The Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) FOA will create new workforce training opportunities in computer science for artificial intelligence and high-performance and scientific computing, quantum computing, and quantum networking as well as hands-on programming, data organization and cleaning, data visualization, and data science experiences for students and postdocs from underrepresented groups and at historically underrepresented institutions such as non-R1 institutions and/or MSIs. Webinar: January 31^st, 2 pm EST. Register here.

Formerly known as EPA’s State Environmental Justice Cooperative Agreement Program (SEJCA), this program has been renamed to better reflect the multiple entities eligible for the funding as well as the purpose of the program. The EJG2G program provides funding to governmental entities at the state, local, territorial and tribal level to support and/or create model government activities that lead to measurable environmental or public health results in communities disproportionately burdened by environmental harms and risks. These models should leverage or utilize existing resources or assets of state agencies to develop key tools and processes that integrate environmental justice considerations into governments and government programs at all levels.

EPA’s EJ Collaborative Problem-Solving Cooperative Agreement Program provides funding for eligible applicants for projects that address local environmental and public health issues within an affected community. The EJCPS Program assists recipients in building collaborative partnerships to help them understand and address environmental and public health concerns in their communities.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is now accepting applications for its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. Small businesses can apply for Phase I of funding with research proposals related to topics in cybersecurity, AI, critical infrastructure, modeling, and others.

Phase I awards are up to $150,000 for 5 months, followed by Phase III with up to $1,000,000 over 24 months.

The DHS SBIR Program Office encourages all small business concerns, including small disadvantaged, women-owned, veteran-owned, service-disabled veteran-owned, and socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns, with the capability to conduct research and development, and to commercialize the results of that research and development, to submit proposals in response to homeland security-related topic areas described in this Solicitation.

The DOE SC program in Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) hereby announces its interest in applications in the areas of Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Data Resources for fusion energy and plasma sciences. The goal of this FOA is to support multidisciplinary teams aiming to apply advanced and autonomous algorithms to address high-priority research opportunities across the FES program. Applicants are encouraged to propose research in new systems for managing, formatting, curating, and accessing experimental and simulation data, provided in publicly available databases. Of high programmatic importance are approaches
that support the realization of a fusion pilot plant on a decadal timescale

This FOA seeks applications with project teams ready to advance building energy
codes and other building efficiency policies within a particular region, state, or
local jurisdiction. To drive sustained improvements, the BIL emphasizes the
importance of strategic partnerships, which must include a state agency, and
may include other organizations, such as state or local building departments,
builders, contractors, architects, engineers, other design and construction
professionals, academia, research, trade organizations, consumer advocates,
regional energy efficiency organizations, and other stakeholder interests who
play an important role supporting the successful implementation of building
codes. Funding provided through this FOA is specifically designed to update
building energy codes and ensure the cost-effective implementation of these
updated codes at the state and local level.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) issued a $23 million funding opportunity announcement (FOA) that will drive innovation to decarbonize the entire life cycle of Water Resource Recovery Facilities (WRRFs). These facilities, which treat wastewater from public water systems, are among the country’s largest industrial electricity users with full lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on par with direct emissions from the food and beverage industry— one of the largest GHG-emitting industries in the United States. This FOA will accelerate research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) of technologies to lower GHG emissions from WRRFs to help decarbonize our nation’s water treatment sector and move the U.S. closer to a net-zero economy by 2050.

The Milkywire Climate Transformation Fund (CTF), launched in 2021, is a charitable fund that supports pioneering projects needed to reach global net zero. Our ambition is guided by an impact-first approach, meaning we are searching for solutions with the greatest potential long-term impact that actually reduce CO₂ emissions rather than focus on carbon compensation claims.

The DOE SC program in Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) hereby announces its interest in receiving new and renewal applications in Quantum Information Science (QIS). Responsive applications will propose research that could have a transformative impact on FES mission areas—including Fusion Science and Technology and Plasma Science and Technology—and / or advance QIS development enabled by FES-supported science. While fully recognizing the interdisciplinary and crosscutting nature of QIS, responsive applications will focus on areas consistent with the unique role of FES in this rapidly developing field.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has published a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for $1.5 billion in grant funding through the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) discretionary grant program for 2023. The popular program helps communities around the country carry out projects with significant local or regional impact. RAISE discretionary grants help project sponsors at the State and local levels, including municipalities, Tribal governments, counties, and others complete critical freight and passenger transportation infrastructure projects.

ASCR is interested in receiving proposals focusing on basic research in computer science that explores innovative approaches to creating distributed resilient systems for science. Such systems might be national or global in scale, linking geographically-distributed computing systems and scientific instruments, and might involve a large number of edge devices or sensors, but regardless, must manage computation and data in scalable and fault-tolerant manner. Important research challenges involve techniques for advanced middleware and operating and runtime systems, with this FOA targeting two research areas: 1) scalable system modeling, and 2) adaptive management and partitioning of resources. Advances in these areas will contribute to scaling-up our increasingly complex and interconnected scientific enterprise.