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Funding Opportunities and Announcements
Funding Opportunities
ROSES-2021
- The 2021 version of Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES-21) was posted at https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2021 on or about February 14, 2021.
- Table 2 with all program elements organized by due date was posted at https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2021table2
- Table 3 with all program elements organized by subject matter was posted at https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2021table3
- The FAQ on what's new in ROSES-2021 was posted at https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/faqs/#1 and links to slides and a recording of a What's new in ROSES talk may be found in the Library under "Links".
- We have a few ways for proposers to keep up to date with changes to ROSES after release. You are encouraged to:
- Subscribe to the SMD NSPIRES mailing lists (by logging in at https://nspires.nasaprs.com and checking the appropriate boxes under Account Management and Email Subscriptions),
- Bookmark the ROSES-2021 blog for clarifications, corrections and amendments at https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/grant-solicitations/roses-2021/ and
- Subscribe to the relevant ROSES-2021 due date Google calendars. Instructions have been posted at https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/library-and-useful-links or you may follow this link to download the PDF How to Subscribe to the ROSES-2021 Due Date Calendars.
SALMON-3 AO
The Third Stand Alone Missions of Opportunity Notice (SALMON-3 = NNH17ZDA004O) Announcement of Opportunity (AO) is an omnibus, meaning it hosts individual flight opportunities each with its own topic and due date. The Table of SALMON-3 PEA Due Dates has hypertext links to each program element appendix (PEA) in SALMON-3.
DRAFT EVI-6 Released
Prospective Bidders Web Conference: 1-3 p.m. Eastern Time
Comments Due: December 1, 2021
The full Draft PEA text can be found at: https://go.nasa.gov/3AWJ0QT
Earth Venture Instrument-6 (EVI-6) will solicit proposals for complete PI-led science investigations that are based on one or more (a) Class D space-based instruments or (b) Class D CubeSats. The selected EVI-6 investigations will conduct innovative research that addresses pressing Earth system science questions.
The Cost Cap on the PI-Managed Mission Cost for an EVI-6 investigation estimate is $37M in Fiscal Year 2024 dollars with a possibility of an additional request of up to $5.3M for a Science Enhancement Option. NASA expects to select one or more Class D Instrument and/or Class D CubeSat Investigations based on funding availability at the time of selection.
The full Draft PEA text can be found at: https://go.nasa.gov/3AWJ0QT
The time frame for the solicitation is estimated to be:
Release of Draft EVI-6 PEA: October 26, 2021
Prospective Bidders Web Conference: November 12, 2021 (1-3 p.m. ET)
Comment Period Closes: December 1, 2021 (11:59 p.m. ET)
Release of Final EVI-6 PEA: January-February 2022 (target)
Preproposal Web Conference: ~2 to 3 weeks after Final PEA release
Mandatory Notice of Intent deadline: ~5 weeks after Final PEA release (11:59 p.m. ET)
Proposal deadline: ~3 to 4 months after Final PEA release (11:59 p.m. ET)
Further information will be posted on the EVI-6 Acquisition Homepage at https://essp.larc.nasa.gov/EVI-6/ as it becomes available. Individuals should consult existing EVI-6 questions and answers at https://essp.larc.nasa.gov/EVI-6/evi-6_qas.html in case a clarification has already been provided.
Questions and other comments on the Draft EVI-6 PEA may be addressed to Dr. Hank Margolis, EVI-6 Program Scientist, at [email protected] with the subject line "EVI-6 Draft PEA.” Questions and Answers will be posted on the EVI-6 Q&As section of the EVI-6 Acquisition Homepage. Anonymity of the authors of all questions will be preserved.
Future Solicitations
You may download the current planning list of SMD Solicitations (NRAs and AOs) as a PDF from the SOMA web page. ROSES is released each year on or about February 14th. Planned program elements of ROSES are listed in the ROSES tables of due dates as 'TBD' and hypertext links from each title in the table of due dates connects to the NSPIRES page for that program element with a summary and point of contact.
Delay of New Frontiers to June 2027
Estimated Release of draft AO ………….…. October 2023 (target)
Estimated Release of final AO ……..…….... October 2024 (target)
Estimated Proposal due date …………........ 90 days after AO release
Community announcement NNH20ZDA016L notified potential proposers of the decision to delay the release of the next New Frontiers AO. The new target is no later than fall 2024 for the release of the final AO. This is a delay of approximately two years compared to the November 5, 2020 announced target date of October 2022 that was posted on both on beta.SAM.gov as a "special notice" and as a community announcement on NSPIRES.
The launch date for Dragonfly, the fourth mission in the New Frontiers Program, has been delayed to June 2027. This delay of the Dragonfly launch date is not a reflection on the progress and performance of the Dragonfly project. Rather, the delays are driven by other missions being in peak development and COVID-related challenges in the broader Planetary Science Division portfolio. The updated AO schedule estimate allows selection of the fifth New Frontiers mission at around the time of Dragonfly’s launch, thereby avoiding the budget strain of having two New Frontiers missions in development at the same time.
The new AO release date places the fifth New Frontiers mission firmly in the time period being deliberated upon by the ongoing planetary science decadal survey. NASA SMD intends to use the results of this decadal survey, expected in early 2022, to guide the New Frontiers 5 AO.
