Past External Funding Opportunities
These funding opportunities have passed, but you might find it useful to browse them to identify trends. Also, some of these are recurring opportunities (e.g., annual, every other year, every third year, etc.).
| Funding Agency | Due Date | Title | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| DoD AFRL | Suggested deadline for FY2026: November 30, 2025 | Advanced Tracking Architecture Using AI (ATA-AI) | Seeking research to design, develop, test, evaluate, and deliver innovative technologies and techniques for Next Generation Target Tracking architectures, which exploit a wide array of data sources and leverage the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Machine Inferencing (MI) algorithms in a High Performance Computing (HPC) enabled framework. ARA which is open and effective until 12 July 2029. Only white papers will be accepted as initial submissions; formal proposals will be accepted by invitation only. Future suggested submission dates: November 30, 2026 (also 2027 and 2028). |
| NSF | November 20, 2025 | NSF Test Bed: Toward a Network of Programmable Cloud Laboratories (NSF PCL Test Bed) (NSF 25-541) | Supports the development and operation of a national network of AI-powered, remotely accessible laboratories to accelerate scientific discovery, enhance reproducibility and improve access to advanced research tools in science and engineering. |
| ARPA-H | Required solution summary: October 31 Full proposal deadline: December 19. | Treating Hereditary Rare Diseases with In Vivo Precision Genetic Medicines (THRIVE) | This program "aims to make personalized and affordable cures available to all rare disease patients." View the recording of Proposers' Day. |
| NSF | October 3, 2025, and annually thereafter |
| This interagency solicitation is a collaboration between NSF and the NIH. The Smart Health program supports innovative, high-risk/high-reward research with the promise of disruptive transformations in biomedical and public health research, which can only be achieved by well-coordinated, convergent, and interdisciplinary approaches that draw from multiple domains of computer and information science, engineering, mathematical sciences and the biomedical, social, behavioral, and economic sciences. Therefore, the work to be funded by this solicitation must make fundamental scientific or engineering contributions to two or more disciplines, such as computer or information sciences, engineering, mathematical sciences, statistics, social, behavioral, or cognitive sciences to improve fundamental understanding of human biological, biomedical, public health and/or health-related processes and address a key health problem. |
| USDA-NIFA-AFRI | Dates depend on specific program | Agriculture and Food Research Initiative - Foundational and Applied Science Program | Supports grants in six AFRI priority areas to advance knowledge in both fundamental and applied sciences important to agriculture: Plant Health and Production and Plant Products; Animal Health and Production and Animal Products; Food Safety, Nutrition, and Health; Bioenergy, Natural Resources, and Environment; Agriculture Systems and Technology; and Agriculture Economics and Rural Communities. Download the RFA. Bioenergy, Natural Resources, and Environment (BNRE) programs have due dates in October 2025. |
| DoD AFRL | Suggested deadline for FY2026: September 30, 2025. | Extreme Computing | The Air Force Research Laboratory is soliciting white papers for research, development, integration, test and evaluation of technologies/techniques to support research in the focus areas computational diversity and efficient computing architectures, machine learning and artificial intelligence in embedded system and architectures, computing at the edge, nanocomputing, space computing, and robust algorithms and applications.This BAA is open and effective until 20 Sep 2028. Only white papers will be accepted as initial submissions; formal proposals will be accepted by invitation only. Future suggested submission dates: September 30, 2026, and September 30, 2027. |
| NSF | This solicitation has been archived. September 17, 2025, and September 17, 2026 | ACED: Accelerating Computing-Enabled Scientific Discovery (ACED) (NSF 24-541) | Slides from March 12, 2024, webinar here. Recurring. |
| NSF | September 16, 2025; Third Tuesday in September, Annually Thereafter - NSF TTP-T and TTP-P Tracks | Translation to Practice (NSF TTP) program (NSF 25-540) | This program aims to invest in use-inspired and translational research, with a particular focus on fostering cross-sector partnerships that will catalyze the effective and efficient translation of research into practice. The TTP program considers a broad range of translational goals that include startup formation, open-source ecosystems, licensing, standards development, etc. It offers three tracks. |
