Grants for Small businesses - Federal

This funding opportunity supports research on how inflammasome activation affects neurocognitive disorders and immune function in individuals with HIV and substance use disorders, encouraging studies that explore the interactions between these factors.

**CYCLE 4 POSTED ON 10 APRIL 2024. SEE ATTACHED UPDATED ANNOUNCEMENT FOR SPECIFIC TOPICS OF INTEREST IN CYCLE 4 AND SUBMISSION INFORMATION** **CYCLE 3, ORIGINALLY POSTED ON 21 MARCH 2023, IS UPDATED TO INCLUDE A QUESTION AND ANSWER DOCUMENT AND TO UPDATE THE SUBMISSION DATE TO 5 MAY 2023 BY 1700 EASTERN TIME** **CYCLE 3 POSTED ON 21 MARCH 2023. SEE ATTACHED UPDATED ANNOUNCEMENT FOR SPECIFIC TOPICS OF INTEREST IN CYCLE 3 AND SUBMISSION INFORMATION** **CYCLE 2 POSTED ON 8 FEBRUARY 2021. SEE ATTACHED UPDATED ANNOUNCEMENT FOR SPECIFIC TOPICS OF INTEREST IN CYCLE 2 AND SUBMISSION INFORMATION** Purpose: Future Army forces will need to conduct cross-domain maneuver (CDM) and at times, operate semi-independently, disbursed, and while communications and infrastructure such as Global Positioning System (GPS) are disrupted or denied. Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) will play a key role in expanding the operational reach, situational awareness, and effectiveness of maneuver forces in CDM. The Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is focused on developing fundamental understanding and informing the art-of-the-possible for warfighter concepts through research to greatly improve air and ground based autonomous vehicle perception, learning, reasoning, communication, navigation, and physical capabilities to augment and increase the freedom of maneuver in complex and contested environments. The Scalable, Adaptive, and Resilient Autonomy (SARA) program is focused on developing and experimentally accelerating emerging research in autonomous mobility and maneuverability, scalable heterogeneous and collaborative behaviors, and human agent teaming to realize adaptive and resilient Intelligent Systems that can reason about the environment, work in distributed and collaborative heterogeneous teams, and make op-tempo decisions to enable Autonomous Maneuver in complex and contested environments. In order to achieve this vision, advancements are needed in following: Novel methods for all-terrain ground and aerial maneuver to interact with and move through complex environments. Methods for scalable and heterogeneous collaborative behaviors in support of collaborative air and ground manned-unmanned teaming operations. Techniques for improved perception, decision-making, and adaptive behaviors for fully autonomous maneuver in contested environments. Methods, metrics, and tools to facilitate, simulate, and enable testing and evaluation of emerging approaches for intelligent and autonomous systems under Army relevant constraints and environments Experimental testbeds to develop and refine knowledge products to inform and transition technology to Army stakeholders.

TheNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID),intendstopublish a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) tosolicit applications for a Center of Excellence (CoE) for Systems Modeling of Infection and Immunity across Biological Scales that will: Develop and conduct innovative computational multi-scale modeling research for NIAID priority biomedical questions, including HIV/AIDS; Coordinate the NIAID and broader modeling community that conducts research on infectious- and immune-mediated diseases, through model and data sharing, opportunity funds, educational activities, and community-organizing activities; Conduct innovative research and coordination activities to improve data and model sharing in the NIAID and broader modeling community; Foster a diverse community of new and existing investigators dedicated to Infectious and Immune-mediated Disease (IID) multi-scale modelingand collaboration between experimental and computational scientists; Serve as point of contact to NIAID for the modeling community and pivot research activities to address acutely emerging NIAID needs, such as outbreaks, epidemics, or pandemics; Establish community development and educational opportunities in IID multi-scale modeling for students, post-doctoral fellows, and new/early-stage investigators; Enable new approaches for multi-scale model sharing and reproducibility aligned with theFAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) principles and theNIAID Data Ecosystem Portal. This Notice isbeing provided toallow potential applicants sufficient timetodevelop meaningful collaborations andprojects. Potentialapplicantsareencouraged tousethistimetodevelop leadership teams to cover the full range of expertise and experience to develop the coordinating cores and research projects that will represent and enable strong scientific and operational connections between the CoE and the larger IID modeling community. This NOFO will utilize theU54 activity code.Details for a pre-application webinar will be provided in the published NOFO.

