Featured Opportunity – July 21, 2010

PV Technology Incubator – The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has issued a Solicitation for Letters of Interest (LOIs) to U.S. Small Businesses for the development of prototype photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules. The PV Technology Incubator project represents a significant component of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) business strategy of partnering with U.S. industry to accelerate commercialization of photovoltaic system research and development (R&D) to meet aggressive cost and installed capacity goals. The PV Technology Incubator supports the goals of the DOE Solar Energy Technologies Program (SETP), which aggressively funds a diverse set of PV technologies that will help solar electricity achieve high penetration across the United States and grid parity by 2015. This is accomplished by helping promising technologies take the first step towards crossing the barriers to commercialization. Read more

NASA Solicitations – July 2010

Research and Technology Development to Support Crew Health and Performance in Space Exploration Missions – The goal of the HRP is to provide human health and performance countermeasures, knowledge, technologies, and tools to enable safe, reliable, and productive human space exploration. The scope of this goal includes both the successful completion of exploration missions and the preservation of astronaut health over the life of the astronaut. Specific objectives in support of this goal are:  1) Quantification of the crew health and performance risks associated with human spaceflight for the various exploration missions; 2) Development of countermeasures to provide mission planners and system developers with strategies for mitigating crew health and performance risks; 3) Development of technologies to provide mission planners and system developers with strategies for monitoring and mitigating crew health and performance risks.  This NRA solicits research for NASA and the NSBRI that addresses at least one of these objectives.  Award Ceiling: $450K/yr. Read more

EPA Solicitations – July 2010

Environmental Research Apprenticeship Program for Pre-Baccalaureate College Students – This Request for Applications (RFA) seeks institutions of higher education and other non-profit organizations to implement an apprenticeship program for up to 15 pre-baccalaureate college students. This program provides undergraduate students with year-round research opportunities that allow students to relate hands-on research experience with formal academic studies. It also provides invaluable experience regarding the relevance of academic training to the conduct of research. It is intended that the research experience be gained through a mentoring relationship with a Senior Ground Water and Ecosystem Restoration Division (GWERD) scientist working in a fully operational federal research laboratory. This program provides direct benefit to the academic community and the general public by increasing both the effectiveness and pool of available environmental scientists for the future.  Total Funding: $500K. Read more

Navy Solicitations – July 2010

Navy Platform Fire Protection R&D – The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has a requirement for fire protection research and development for the Navy surface ships, submarines, aircraft and shore facility applications in the following task areas: 1) Fire extinguishing Agents/Delivery Systems; 2) Fire Hazard Analysis/Passive Fire Safety; 3) Small and Large Scale Fire Tests; 4) Fire Fighting Doctrine Development.  Work is to be performed on-site at the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC and its Chesapeake Beach, MD facility aboard the ex-USS Shadwell in Mobile, AL and other government facilities as required.  The Government anticipates a 12-month period of performance with four Options that will extend the period of performance for an additional 12 months each, if exercised.  The Government anticipates an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) type contract with Cost Plus Fixed Fee Orders as a result from the solicitation. Read more

NAS Solicitations – July 2010

Design and Implement a System for Archiving and Disseminating Data for SHRP 2 – To address the challenges of moving people and goods efficiently and safely on the nation’s highways, Congress has created the second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2). SHRP 2 is a targeted, short-term research program carried out through competitively awarded contracts to qualified researchers in the academic, private, and public sectors.  The major objective of SHRP 2 Reliability research is to greatly improve the reliability of highway travel times by reducing the frequency and effects of events that cause travel times to fluctuate in an unpredictable manner. The results of the research program should help local, state, and national agencies reduce travel time variability for travelers and shippers.  Total Funding: $1.475M.  Proposal Due Date: September 27, 2010.

Posted Date: July 27, 2010

Solicitation Number: SHRP2_L13A

NIH Solicitations – July 2010

Ancillary Studies to the ACCORD Clinical Trial or the ACCORD Follow-on Study (R01) – This FOA issued by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute and National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease, National Institutes of Health, encourages Research Project Grant (R01) applications from institutions/ organizations that propose studies that either explore mechanisms of outcomes or other clinical measures using the stored biospecimens from the Action to Control Cardiovascular Disease (ACCORD) participants, or that propose studies to collect new observational data in the ACCORD follow-up study. Read more

NSF Solicitations – July 2010

Computational Mathematics – Supports mathematical research in areas of science where computation plays a central and essential role, emphasizing design, analysis, and implementation of numerical methods and algorithms, and symbolic methods.  The prominence of computation with analysis of the computational approach in the research is a hallmark of the program.  Proposals ranging from single-investigator projects that develop and analyze innovative computational methods to interdisciplinary team projects that not only create and analyze new mathematical and computational techniques but also use/implement them to model, study, and solve important application problems are encouraged. Read more

DOE Solicitations – July 2010

ARPA-E Scientific, Engineering, Technical, Professional, Financial, and Administrative Support Services – The Advanced Research Project Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) has a requirement for world-class scientific, engineering, technical, professional, financial, and administrative support services to assist ARPA-E in its mission to enhance U.S. energy and economic security and maintain U.S. technological leadership in developing and deploying advanced energy foster research and development of transformational energy-related technologies.  The respondent must provide world-class scientific, engineering, and technical support services to ARPA-E in the following areas: Strategic Planning for Technology Programs / Activities, Application Evaluation and Selection Support Services, Financial Assistance Award Negotiation Support Services, Project Management Support Services, Technology Transfer, Outreach, and Commercialization Support Services, and Other Scientific, Engineering, and Technical Support Services. Read more

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