| NSF | Track 1: August 25, 2025 Track 2: September 25, 2025; (Submission of a Concept Outline by August 25th is required. See full text for additional information) | Verticals-enabling Intelligent Network Systems (VINES) NSF 25-539 | Verticals-enabling Intelligent Network Systems (VINES) Informational Webinar, Monday and Tuesday, June 16 (Track 1) and 17 (Track 2), 11am-1pm CDT each day The VINES program seeks to support both fundamental research and verticals-driven technology development, demonstration, and translation activities that will lead to leaps in performance and capabilities of next generation (NextG) advanced intelligent network systems that span the user-edge-core-cloud continuum. |
| NSF | Remaining submission windows: March 11, 2025 - June 23, 2025 June 24, 2025 - October 17, 2025 | Expanding AI Innovation through Capacity Building and Partnerships (ExpandAI) (NSF 23-506) | All proposers must receive an official invitation via the Concept Outline process to submit a full proposal to this solicitation. |
| NSF | July 23, 2025 | NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program solicitation NSF 22-586 | CAREER Proposal Submission Logistics Webinar, Wednesday, June 25, 1-2:30pm CDT, NSF's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Selection for this award is based on two important criteria: The criteria are 1) performance of innovative research at the frontiers of science, engineering, and technology that is relevant to the mission of the sponsoring organization or agency; and 2) community service demonstrated through scientific leadership, education or community outreach. |
| NSF | July 14, 2025 | Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models (IHBEM) (NSF 25-538) | The purpose of the Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models activity is to support interdisciplinary collaborations that integrate research on behavioral and/or social processes in mathematical epidemiological models. Each project should focus on a significant and well-delineated research challenge that integrates behavioral and social processes into mathematical epidemiological models. Projects need not focus on human pathogens or human hosts, although such research must still incorporate human behavior and/or social processes. |
| DARPA | July 10, 2025 | Methodological Advancements for Generalizable Insights into Complex Systems (MAGICS) | This ARC opportunity is soliciting ideas to explore the question: Are there new methods and paradigms for modeling collective human behavior capable of overcoming limits of statistical approaches to accurately predict complex social phenomena and capture the dynamics of evolving, open, time varying, recursive, reactive, non-ergodic systems? |
| NSF | June 02, 2025, and June 1 annually thereafter. | Antarctic Research Not Requiring U.S. Antarctic Program Field Support (NSF 25-526) | This solicitation supports research that advances understanding of the biota and physical systems operating in the Antarctic region and adjacent seas primarily through laboratory, modeling, and theoretical work encompassing terrestrial, marine, cryospheric, atmospheric, and space settings. It particularly encourages projects using existing samples, data, and models; the development of new instrumentation and observing technologies; workshops, conferences, and Research Coordination Networks (RCN) to advance, coordinate, or synthesize research. |
| OSTP | May 29, 2025 | Request for Information on the Development of a 2025 National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research and Development (R&D) Strategic Plan | On behalf of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) National Coordination Office (NCO) welcomes input from all interested parties on how the previous administration's National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan (2023 Update) can be modified. Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. NSF-2025-OGC-0001, at https://www.regulations.gov. |
| NSF | May 15, 2025 | Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP) (NSF 25-521) | Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP) is a mid-scale infrastructure program in the Division of Materials Research designed to accelerate advances in materials research. The third MIP competition, in 2025, will accept proposals on alloys, amorphous, and composite materials. |