NASA has not approved the issuance of the New Frontiers AO and this notification does not obligate NASA to issue the AO and solicit proposals. Any costs incurred by prospective investigators in preparing submissions in response to this third notification or the planned Draft NF5 AO are incurred completely at the submitter's own risk.
Further information will be posted on the New Frontiers Program Acquisition Page at https://newfrontiers.larc.nasa.gov/NF5/ as it becomes available. Address questions and comments on this third community notice to Dr. Curt Niebur at [email protected].
Community Announcements
Grants Innovation Exchange
New Unique Entity ID (SAM) – A New Requirement for Proposers
Wednesday, January 12 at 12pm EST
This session targeted to grantee organizations, will feature updates on the new System for Award Management (SAM) Unique Entity ID, which will become a requirement on April 4, 2022. They will walk through everything a recipient of Federal awards needs to know in preparation for the transition, including a demo of how to request a new Unique Entity ID (SAM).
By April 4, 2022, the Federal government will transition away from the use of the DUNS Number and toward the new Unique Entity ID as the primary means of entity identification for Federal awards government-wide. If you are registered in SAM.gov, you’ve already been assigned a new Unique Entity ID! It’s viewable in your SAM.gov entity registration record. Go to fsd.gov and select the green Help on UEI Transition button to learn more.
Registration link: https:/uei-for-recipients.eventbrite.com
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Zoom Webinar.
To view recordings of previous sessions, please visit https:/www.cfo.gov/financial-assistance/resources/innovation-exchanges.html
Heliophysics Data Environment RFI
Response Date: January 31, 2022
The Heliophysics Division (HPD) seeks information and community feedback on the current and future needs for NASA’s Heliophysics data, and associated archives, tools, models, and resources. This information will be used to inform NASA’s restructuring, expansion, and evolution of the Heliophysics data archiving infrastructure, currently known as the Heliophysics Data Environment (HPDE) located at https://hpde.gsfc.nasa.gov.
For the full text of the RFI and response instructions, visit https://go.nasa.gov/3DxpHPI. Responses must be submitted via NSPIRES. Questions and comments concerning this RFI may be sent to one or both email addresses listed below with the subject line: "NASA HPDE RFI Question/Clarification" no later than 11:59 Eastern time on January 21, 2022.
Heather Futrell: [email protected]
Patrick Koehn: [email protected]
SPD-41: Scientific Information policy for the Science Mission Directorate
Data, software, and publications produced as part of SMD awards are a significant public investment and should be made publicly available. To provide contextual guidance to proposers, awardees and other members of our communities, SMD has created SPD-41: The Scientific Information Policy, based on recommendations from SMD's Strategy for Data Management and Computing for Groundbreaking Science 2019-2024. This version includes our current understanding of the Federal guidance, NASA policy, and best practices currently incorporated into or applicable to our programs.
A link to SPD-41 and other documents are now available on SMD's Science Information Policy webpage. SMD will be releasing a draft update to SPD-41 that incorporates more recent policy directives, recommendations from National Academy and NASA SMD community studies, and best practices from the community.
To collect feedback on the implementation of SPD-41, SMD plans to release an RFI on this topic by the end of October. In addition, SMD will hold a virtual community townhall on this topic. Until response dates for the RFI and townhall are released, please email any questions/comments to [email protected]. All questions will be responded to, either individually or on the Scientific Information Policy Frequently Asked Questions page.
Approval to Exceed GSA Lodging for LPSC 2022
A waiver for lodging for grantees attending The Lunar and Planetary Science Conference on March 7-11, 2022 has been posted on the letters from SARA page.
Information on Future Portal for Archiving NASA-funded Accepted Manuscripts
The NASA Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Program is developing an external submission portal for NASA-funded investigators to submit Accepted Manuscripts and other STI products. The portal is expected to be available later this summer.
The external portal will be used in place of the National Institutes of Health Manuscripts System (NIHMS), for grant and cooperative agreement recipients. The external portal will provide a more direct and streamlined Accepted Manuscript submission process for recipients. The STI Program will send communications prior to the start date with instructions and reminders.
As part of this transition, an information page about the new portal is available on the STI Program website which will be updated throughout the process: https://sti.nasa.gov/new-external-submission-portal/.
The STI Program invites comments and questions about this new external manuscript submission portal via the Research Access Help Desk at https://sti.nasa.gov/sti-contact-form/?RequestType=ResearchAccess.
Dual-Anonymous Peer Review
In our "ROSES" research solicitation we have expanded the use of dual-anonymous peer review in which, not only are proposers not told the identity their reviewers, the reviewers are not told the identity of the proposers (until after they have evaluated the scientific merit of all of the anonymized proposals). To learn more about dual-anonymous peer review see https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/dual-anonymous-peer-review.
No Due Dates?
In our "ROSES" research solicitation we have expanded the number of programs with no fixed due date. Starting in ROSES-2021, proposals to seven programs in planetary science may be submitted at any time without any preliminary statement such as a Notice of Intent or Step-1 proposal. For more information see https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/NoDD.
Need Advice about ROSES and proposal writing?
On the library and useful links page we have resources that may be useful to those who are new to proposing to ROSES: Links to youtube versions of presentations by Max Bernstein (NASA HQ) and Christina Richey (JPL) about proposal writing. Both the video of Dr. Richey (thanks to the SETI Institute) and the video of Max Bernstein (thanks to NASA Ames Research Center). Other information that maybe useful to early career/ potential new PIs may be found at https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/new-pi-resources.
