ITECS News – December 29, 2011

I want to wish you a happy, healthy and successful New Year.

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow”

-        Albert Einstein

Best,

Susan Ward

President, ITECS

Navy Solicitations – December 2011

Research Areas of Upper Air Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Remote Geo-Sensing – The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) conducts research in the fields of astronomy and astrophysics, solar terrestrial physics, and atmospheric science of both the earth and other planets in the solar system.  Satellites, rockets and ground-based facilities are used to study the behavior of the ionosphere and the upper, middle, and lower atmospheres.  In order to carry out such investigations, research and development is needed for satellite instrumentation, data analysis, remote sensing methods, first principles modeling of atmospheric processes, supporting calibration/validation activities, and supporting missile defense modeling and simulation systems development. Read more

USDA Solicitations – December 2011

Distance Education Grants Program for Institutions of Higher Education in Insular Areas (DEG) – NIFA announces the availability of grant funds and requests applications for the Distance Education Grants Program for Institutions of Higher Education in Insular Areas (DEG) for fiscal year (FY) 2012. This program is designed to strengthen the capacity of Institutions of Higher Education in Insular Areas to carry out resident instruction, curriculum, and teaching programs in the food and agricultural sciences through distance education technology. Read more

USAID Solicitations – December 2011

GDA APS Addendum for BFS – Climate Resilient Cereals – Through this Addendum to the FY2011 Global Development Alliance (GDA) Annual Program Statement (APS) USAID/Bureau for Food Security (BFS), Research Division is making a special call for the submission of concept papers related to the Feed the Future (FTF) Initiative’s Global Hunger and Food Security Research Strategy. The specific objective(s) are to: 1) Develop new climate resilient cereal varieties with enhanced abiotic stress tolerance and improved yield. Approaches using advanced molecular tools are especially encouraged, as are proposals concerning wheat as a target crop or heat tolerance as a target trait; Read more

NSF Solicitations – December 2011

Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) – To address ecological questions that cannot be resolved with short-term observations or experiments, NSF established the Long Term Ecological Research Program (LTER) in 1980.Three unique components differentiate LTER research from projects supported by other NSF programs: 1) the research is located at specific sites chosen to represent major ecosystem types or natural biomes; 2) it emphasizes the study of phenomena over long periods of time, based upon data collection in five core areas; and 3) projects include significant integrative, cross-site, network-wide research. Read more

DARPA Solicitations – December 2011

Phoenix Technologies – The goal of the Phoenix program is to develop and demonstrate technologies to cooperatively harvest and re-use valuable components from retired, non-operating satellites in geosynchronous orbit (GEO) and demonstrate the ability to create new space systems at greatly reduced cost. Phoenix seeks to demonstrate around-the-clock, globally persistent communication capability for warfighters more economically, by robotically removing and re-using GEO-based space apertures and antennas from decommissioned satellites in the graveyard or disposal orbit. Read more

NIH Solicitations – December 2011

Small Grants for Behavioral Research in Cancer Control (R03) — This FOA, issued by the NCI, invites investigator-initiated Small Research Grant (R03) applications for research projects that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources in behavioral research in cancer prevention and control. Read more

Air Force Solicitations – December 2011

Pre-solicitation: Commercially Hosted InfraRed Payload (CHIRP) Replenishment (aka CHIRP+) — XR and the Infrared Systems Directorate (IS) are planning to hold an industry day in the second half of January 2012 to communicate to industry SMC’s plan to procure up to three wide-field-of-view (WFOV), overhead persistent infrared (OPIR) sensors to be launched as hosted payloads or free-flier rideshares. XR and IS will also present to industry how these sensors will fit into IS’s OPIR architecture and discuss future plans for integrating, launching and operating these sensors. Read more

ITECS News – December 15, 2011

I want to thank everyone for their input on last week’s newsletter regarding the consolation of Department of Energy Labs. As expected, we had varied responses. Some see consolidation as a way to pool resources and increase efficiency and technology alignment. Others think that centralization, although it would be more efficient, will numb creativity. In other news, this week the House of Representatives and the Senate resolved a three-year battle over the future of the Small Business Innovation Research program and the Small Business Technology Transfer program. Read more

NRC Solicitations – December 2011

Sources Sought for Development of Computational Framework for the xLPR Version 2.0 Probabilistic Fracture Mechanics Code – The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is conducting a market survey and analysis to determine the range of available sources that exist and assess their capabilities to potentially assist the NRC with producing the computational framework for the xLPR Version 2.0 code using the GoldSim software. Read more

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