Current Funding Opportunities
External Opportunities
The CSE Data Science Initiative is constantly searching for funding opportunities that include a data science element. If you are aware of a current solicitation not listed here, please email us at [email protected]. Opportunities are listed in reverse order by due date. In general, this means that more recent postings will actually be lower down in the table. Dear Colleague Letters are listed in the second table since they often don't announce a new program with a specific due date, but refer people to existing programs and give a prefix that should be used in the proposal title. The second table also includes other solicitations that do not include a specific due date.
| Funding Agency | Due Date | Title | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA | Quarterly submission windows with decision dates in June, September, December, and March. See FAQ for details. | Academic Grant Program | There are three categories: Generative AI: Training and Model Development, Generative AI: Alignment and Inference, and Simulation and Modeling. Once an award letter is sent, access to cloud compute resources is granted within approximately two weeks. The ability to request letters of support for grant applications is available immediately. Hardware shipping timelines vary greatly based on product and geography. |
| NSF | Proposals accepted anytime | Chemical Evolution of the Solid Earth and Volcanology (CESEV) (NSF 25-516) | This is a new solicitation arising from a realignment of the Division of Earth Science’s disciplinary funding programs. This program aims to advance fundamental knowledge about the origin and evolution of our home planet including its core, mantle, and continental crust. The program encourages a wide range of laboratory, field, experimental, theoretical, and/or computational studies that explore the continuous high-temperature igneous and metamorphic geochemical and petrologic processes that shape the Earth. |
| NSF | Proposals accepted anytime | Life and Environments Through Time (LET) (NSF 25-517) | The Life and Environments through Time (LET) Program is part of the Division of Earth Sciences (EAR) within the Directorate for Geosciences (GEO). Projects may employ any combination of field, laboratory, and computational studies with observational, theoretical, or experimental approaches. EAR supports investigations of the evolution, processes, and properties of Earth through this and three other programs: Chemical Evolution of the Solid Earth and Volcanology (CESEV) (NSF 25-516), Structure and Physics of the Solid Earth (SPSE) (NSF 25-518), Water, Landscape, and Critical Zone Processes (WaLTZ) (NSF 25-519). |
| NSF | Proposals accepted anytime | Structure and Physics of the Solid Earth (SPSE) (NSF 25-518) | This is a new solicitation arising from a realignment of the Division of Earth Science’s disciplinary funding programs. It aims to advance fundamental knowledge about the ongoing dynamical processes over the age of the Earth that evolve the structure of planet Earth and underpin geohazards. Through laboratory, field, theoretical, and computational studies, the program encompasses a wide range of disciplines including structural geology, tectonics, and geophysics. |
| NSF | Proposals accepted anytime | Water, Landscape, and Critical Zone Processes (WaLTZ) (NSF 25-519) | This is a new solicitation arising from a realignment of the Division of Earth Science’s disciplinary funding programs. It supports research on the Earth’s near-surface environment and how that environment responds to change. The Program focuses on the complex interplay amongst and between hydrologic, geomorphic, and geochemical processes and how they regulate the structure and function of the Earth’s near surface. Projects may employ any combination of field, laboratory, and computational studies with observational, theoretical, or experimental approaches and can be contained within a single traditional research domain (e.g. hydrology, geomorphology, environmental geochemistry) or involve multiple domains. |
| ERDC | This announcement is continuously open; pre-proposals may be submitted and will be reviewed at any time throughout the year. | Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Issues Broad Agency Announcement | The ERDC is responsible for conducting research in the broad fields of hydraulics, dredging, coastal engineering, instrumentation, oceanography, remote sensing, geotechnical engineering, earthquake engineering, soil effects, vehicle mobility, self-contained munitions, military engineering, geophysics, pavements, protective structures, aquatic plants, water quality, dredged material, treatment of hazardous waste, wetlands, physical/mechanical/ chemical properties of snow and other frozen precipitation, infrastructure and environmental issues for installations, computer science, telecommunications management, energy, facilities maintenance, materials and structures, engineering processes, environmental processes, land and heritage conservation, and ecological processes. |
| DARPA | June 25, 2026 | Virtual-Integrated Twin for Autonomous Lifesaving (VITAL) (DARPA-PS-26-26) | The VITAL program will establish a foundation for causal, prediction-driven decision support in medicine, enabling clinicians and future autonomous systems to evaluate treatment options before they are applied. By defining when mechanistic digital twins, reduced-order models, and data-driven inference are reliable and actionable, VITAL will shift medical care from reactive assessment to anticipatory intervention. |