| DARPA | May 12, 2025 | COMPASS: Critical Orientation of Mathematics to Produce Advancements in Science and Security | To excel in increasingly complex, dynamic, and uncertain operational environments, military decision-makers need richer mathematical frameworks that fully capture the intricacies of these challenges. This ARC opportunity is soliciting ideas to explore the question: How can new mathematical frameworks enable paradigm shifting problem formulations that better characterize complex systems, stochastic processes, and random geometric structures? |
| DOE | May 7, 2025 | Request for Information on Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure on DOE Lands | The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is exploring opportunities to leverage its land assets to support the growing demand for AI infrastructure. |
| DARPA | June 3, 2025 | Securing Artificial Intelligence for Battlefield Effective Robustness (SABER) | For performers who can assist in surveying, assessing, selecting, developing, and employing state-of-the-art physical, adversarial AI (including digital), cyber and electronic warfare techniques and tools, or other relevant vectors for enabling the operational assessment of AI-enabled system development and deployment pipelines. |
| DARPA | Proposal abstract (strongly encouraged) due date: May 15, 2025 Proposal due date: July 8, 2025 | expMath: Exponentiating Mathematics (DARPA-SN-25-41) | The goal of Exponentiating Mathematics (expMath) is to radically accelerate the rate of progress in pure mathematics by developing an AI co-author capable of proposing and proving useful abstractions. expMath will comprise teams focused on developing AI capable of auto decomposition and auto(in)formalization and teams focused on evaluation with respect to professional-level mathematics. We will robustly engage with the math and AI communities toward fundamentally reshaping the practice of mathematics by mathematicians. |
| Current | Concept papers due May 2, 2025 | Current are launching the Great Lakes ReNEW Use-Inspired R&D and Translation Grant Program—a competitive funding opportunity supporting cutting-edge research in wastewater treatment, water reuse, and resource recovery. Funded technologies may apply across a range of industries, including municipal, agricultural, food and beverage, mining, data centers, and semiconductor manufacturing. | |
| DARPA | May 2, 2025 | TRS: The Right Space(DARPA-SN-25-33) | See video of information session. Seeking new mathematical/computational methods for systematically discovering enabling transformations by leveraging advances in Scientific Machine Learning to make solving complex modeling problems easier, faster, and more interpretable. |
| ARPA-H | Full proposals due April 11 | Rare Disease AI/ML for Precision Integrated Diagnostics (RAPID) | "to develop provider-facing [AI] tools that prioritize data interoperability and integration into existing clinical workflows, ensuring scalability across health care organizations." |
| DARPA | Proposals due April 10 | Red-C: Reclaiming Bus-based Systems During Compromise | The program has launched bus-watch.org, "a new hub for the greater computer science community that provides developers and researchers with tools and datasets needed to solve fundamental algorithmic challenges as they relate to firmware security and resilience." |
| NASA | Step 2: April 3, 2025 | B.16 Heliophysics Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning-Ready Data | Specific proposal opportunity description pdf |
| LCCMR | March 19, 2025 | Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources 2026 ENRTF Request for Proposal (links to pdf) | The Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR) welcomes proposals for projects of all sizes that address the priorities and requirements described within this Request for Proposal (RFP) and that aim to protect, conserve, preserve, and enhance Minnesota’s air, water, land, fish, wildlife, and other natural resources. |
| DOE | Letter of Intent (required): March 11, 2025 LOI Response Date: Wednesday, April 3, 2025 Proposals: Tuesday, May 13, 2025 | Competitive Portfolios for Advanced Scientific Computing Research: Data Management and Visualization (LAB 25-3510) | $35 million dollars is available to support the advancement of High-Performance Computing (HPC) data management, storage, and scientific visualization that will help enable the development of the next-generation energy-efficient computing systems and approaches enabling accelerated scientific discovery. |
| NSF | March 3, 2025 and annually on March 1 thereafter. | Emerging Mathematics in Biology (eMB) (NSF 25-509) | The program supports research projects in mathematical biology that address challenging and significant biological questions through novel applications of traditional, but nontrivial mathematical tools and methods or the development of new mathematical theories particularly from foundational mathematics, including the mathematical foundation of Artificial Intelligence/Deep Learning/Machine Learning (AI/DL/ML) enabling explainable AI or mechanistic insight. |
