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The Nevada NASA EPSCoR program requests Letters of Interest (LOI) and Proposals for the National NASA EPSCoR Rapid Response Research Cooperative Agreement Notice (CAN).
NOTE: An amendment to the NASA EPSCoR Rapid Response Research (RRR) Cooperative Agreement Notice (CAN) solicitation was just released by the National NASA EPSCoR Office. Two additional topics (22 and 23) have been added to the list of research topics PIs may respond to. Please read the updated solicitation for more information.
The National NASA EPSCoR Program has announced a new solicitation entitled “Rapid Response Research” (RRR) program. The goal of this effort is to develop close collaborations among NASA, industry and university faculty to solve specific current NASA research challenges. It is anticipated that approximately 20 research proposals that will not exceed $100,000 each for a one-year project duration will be awarded to address a subset of the NASA topics listed in the National solicitation Appendices (attached). Each jurisdiction may submit one proposal per NASA science office division (note: this is different from previous years), i.e., Nevada may submit, through the NV NASA EPSCoR Office, up to 9 proposals, but only one for each science office division addressing one of the research topics for that office division. We are therefore requesting that any NSHE faculty member interested in submitting a proposal first submit a letter of interest; see information below. If there are multiple faculty interested in a common topic area or multiple topic areas within one NASA science office division, we will request that the faculty consider collaborating on a single proposal. If collaboration is not an option, the NV NASA EPSCoR Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) will review the letters of interest and select the proposal(s) that will be submitted to the National solicitation.
Eligibility: Faculty at NSHE institutions, particularly junior faculty, women, and members of other underrepresented populations are encouraged to apply. Faculty who have a current National NASA EPSCoR Research CAN project are not eligible to apply while their project is on-going. There is no requirement that Science PIs be U.S. citizens, however, foreign nationals (i.e., non-U.S. citizens who do not have a green card) will likely not be permitted access to NASA Centers. This may or may not be important to the research being proposed.
Funding: The NASA EPSCoR RRR CAN will provide an award of $100,000 total for a one-year project period with no match requirement. The federally negotiated indirect cost recovery (ICR) rate for each NSHE institution must be included in the budget as well as the NSHE EPSCoR/SPO ICR rate.
Please read the full SOLICITATION for all relevant details. *Download PDF file to view "paperclipped" attachments.
Webinar about this solicitation will be held November 12, 2020 at 12 pm PT. Use this Microsoft Teams link to attend: JOIN THE MEETING
STEP 1 – Submit Letter of Interest (LOI) Online: Due November 30, 2020 5:00 pm PT. CLICK HERE to submit LOI.
STEP 2 – Submit Proposal Online: Only once your LOI has been approved to move forward.
Proposal Due: Selected PIs will submit proposals to the NSHE SPO/EPSCOR Office no later than January 12, 2021, 5:00 pm PT.