| ARPA-H | Solution Summary (Required) Due: June 25, 2026 Full Proposal Due: August 6, 2026 | IGoR: Intelligent Generator of Research (ARPA-H-SOL-26-155) | IGoR seeks teams with expertise in computational biology and mechanistic modeling, AI/ML orchestration and agentic systems, laboratory automation and robotics, experimental protocol standardization, distributed systems architecture, and human-centered interface design. Teams should include capabilities spanning disease biology, data engineering, and validated wet-lab experimentation across multiple modalities. |
| ARPA-H | Solution Summary (Required) Due: June 29, 2026 at 2:00PM ET Full Proposal Due: August 14, 2026 at 2:00PM | HEARING: Hearing Enhancement through ARtificially Intelligent NeurotechnoloGy (ARPA-H-SOL-26-154) | The HEARING (Hearing Enhancement through ARtificially Intelligent NeurotechnoloGy) program will advance three technical areas: intracortical device(s), dynamic sound modulation, and auditory read & write algorithms. ARPA-H encourages collaborations that integrate expertise across neuroscience, otology, biomedical engineering, microelectronics, machine learning, neuromodulation, clinical audiology, and regulatory science. |
| ARPA-H | Solution Summary (required) Due: August 12, 2026. Full Proposal Due: Anticipated Fall 2026. | REST (Restorative & health-Enhancing Sleep Time) (ARPA-H-SOL-26-159) | Proposers' Day (Washington, DC, also virtual) on July 13. Register for Proposer's Day by July 10. The REST (Restorative and health-Enhancing Sleep Time) program will advance two technical areas: measure and diagnosis sleep quality at-home with clinical fidelity, and control & treat to develop non-invasive, closed-loop systems with real-time interventions throughout the night. ARPA-H encourages collaborations that integrate expertise across sleep medicine, neuroscience, psychiatry, biomedical engineering, wearable and in-home biosensing, signal processing, machine learning, neuromodulation, clinical trials, and regulatory science. |
| NSF | September 1, 2026 Full Proposal: February 8, 2027. | Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 (Mid-scale RI-1) (NSF 24-598) | On Thursday, September 19, 2024, NSF will host a virtual town hall outreach webinar with information about the latest Mid-Scale RI-1 funding opportunity. |
| NASA | September 30, 2026 | According to their website, "NASA encourages the submission of unique and innovative proposals that will further the Agency’s mission. While the vast majority of proposals are solicited via a publicly-available NASA Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), a small number of unsolicited proposals that are not appropriate for submission in response to those NOFOs, and yet are still relevant to NASA, are reviewed and funded each year." | |
| NSF | October 6, 2026 October 6, 2027 | BRAIN Initiative: Theories, Models and Methods for Analysis of Complex Data from the Brain | The Theories, Models and Methods (TMM) program provides support for the development and validation of innovative and rigorous theories, models and methods as tools that will advance a quantitative and predictive understanding of brain function across multiple scales, including behavior. Priority will be given to projects that develop novel capabilities for analyzing, integrating, and interpreting the large-scale, complex data emerging from the BRAIN initiative and related efforts, which includes cell-type specific physiological, anatomical, connectivity, and behavioral data. Applications to this NOFO should focus on the development of fundamentally new or significantly advanced theories of brain function; mechanistic and/or predictive models of neural circuit activity and behavior grounded in empirical data; and/or novel computational or statistical methods for analyzing neural and behavioral datasets. |
| NSF | March 4, 2029 | Mathematical Sciences Research Institutes (NSF 23-606) | |
| DOD | Rolling deadlines, open through May 31, 2029. | Fundamental AI Research (W519TC-25-S-0001) | The Army Artificial Intelligence Integration Center (AI2C) is seeking artificial intelligence research and development whitepapers and proposals in support of new technologies and translational research-based approaches that support the identification, alignment, and exploitation of basic, applied, and advanced research. |
| NSF | This solicitation has been archived. Annually, second Friday in September. | Community Infrastructure for Research in CISE (CIRC) (NSF 23-589) | 2023 program solicitation |
| NSF | This solicitation has been archived. February 24, 2025 | Experiential Learning for Emerging and Novel Technologies (ExLENT) (NSF 25-511) | 2024 program solicitation |
| NSF | This solicitation has been archived. Target dates for Planning Grant preliminary proposals are the second Wednesdays in September and March. Full proposal target dates are the second Wednesdays of December and June. | Dear Colleague Letter: NSF (GEO and SBE) Directorates and NOAA Call for IUCRC (Industry-University Cooperative Research Center) Proposals for Modeling of Catastrophic Impacts and Risk Assessment Due to Climate Change (NSF 23-106) | See the IUCRC program solicitation for more details. |
Opportunities With No Due Date Listed
| Funding Agency | Due Date | Title | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| NSF | Relevant proposals should be submitted to an existing BIO program, according to that program's solicitation and submission guidelines. | Dear Colleague Letter: Advancing Research at the intersection of Biology and Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) (NSF 24-131) | "To promote research that benefits from AI/ML and reduces barriers to its use in the biological sciences, BIO welcomes proposals that incorporate or advance AI/ML approaches.... Proposals that advance both biological discovery and AI/ML research are especially encouraged." |
