Federal Science and Technology Grants

This grant provides funding to higher education institutions and nonprofit research organizations in underfunded U.S. states to enhance their biomedical research capabilities and ensure long-term sustainability.

This grant provides funding for research institutions to conduct large-scale studies that improve understanding of dental, oral, and craniofacial health through the validation of biomarkers and epidemiological data.

This funding opportunity supports collaborative research projects in chemistry and chemical engineering between U.S. and German researchers, allowing them to submit a unified proposal for joint funding.

This grant provides funding to alumni of U.S. government-sponsored exchange programs in Sudan to implement innovative projects that promote American values and support community development in areas such as culture, media, and technology.

This program provides funding for researchers to develop innovative engineering solutions that protect human and ecological health by addressing pollution and improving environmental quality.

This funding opportunity is designed to support research and development in nuclear technologies that enhance U.S. national defense capabilities, targeting universities, industry, and research organizations involved in nuclear deterrence and related fields.

This funding opportunity supports faculty research at predominantly undergraduate institutions to enhance scholarly engagement, build research capacity, and integrate research with undergraduate education.

This funding opportunity provides financial support for organizations to create public engagement activities in Bangladesh that celebrate American values and culture in connection with the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence.

This grant provides funding for researchers and organizations to conduct basic and applied scientific research that enhances the operational capabilities of the Navy and Marine Corps across various technology and engineering fields.

This funding opportunity seeks innovative research and development proposals from a wide range of organizations to create advanced military technologies that enhance defense capabilities and address operational challenges.

This funding opportunity supports research into the early development of the immune system in infants and children, particularly focusing on the effects of maternal health and infections like HIV.

This funding opportunity provides financial support for research projects aimed at improving safety for workers in the commercial fishing industry, targeting hazards like vessel disasters and onboard injuries.

This funding opportunity is designed for U.S. colleges and universities to establish a center of excellence in hydrographic research and education, enhancing NOAA's capabilities in ocean and coastal mapping over a five-year period.

This initiative provides funding to state and territory organizations to develop AI readiness and deployment strategies, fostering collaboration among education, workforce, and industry stakeholders to enhance local economies.

This funding opportunity supports researchers at U.S. higher education institutions and nonprofit organizations in exploring the complex interactions and systems of organisms through innovative biological research.

This funding opportunity supports research centers focused on improving mental health and addressing health disparities related to HIV/AIDS, particularly for early-career and underrepresented researchers.

This funding opportunity is designed to support innovative research and development projects from universities and research institutions that enhance the operational capabilities and technological advancements of the U.S. Navy across various critical defense areas.

This funding opportunity supports innovative research and development projects from various organizations to advance Army technologies in ground vehicle systems, focusing on areas like power, mobility, and survivability.

FY2025 Weather Program Office Research Program Announcement - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBES): This grant aims to fund interdisciplinary research that integrates social and behavioral sciences with meteorology to enhance public responses to hazardous weather events and improve community safety and resilience.

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.