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Research drives excellence in the College of Engineering by serving as a magnet to attract and retain outstanding faculty and students. Funding opportunities relevant to the College of Engineering will be posted here. If you are interested in pursuing any of these opportunities please contact Lori Jarmon (ljjarmon@iastate.edu, 294-3316) for assistance or additional information. New opportunities are posted weekly. To have the new opportunities delivered directly to your inbox please subscribe using your ISU email address. One email per week.

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DoT

Solicitation: DOT-SS4A-FY25-01

https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358587

Posted Date: March 28, 2025

Response Due Date: June 26, 2025, by 5:00 PM (EDT).

The purpose of this notice is to solicit applications for Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) grants. Funds for the fiscal year (FY) 2025 SS4A grant program are to be awarded on a competitive basis to support planning and demonstration activities, as well as projects and strategies to prevent death and serious injury on roads and streets involving all roadway users.

Joint Hydrographic Center 2025

DOC

Solicitation: NOAA-NOS-OCS-2025-30451

https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358602

Posted Date: March 27, 2025

Response Due Date: May 27, 2025

The purpose of this notice is to solicit proposals for a single cooperative agreement between NOAA and an institution of higher learning to operate and maintain a Joint Hydrographic Center as authorized in the Ocean and Coastal Mapping Integration Act and the Hydrographic Services Improvement Act. Additional supportive policy statements for the guidance of activities at these centers include the November 2019 Presidential Memorandum on ocean mapping, which calls for mapping, exploring, and characterizing the U.S. EEZ to improve our Nation’s understanding of our vast ocean resources and to advance the economic, security, and environmental interests of the United States. Proposals submitted in response to this announcement should advance the purposes of the Acts and the Presidential Memorandum by addressing the Program Priorities described in this announcement.

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ONR

Solicitation: N0001425SF002

https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358592

Posted Date: March 25, 2025

Response Due Date: September 05, 2025

DoD’s MURI program addresses high-risk basic research and attempts to understand or achieve something that has never been done before. The program was initiated 40 years ago and it has regularly produced significant scientific breakthroughs with far reaching consequences to the fields of science, economic growth, and revolutionary new military technologies. Key to the program’s success is the close management of the MURI projects by Service Program Officers and their active role in providing research guidance.

Program Announcement for MTO Pitch Day Solicitation

DoD

Solicitation: DARPA-PA-25-05

https://sam.gov/opp/1960fc69bfb040aca4f8b23dd39920d3/view

Posted Date: March 28, 2025

Response Due Date: July 07, 2025, 04:00 pm EDT

As stated in the MTO Office-wide Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), HR001124S0028, Section IV: Special Considerations, “Periodically, DARPA may endeavor to hold “Pitch Day(s). A “Pitch Day” entails DARPA soliciting proposals for a specific, targeted aspect under one or more of the BAA’s thrust areas. Proposers ultimately would pitch their proposals to DARPA via oral presentations.” In this regard, DARPA’s MTO will host a Pitch Day for engagement with prospective proposers and to catalyze future efforts in the topics of unconventional computing, biologically inspired microsystems, and commercially catalyzed defense development to enable next generation microsystems.
The goals of the MTO Pitch Day are to: 1) fund proposals for short-term efforts with the potential to grow into groundbreaking new DARPA programs, and 2) employ an acquisition strategy to encourage participation by new and first-time or non-traditional proposers. This funding opportunity will aim to broaden DARPA’s reach with small businesses, educational institutions, and other non-traditional performers to break down barriers of entry for performers new to DARPA and the national security space.

 

Developing Pedestrian Realistic Artificial Datasets (RADs)

DoT

Solicitation: 693JJ325R000014

https://sam.gov/opp/f23bb38d953043509b634d26efef38dd/view

Posted Date: March 27, 2025

Offer Due Date:  April 25, 2025, by 01:00 pm EDT

This is a solicitation for the development of Pedestrian Realistic Artificial Datasets for the Federal Highway Administration. This solicitation is being issued as a full and open competition. The Government intends to award a single contract as a result of this solicitation.

The solicitation has been amended to change the proposal due date to April 25th, 2025 at 1300 ET.

Issuance of this solicitation does not guarantee that an award will be made. Any resulting awards are subject to the availability of funding and the discretion of the awarding entity, including cancellation or amendment based on a determination of change in agency needs.

Autonomous Decisions, Algorithms, and Modeling (ADAM)

AFRL

Notice of Intent

Solicitation: FA2377-25-S-1207

https://sam.gov/opp/826532a830974581ad9a3229f5a237d3/view

Posted Date: March 26, 2025

Opportunity will open this year

Solicitations issued under this MAA will seek approaches covering one or more of the following Technical Areas. Efforts awarded under these Technical Areas may consist of concept development, analysis, basic research, applied research, advanced technology development, advanced component development and prototyping, experimentation and/or transition activities that will enable future efforts.