| NSF | Varies with program | Dear Colleague Letter: Using Long-Term Research Associated Data (ULTRA-Data) (NSF 24-081) | "NSF seeks to stimulate and encourage the use and reuse of data from environmental time series research to improve generalizable understanding in fields including (but not limited to) ecology, organismal evolution/adaptation, geoscience, and oceanography |
| Cisco | Funding will be available no sooner than August, when the Cisco fiscal year starts. If you would like to submit a proposal, contact Leza Besemann at [email protected] to submit a proposal directly to Cisco. | Security for Gen AI (RFP-24-03) | Provide a 3-5 sentence description of your project idea, contact information and link to your bio page or website. Based on the short description of the project idea, Cisco will decide if they want you to submit a full proposal. |
| Cisco | Funding will be available no sooner than August, when the Cisco fiscal year starts. If you would like to submit a proposal, contact Leza Besemann at [email protected] to submit a proposal directly to Cisco. | Machine Unlearning: Model-Data Co-Design (RFP-24-04) | Provide a 3-5 sentence description of your project idea, contact information and link to your bio page or website. Based on the short description of the project idea, Cisco will decide if they want you to submit a full proposal. |
| Cisco | Funding will be available no sooner than August, when the Cisco fiscal year starts. If you would like to submit a proposal, contact Leza Besemann at [email protected] to submit a proposal directly to Cisco. | Enhancing Factuality and Reasoning in Generative AI Models (RFP-24-05) | Provide a 3-5 sentence description of your project idea, contact information and link to your bio page or website. Based on the short description of the project idea, Cisco will decide if they want you to submit a full proposal. |
| Cisco | Funding will be available no sooner than August, when the Cisco fiscal year starts. If you would like to submit a proposal, contact Leza Besemann at [email protected] to submit a proposal directly to Cisco. | Distributed Systems (RFP-24-06) | Provide a 3-5 sentence description of your project idea, contact information and link to your bio page or website. Based on the short description of the project idea, Cisco will decide if they want you to submit a full proposal. |
| Cisco | Funding will be available no sooner than August, when the Cisco fiscal year starts. If you would like to submit a proposal, contact Leza Besemann at [email protected] to submit a proposal directly to Cisco. | LLM-Based Autonomous Agents and Agentic Systems (RFP-24-07) | Provide a 3-5 sentence description of your project idea, contact information and link to your bio page or website. Based on the short description of the project idea, Cisco will decide if they want you to submit a full proposal. |
| Cisco | Funding will be available no sooner than August, when the Cisco fiscal year starts. If you would like to submit a proposal, contact Leza Besemann at [email protected] to submit a proposal directly to Cisco. | Gen AI Applications in Security (RFP-24-08) | Provide a 3-5 sentence description of your project idea, contact information and link to your bio page or website. Based on the short description of the project idea, Cisco will decide if they want you to submit a full proposal. |
| NSF | Proposals accepted anytime | Plant Genome Research Program (NSF 24-547) | |
| NSF | See specific programs listed in DCL. | Dear Colleague Letter: Leveraging Innovations From Evolution (LIFE) (NSF 24-049) | |
| NSF | Proposals submitted after April 30, 2024, will be considered in FY 2025. | Dear Colleague Letter: Funding Opportunities for Engineering Research to Achieve Net-Zero Climate Goals by 2050 (NSF 24-045) | "With this Dear Colleague Letter, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) encourages the submission of research and education proposals related to Net-Zero Climate Goals, including innovations to create a Circular Economy." |
| NSF | Proposals submitted after April 30, 2024, will be considered for fiscal year 2025. | Dear Colleague Letter: Funding Opportunities for Engineering Research in Artificial Intelligence (NSF 24-039) | Research and education proposals related to Artificial Intelligence as an Emerging Industry. |
| NSF | Not stated | Dear Colleague Letter: Global Centers Program Competition (NSF 24-023) | Letter to inform people of the next round of the Global Centers Program anticipated to be in FY2024. |
| NSF | Not stated | Arctic System Science; Arctic Observing Network; Polar Cyberinfrastructure; Arctic Research Coordination and Policy Support (NSF 23-572) | Recurring. |
| NSF | Not stated | Dear Colleague Letter: Special Guidelines for Submitting Collaborative Proposals under the U.S. NSF/GEO – DFG/Geosciences Lead Agency Opportunity on collaborative Research on Climate Change (NSF 23-113) | DFG is the German Research Foundation. |
| NSF | Not stated | Dear Colleague Letter: Future Proofing Plants to a Changing Climate (NSF 23-096) | |
| NSF | Varies with specific program. | Dear Colleague Letter: Build a Resilient Planet (NSF 24-022) | "Geoscience research is integral to addressing exigent issues facing our Nation and the world. The magnitude of the challenges that underpin this initiative demands an integrated approach to engage scientists and engineers across disciplines..." |