| DARPA | February 28, 2025 | RFI: Techniques and Tools for Vulnerability Assessment of AI-enabled Systems | DARPA's Information Innovation Office (I2O) seeks information from industry developers and academic institutions regarding current and emerging techniques and tools for the operational assessment of potential vulnerabilities in DoD relevant artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled systems. |
| DARPA | February 28, 2025 | Ouija Satellite Guest Investigator Data Challenge | In approximately June 2025, DARPA will be launching the Ouija satellite into Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO). DARPA's Strategic Technologies Office (STO) is considering a “Guest Investigator” (GI) program to broaden the basic research utility of the in situ datasets collected during the Ouija mission. |
| DARPA | February 25, 2025 | Securing Artificial Intelligence for Battlefield Effective Robustness (SABER) | Securing Artificial Intelligence for Battlefield Effective Robustness (SABER) aims to build an exemplar AI red team equipped with the necessary counter-AI techniques, tools, and technical competency to operationally assess AI-enabled battlefield systems. |
| DOE | Pre-applications (required): February 25, 2025 Pre-application Response Date: March 18, 2025 Final Application: May 6, 2025 | Includes 5 topic areas: Quantum computation based on topological concepts; B) Local and Campus-Area Quantum Networking for Next Generation Parallel Quantum Computing; C) Neuromorphic Computing; D) Computational Physical Systems; and E) Deep Understanding of AI Models: "To enable the creation and use of AI models for science, many aspects of the AI training and inference processes require optimization, including speed, energy efficiency, memory and data usage, and accuracy of the predicted values and the characterized uncertainty of those values." | |
| DOE | Pre-applications (required): February 21, 2025 Pre-application Response Date: March 21, 2025 Final Application: April 25, 2025 | Partnerships in Basic Energy Sciences (SciDAC) (links to pdf) | Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR). All applications must address fundamental research in support of the BES and ASCR missions. Partnerships between domain scientists in the fields of materials science, condensed matter physics, chemical sciences, geosciences, energy-related biosciences, applied mathematics, and computer science will be critical to accelerate the scientific discovery process through revolutionary advances in models, mathematics, algorithms, data, and computing. |
| NSF | Preliminary Proposal (required): Final Proposal Target Date: | Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC)(NSF 25-527) | Future deadlines: Preliminary Proposal (required): September 8, 2025; Second Monday in September annually thereafter. January 12, 2026; second Monday in January annually thereafter. Program solicitation is to accelerate the creation of novel intelligent technologies and concepts through high-risk/high-reward research that addresses major challenges and issues faced by communities across the US. |
| NSF | February 19, 2025 and annually on the third Wednesday in February thereafter | Algorithms for Threat Detection (ATD) (NSF 24-526) | Recurring. Program supports research on new approaches to leveraging massive spatiotemporal datasets to analyze and understand spatiotemporally distributed phenomena. |
| ARPA-H | Solution Summary due: February 14, 2025 | RAPID: Rare Disease AI/ML for Precision Integrated Diagnostics | The Rare Disease AI/ML for Precision Integrated Diagnostics (RAPID) program aims to transform the diagnosis of rare and ultra-rare diseases by developing highly accurate AI-based detection models. |
| ARPA-H | Solution Summary due: February 10, 2025 | The PROactive Solutions for Prolonging Resilience (PROSPR) program aims to identify biochemical and physiological markers and develop assessment tools that will allow researchers to better understand and target the underlying causes of age-related disease. To achieve this goal, PROSPR will pioneer in-home data collection and clinical trial protocols that can assess age-associated health outcomes in just three years instead of decades of study, accelerating the availability of new therapies. | |
| NSF | Letter of Intent (required): February 7, 2025 Preliminary Proposal (required): March 7, 2025 Full Proposal (by invitation only): September 17, 2025 | Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes (QLCI) (NSF 24-599) | The goal of the Quantum Leap Challenge Institute (QLCI) program is to support timely and bold research agendas aimed at making breakthroughs on clearly identified and compelling challenges in quantum information science and engineering within a 6-year period. |
