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NASA ROSES 2024: Mentorship and Opportunities in STEM with Academic Institutions for Community Success (MOSAICS) Seed Funding, NNH24ZDA001N-MSF. CFDA # 43.001. $1,000,000 - $2,000,000 per year. Proposals Due: On an ongoing basis until March 25, 2025. Those submitted by September 30, 2024 will be reviewed in Winter 2025, with anticipated award date in March 2025.

The Mentorship and Opportunities in STEM with Academic Institutions for Community Success (MOSAICS) Program - formerly known as the Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Bridge Program - is a new initiative managed by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate with multiple elements to support engagement and partnering between faculty and students at under-resourced institutions (URIs) to carry out NASA-relevant research. Through the MOSAICS Seed Funding (MSF) opportunity, SMD aims to facilitate new and expand ongoing collaborations between students and faculty at URIs and researchers at NASA Centers or Facilities that could be expected to grow into collaborations well-positioned to submit future proposals.

This MSF element is intended as a one- or two-year on-ramp to prepare faculty to successfully propose to a future F.18 "MOSAICS Five-Year Collaboration Awards" program element, formerly known as the SMD Bridge Program. This MSF element funds faculty seeking to create new connections or strengthen their existing collaborations with NASA researchers. A future ROSES-2024 F.18 "MOSAICS Five Year Collaboration Awards" program element will solicit proposals for up to five years of funding to support longer-term research and mentoring collaborations between scientists and engineers at NASA Centers or Facilities and faculty at institutions historically underfunded by NASA.

The primary high-level goal of MOSAICS is to develop sustainable collaborations between NASA Centers or Facilities and under-resourced institutions (URIs), which include many Minority-serving Institutions (MSIs) — such as Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), Primarily Black Institutions (PBIs), and Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) — as well as Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs) and Community Colleges. MSF proposals are expected to be led by faculty at URIs and co-written with a NASA partner. These proposals must include paid research positions for the students at these institutions on research relevant to NASA SMD. Proposals for MSF must describe the science, the collaboration between the institution and NASA, impacts of the proposed work, and contain a plan for how the students will be mentored and trained during their time working with NASA.

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DoD Artificial Intelligence Quantified (AIQ), #HR001124S0029. CFDA # 12.910. Abstracts Due: 06/25/2024. Full Proposals Due: 8/13/24, 12:00pm (by invitation only).

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative proposals in the technical areas of assessing and understanding the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) to enable mathematical guarantees on performance of generative AI. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems. Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice.

AIQ brings together two Technical Areas (TAs) and a government team to test the program

hypothesis. The goal of TA1 is to provide rigorous foundations for understanding and

guaranteeing capabilities across levels; teams proposing for TA1 are expected to be led by

individuals with deep technical expertise, such as pure or applied mathematics, theoretical

computer science, or statistics, or other relevant expertise and demonstrate relevance to AI. The goal of TA2 is to develop methods for evaluating AI models, integrating and evaluating TA1 results at scale using appropriate research datasets; teams proposing for TA2 are expected to comprise computational, cognitive, and/or behavioral scientists with expertise in AI evaluation.

All responsible sources capable of satisfying the Government's needs may submit a proposal that shall be considered by DARPA.

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NIH Resource-Related Research Projects for Development of Animal Models and Related Materials (R24 Clinical Trials Not-Allowed), #RFA-OD-22-013. CFDA #93.351. Application Deadline: 09/25/2024

The Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (ORIP) encourages grant applications aimed at developing, characterizing or improving animal models of human diseases; improving access to information about or generated from the use of animal models of human disease; or improving diagnosis and control of diseases of laboratory animals. The animal models, related materials, or technological tools developed must be broadly applicable to the scientific interests of two or more NIH Institutes or Centers (ICs) and must evaluate diseases and processes that impact multiple body systems in order to align with the ORIP’s NIH-wide mission and programs. Applications must describe the need for and the potential impact of the proposed resources on the research community across a range of scientific disciplines supported by multiple NIH ICs. Applications to develop models that relate strictly to a specific disease or a select area of research or that do not have a broad impact on the NIH-wide research community will not be considered acceptable. Projects that predominantly address the research interests of one NIH IC but are only peripherally related to the research interests of other ICs will also not be acceptable for this funding opportunity announcement (FOA).

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