This grant provides funding to organizations that train commercial truck and bus drivers, focusing on recruiting veterans, their families, and individuals from underserved communities to improve safety and job placement in the transportation industry.

This grant provides funding to small businesses developing innovative tools for bioenergy crop engineering to enhance sustainable energy production and reduce carbon emissions.

GCJ seeks to advance victim-survivor-centered investigations and prosecutions of perpetrators of atrocities committed in Burma since 2011, by supporting the implementation of the justice and accountability components of UN General Assembly resolution A/RES/78/219 with respect to the situation of human rights of Rohingya and other ethnic and/or religious minority groups in Myanmar. A successful project will result in the advancement of victim-survivor-centered investigations and prosecutions of perpetrators of atrocities committed in Burma since 2011.

This program provides financial support to agricultural producers and cooperatives for developing and marketing value-added products, helping to increase income and expand market opportunities.

This program provides funding to various organizations and entities to enhance direct sales of locally produced agricultural products, improving access to fresh food in communities across the U.S.

This funding opportunity supports researchers conducting fully remote clinical trials to evaluate the effectiveness of complementary and integrative health interventions, utilizing mobile health technologies without any in-person contact.

This funding opportunity provides financial support for U.S.-owned nuclear industry entities to develop advanced technologies for recycling used nuclear fuel and improving waste management, while ensuring compliance with national security policies.

The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (OES) announces an open competition (see eligibility information in Funding Announcement), under the Toxic Chemicals earmark to measurably and sustainably, reduce and mitigate environmental and human exposures to lead arising from occupational sources in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in Central America, South America, South Asia, Central Asia, and East Asia. Programming under this competition is intended to reduce lead pollution as well as promote and advance environmentally sustainable consumption and production at international, national, and subnational levels.

This grant provides funding opportunities for a wide range of organizations, including universities and businesses, to advance manufacturing technologies, with a particular encouragement for participation from historically black colleges and universities and minority institutions.

This funding opportunity is designed to support early career researchers in heliophysics, enabling them to conduct innovative studies related to the Sun and its interactions with the Earth and space environment.

This program provides financial support to U.S.-based developers of hydropower technologies, enabling them to access testing facilities that will help improve their innovations and accelerate commercialization.

This funding opportunity supports community-based research projects that aim to improve health outcomes and reduce health disparities among minority populations through collaborative interventions.

With this solicitation, BJA seeks a training and technical assistance (TTA) provider to help jurisdictions prevent and reduce overdose deaths as part of the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program (COSSUP). COSSUP provides funding and TTA to state, local, and tribal governments to develop, implement, or expand comprehensive programs in response to the overdose crisis and impacts of illicit opioids, stimulants, or other substances. This COSSUP Overdose Fatality Review (OFR) TTA Program provides training and supports collaborations that prevent and reduce overdose deaths. This program helps jurisdictions build and enhance multidisciplinary collaborations, collect and use multisector data, and conduct confidential individual death reviews in order to identify trends, incidents, and gaps in prevention efforts and services to inform innovative, community-specific overdose prevention and intervention strategies.

This grant provides funding to organizations that will assist correctional facilities in reforming restrictive housing practices, focusing on reducing solitary confinement while ensuring safety and compliance with federal standards.

This funding opportunity supports research projects that investigate individual differences in pain experiences and treatment responses, aiming to develop personalized pain management strategies while addressing the opioid crisis.

This funding opportunity supports U.S.-based organizations in evaluating the impact of upcoming public policies and programs that aim to improve health behaviors and reduce chronic disease risk factors through behavioral changes.

This funding opportunity supports innovative research to develop combination cancer therapies that integrate radiation treatment with targeted molecular agents, aimed at improving treatment effectiveness while reducing side effects.