| NSF | February 5, 2025 February 5, 2026 | ||
| DOE | Pre-Proposal (required): January 23, 2025 Final Proposals: April 10, 2025 | Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) Institutes (LAB 25-3510; Link to pdf) | The mission of the SciDAC Institutes is to provide intellectual resources in applied mathematics and computer science, expertise in algorithms and methods, and scientific software tools to advance scientific discovery, particularly by effectively exploiting exascale computing capabilities, for the public benefit, in areas of strategic importance to SC and DOE. |
| ARPA-H | Solution Summaries due: January 27, 2025 | The Ocular Laboratory for Analysis of Biomarkers (OCULAB) program envisions a wearable biomarker measurement system that allows for simultaneous, continuous monitoring of tear biomarkers. The program will incorporate the latest advances in wearable technology, bioassays, nanotechnology, and AI algorithms. | |
| NASA | Step 1: January 23, 2025 | B.16 Heliophysics Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning-Ready Data | Specific proposal opportunity description pdf |
| NSF | Proposals with a U.S. PI submitted in response to this DCL to NSF must be submitted by January 22, 2025, 5:00 p.m.in the submitting U.S. organization's time zone. | Dear Colleague Letter: Special Guidelines for Submitting Joint Proposals under the Quad AI-ENGAGE Collaborative Research Opportunity (NSF 24-132) | Quad countries – Australia, India, Japan and the U.S. Joint research should advance the field(s) of artificial intelligence, robotics, sensing, and/or communications with applications to agriculture, particularly those that empower farmers to enhance productivity, sustainability, and resilience. |
| NSF | Full Proposal Window: January 21-February 4, 2025 | Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) (NSF 25-508) | DMREF emphasizes a deep integration of experiments, computation, and theory; the use of accessible digital data across the materials development continuum; and strengthening connections among theorists, computational scientists, data scientists, mathematicians, statisticians, and experimentalists as well as those from academia, industry, and government. |
| NSF | January 21, 2025 | Enabling Partnerships to Increase Innovation Capacity (EPIIC) (NSF 23-625) | The purpose of this solicitation is to broaden participation in innovation ecosystems that advance key technologies (e.g., advanced manufacturing, advanced wireless, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, quantum information science, semiconductors, novel materials, and microelectronics) by supporting capacity-building efforts at institutions of higher education (IHEs) interested in growing external partnerships. |
| ARPA-H | Full Proposal: January 15, 2025 | PRECISE-AI:Performance and Reliability Evaluation for Continuous Modifications and Useability of Artificial Intelligence | PRECISE-AI webpage Slides from Proposers' Day held in Madison on October 17, 2024. |
| NSF | Preliminary Proposal (required): January 14, 2025; Second Tuesday in January annually thereafter. Full Proposal: April 22, 2025; Fourth Tuesday in April annually thereafter. | Safety, Security, and Privacy of Open-Source Ecosystems (Safe-OSE) (NSF 24-608) | Recurring. |
| NIST | Concept paper (required) due January 13, 2025 | CARISSMA | For activities that will use cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous experimentation (AE) technologies to support the long-term viability of next-generation semiconductor manufacturing. |
| NSF | December 19, 2024 and annually on the third Thursday in December thereafter | Partnership to Advance Conservation Science and Practice (PACSP) (NSF 24-531) | Recurring. Partnership between NSF and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation. |
| NSF | Letter of Intent (required): December 16, 2024 Full Proposal: January 16, 2025 | Regional Resilience Innovation Incubator (R2I2) (NSF 24-595) | "The R2I2 program will be synergistic with both the NSF Convergence Accelerators and the NSF Regional Innovation Engines (RIEs) programs ... Potential solutions may include, but are not limited to, innovative planning and policy solutions to address environmental justice issues and reduce exposure to climate hazards, ... novel statistical and mathematical methods to evaluate climate-induced risks, or new AI and modeling tools to address challenges faced by specific industries such as the financial sector and insurance agencies." |
| NSF | October 10, 2024 | Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (NSF 24-569) | Recurring. Future due dates are October 10, 2025, and October 9, 2026. |