Technical Area 1: Multi-Domain Sense Making

Technical Area 2: Sensing Autonomy

Technical Area 3: Sensing and Effects Analysis

Technical Area 4: Multi-Sensing Knowledge

Technical Area 5: Sensing Management

 

Hybrid Proposers Day – Exponentiating Mathematics (expMath)

DARPA

Solicitation: DARPA-SN-25-44

https://sam.gov/opp/11ef0d3da9b947c693a0f4e5cee8da75/view

Posted Date: March 25, 2025

Proposers Day: April 23, 2025 at 10:00 am ET In person and Virtual

Registration Due Date: April 16, 2025 by 5:00 pm ET   REGISTER HERE

DARPA I2O is sponsoring an unclassified hybrid Proposers Day in support of the anticipated Exponentiating Mathematics (expMath) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA). The purpose of this event is to provide information on the expMath technical goals and challenges, address questions from potential proposers, and provide an opportunity for potential proposers to consider how their research may align with the expMath program objectives. Attendance is voluntary and is not required to propose to the expMath BAA.

RFI: Flexible and Malleable Battery Test and Evaluation Support

DoD

Solicitation: DARPA-SN-25-64

https://sam.gov/opp/a6a0dba30ed74455b3e31c645b17f745/view

Posted on: March 24, 2025

Response Due Date: April 21, 2025, by 05:00 pm EDT

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) seeks information on independent verification and validation (IV&V) capabilities for testing and evaluation of flexible or malleable batteries. Flexible and malleable batteries present IV&V challenges that are not found with current rigid designs, such as the need for a combination of mechanical testing with battery discharge monitoring.
The goal of this Request for Information (RFI) is feedback regarding the testing, evaluation, and metrology of flexible and/or malleable battery systems from stakeholders including industry, university-affiliated research centers (UARCs), government labs, and federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs) detailing infrastructure, equipment, testing methodology, and expertise related to the validation of battery systems with flexible or malleable characteristics. Responses to this RFI will be used to inform and support future DARPA solicitations on related topics.

 

 

NextFlex PC 10.0

DoD / NextFlex

Solicitation: PC 10.0

NextFlex

Posted Date: March 20, 2025

Webinar Date: March 27, 2025  Registration Deadline March 24, 2025 REGISTER HERE

Proposal Due Date: May 21, 2025

Project Call (PC) 10.0 is the tenth project call issued by NextFlex. Like the previous project calls, it is intended to advance the state of the art in manufacturing for hybrid electronics and to promote
the strength, competitiveness, and interconnectedness of the U.S. manufacturing ecosystem for hybrid electronics. Each NextFlex project call builds from and implements changes relative to past project calls, and all proposers should carefully read all sections of this guidebook to understand changes in proposal
development, required content, submission, evaluation, eligibility, and selection criteria.

Topics for PC 10.0 include:

  • Topic 10.1: Maturing and Derisking Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing Processes and Devices
  • Topic 10.2: AI/ML for Design, Manufacturing, and Qualification of Hybrid Electronics
  • Topic 10.3: Hybrid Electronics Platform Demonstrator
  • Topic 10.4: Additive Manufacturing and Repair of Electronics in the Defense Industrial Base
  • Topic 10.5: Platform Demonstrator for Reduced Life Cycle Costs and Improved DoD Readiness
  • Topic 10.6: Open Topic for “New Project Leads”

Bilateral Academic Research Initiative (BARI) Program – Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE)

DoD

Solicitation: HQ003425NFOEASD05

https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358555

Posted Date: March 14, 2025

Required White Papers Due: May 30, 2025 by 4:00 pm ET

Full Proposals by Invitation Only

This NFO is for the Bilateral Academic Research Initiative Pilot Program (BARI), which is jointly sponsored by the US Office of the Under-Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering (OUSD(R&E)), and the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) of the Republic of Korea (ROK). The BARI program addresses high risk basic research as an international collaboration. This research should attempt to provide the scientific foundation towards the development of future generations of robotics designs and concepts, via embodied intelligence. The goal of this program is to produce significant scientific breakthroughs and knowledge that will be critical steps in enabling revolutions in robotics technology and stimulate the emergence of new industries. Proposals that focus on incremental steps are not within the scope of this NFO.

Without a doubt, embodied intelligence can be of great potential benefit to the design of advanced robotics, allowing faster responses and considerably reducing the design complexity and energy resources. However, this also suggests that each case of embodiment leads to a unique robot design, since the process of designing the material, structure, circuit, and sensors must be repeated when the desired functionality and operation constraints are changed. It becomes desirable then to design the embodiment at the component level, and such that these components can be re-used in various robotic system designs, while being iteratively improved. Complex engineered systems (e.g., planes, trains and automobiles) are designed that way, an approach which provides the basis for rapid, low-cost and scalable development. However, that practice is currently based on “dumb” components1, with fixed and well-documented functionality and standardized interfaces. Components with embodied intelligence would then be a paradigm shift for robotics and new generations of complex machines.

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