-based public institutions and non-profits to extend existing clinical trials focused on neurological disorders, ensuring they can complete their research without introducing new objectives.

This program provides funding for researchers to explore how nanomaterials interact with biological and environmental systems, promoting innovative solutions for sustainable manufacturing and engineering.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to the National Children’s Alliance to enhance the capacity and effectiveness of Children's Advocacy Centers across the U.S. in responding to child abuse cases.

This funding opportunity is designed for organizations affiliated with the Piedmont South Atlantic Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit to conduct genetic research on threatened and endangered sea turtles, utilizing historical biological samples to inform conservation efforts.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to Fox Valley Technical College to enhance a national initiative that combats online child exploitation through law enforcement collaboration, community education, and technical assistance.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to low-income-designated credit unions to enhance their services and foster economic growth in underserved communities.

This funding opportunity provides financial support for institutions involved in scientific research and conservation efforts to restore native mussel populations in the Great Lakes region, specifically targeting the Indiana Dunes National Park.

This funding opportunity supports the development of user-centered decision-support tools that utilize advanced Earth science models to improve environmental decision-making across various sectors.

This funding opportunity is designed to support academic research institutions in developing innovative solutions to combat animal diseases, enhance agricultural resilience, and address unmet veterinary medical needs.

This program provides funding for researchers to develop innovative photonics technologies that improve medical diagnostics and therapies, particularly in areas like deep tissue imaging and neural activation.

This grant seeks innovative proposals from researchers and organizations to develop efficient methods for producing nitric acid using air and water, aiming to enhance chemical supply chains for defense and civilian applications.

This funding opportunity is designed for U.S. and non-U.S. organizations, including universities and businesses, to conduct groundbreaking research in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and resilient computing systems to enhance national security.

This initiative seeks input from gas turbine manufacturers and suppliers in the U.S. to identify challenges in the domestic supply chain and inform future investments for reliable electricity generation.

The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) is the component of the U.S. Department of Justice responsible for advancing the practice of community policing by the nations state, local, territorial, and tribal law enforcement agencies through information and grant resources. The COPS Office has been appropriated more than $20 billion to advance community policing, including grants awarded to more than 13,000 state, territorial, local and tribal law enforcement agencies to fund the hiring and redeployment of more than 136,000 officers. COPS Office information resources, covering a wide range of community policing topics such as school and campus safety, violent crime, and officer safety and wellness, can be downloaded via the COPS Offices home page, https://cops.usdoj.gov. The FY24 COPS Technology and Equipment Program (TEP) provides funding to state, territorial, local, Tribal, and other entities designated under the heading Community Oriented Policing Services, Technology and Equipment Community Projects/COPS Law Enforcement Technology and Equipment in JES Division C, which is incorporated by reference into Public Law 118-42, to develop and acquire effective law enforcement equipment, technologies, and interoperable communications that assist in responding to and preventing crime. The COPS Office is committed to advancing work that promotes civil rights and equity, increases access to justice, supports crime victims and individuals impacted by the justice system, strengthens community safety, protects the public from crime and evolving threats, and builds trust between law enforcement and the community.

This program provides funding for organizations to design and deliver training to support the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task force network, which includes law enforcement, prosecutors, digital forensic specialists, and other related agencies/organizations that address child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and online child exploitation.

Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) offer new technologies to support key mission requirements including preliminary damage assessments, debris measurements and calculations, visual evidence, confirmation analysis, establishing flood levels and damages to structures, search and rescue operations, and logistics and package delivery. As jurisdictions develop UAS programs and integrate this technology in emergency management operations, training is critical. FEMA supports the development and delivery of curriculum that leads to the competencies required for the emergency management and first responder communities to effectively use UAS before, during, and after disasters. Students, after completing UAS training, will be better prepared to effectively use UAS resources to achieve outcomes. Applicants can submit applications for this funding opportunity through FEMA Grants Outcomes (GO). Access the system at https://go.fema.gov/

The overarching objective of this program is to develop the core features of adaptive and resilient risk management frameworks that can maximize the environmental benefits and minimize the environmental harms of novel biotechnologies in the context of environmental stewardship- shared responsibility for ensuring environmental quality. Within that context, the following are objectives for this research: Objective 1: Comparative analysis of the core elements of existing and emerging risk management frameworks and stewardship practices regulating environmental biotechnology This objective builds on existing ERDC research into the risk management of novel environmental biotechnology that identifies key principles for best practice and knowledge gaps. In collaboration with scientific and social scientific experts in the USA and NATO partner countries, ERDC has taken the first steps to identify key requirements for the effective risk management of environmental biotechnology. The next step in this process must be to assess the fit of these requirements with existing practice. Objective 1 will include the following: i) identification of existing risk management and stewardship practices relevant to the regulation of rapidly-emerging environmental biotechnology applications, ii) comparative analysis identifying the common and distinct properties of these systems, iii) development of application-specific scenarios that can inform the identification of key metrics in objective 2. Objective 2: Identification and assessment of key metrics impacting the resilience of existing and emerging risk management methodologies and community partnerships ERDC research predicts that AI-accelerated research and development of environmental biotechnology is likely to outmatch the capacity of existing risk management and stewardship practices to ensure its safe and responsible use, necessitating the adoption of alternative approaches that are more flexible and resilient. At present, there are few to no objective metrics to comparatively evaluate biotechnology research and development, which limits ability to understand and adopt aligned or diverging approaches to managing pathogenic, environmental, and biodiversity risks. Building on the work in Objective 1, this objective includes the following: i) identification of key capacity metrics related to existing risk management and stewardship practices, ii) collection of data for those metrics across the systems identified in Objective 1, iii) quality assessment of the collected data. Objective 3: Comparative biotechnology modernization forecasting- characterizing future relationships in environmental stewardship Building on Objectives 1 and 2, this objective uses the identified metrics to build test scenarios underlying our understanding of risk management and stewardship practice among these systems. This objective includes the following: i) network analysis of the inter-relationships between risk management components, ii) development of scenarios that examine the impact of specific technology development on risk management and stewardship practices under the presence or absence of key components, iii) use of the capacity metrics identified in Objective 2 to examine how stewardship will fare under these different scenarios and the likely outcomes for environmental and human health. D. Public Benefit This work will improve understanding of how biotechnology activities must be regulated to generate public value and protect the public interest. It will improve our capabilities in promoting widespread access to the benefits of novel environmental biotechnology and preventing and mitigating against related potential harms and threats to human health and the environment.