| NSF | October 3, 2024 | Smart Health and Biomedical Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data Science (SCH) (NSF 23-614) | Recurring, next due date is October 3, 2025. |
| NIFA-AFRI (USDA) | Vary from August to October 2024. | See AFRI website for more information. Agriculture and Food Research Initiative - Foundational and Applied Science Program (pdf) | Recurring. See especially p. 56 and p. 91. |
| NIH | September 9, 2024 (earliest submission date: August 9, 2024) | NIH Director’s Pioneer Award Program (DP1 Clinical Trial Optional) (RFA-RM-24-002) | NIH Director's Pioneer Award website. Pre-application webinar on June 25, 2024, from 2:00-3:30 PM ET. |
| NIH | September 6, 2024 (earliest submission date: August 6, 2024) | NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (DP5 - Clinical Trial Optional): RFA RM-24-005 | Early Independence Award website. Pre-application webinar on June 26, 2024, from 1:00-2:30 PM ET. |
| NIH | September 3, 2024 (earliest submission date: August 3, 2024) | NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award (R01 - Clinical Trial Optional): RFA RM-24-004 | Transformative Research Award website. Pre-application webinar on June 26, 2024, from 3:30-5:00 PM ET. |
| NSF | Letter of Intent: September 3, 2024 Preliminary Proposal: September 30, 2024 Full Proposal (by invitation only): May 9, 2025 | Gen-4 Engineering Research Centers (NSF 24-576) | |
| NSF | Phase II full proposals due August 30, 2024. Only Phase I awardees eligible to submit. | NSF Convergence Accelerator Phases 1 and 2 for the 2023 Cohort - Tracks K, L, M (NSF 23-590) | Letter of intent was due July 11, 2023. Full Phase I proposals were due August 22, 2023. |
| NSF | 2024 due date was July 22. | NSF Research Traineeship Program (NRT) (NSF 21-536) | Recurring |
| NSF | June 21, 2024 | Foundations for Digital Twins as Catalyzers of Biomedical Technological Innovation (NSF 24-561) | Recurring. Next due date: May 5, 2025, and annually on the first Monday in May thereafter. |
| NSF | June 20, 2024 | Mathematical Foundations of Digital Twins (NSF 24-559) | Recurring. Next due date: March 17, 2025, and annually on March 15 thereafter. |
| NSF | June 11, 2024 | Global Centers: Use-Inspired Research Addressing Global Challenges through the Bioeconomy (NSF 24-556) | From RFP: “Storing and analyzing huge amounts of genome and phenotype data will require innovations in computing, including artificial intelligence (AI) and mathematical foundations behind these AI approaches.” |
| AFRL | April 15, 2024: White Papers due June 10, 2024: Proposal Submission Due Date (by invitation only from White Paper Selection notice) | AFRL FY24 Data Assimilation Center of Excellence | Revised full announcement. Listen to audio of March 21, 2024 webinar. |
| NIFA-AFRI (USDA) | June 6, 2024 | For this cycle, the SAS program area will fund projects that significantly advance previously established foundational and applied sciences for the following USDA priority outcomes: Food and Nutrition Security, Strengthening the Bioeconomy, and Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry (CSAF). Recurring. | |
| ARPA-H | June 3, 2024 | Chatbot Accuracy and Reliability Evaluation (CARE) Exploration Topic | SAM.gov link to announcement |
| NSF | June 3, 2024 | Recurring. Future due dates: February 5, 2025 and February 5, 2026 | |
| NSF | May 16, 2024 | Enabling Partnerships to Increase Innovation Capacity (EPIIC) (NSF 23-625) | Recurring. Also January 21, 2025. |
| NSF | May 15, 2024 | Sustainable Regional Systems Research Networks (SRS RNs) (NSF 24-533) | Estimated Number of Awards: 1 to 2 Anticipated Funding Amount:$30,000,000, depending upon availability of funds. |
| NSF | May 13, 2024 (Emerging Ideas Proposals Only) January 14, 2025 and annually on January 14 thereafter Discovery Proposals Only in 2025 and 2026 | ACED: Accelerating Computing-Enabled Scientific Discovery (ACED) (NSF 24-541) | Recurring. |
| NSF | April 30, 2024 for consideration in FY 2024 | 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. Proposals submitted after April 30, 2024, will be considered for fiscal year 2025. |
| DARPA & ARPA-H | April 30, 2024 for open track | ARPA-H joins DARPA’s AI Cyber Challenge to safeguard nation’s health care infrastructure from cyberattacks | See also March 21, 2024 announcement from ARPA-H |
| NSF | April 30, 2024 for consideration in FY 2024 | Dear Colleague Letter: Funding Opportunities for Engineering Research to Achieve Net-Zero Climate Goals by 2050 (NSF 24-045) | Proposals submitted after April 30, 2024, will be considered for fiscal year 2025. |
| NSF | April 24, 2024 December 19, 2024 and annually on the third Thursday in December thereafter | Partnership to Advance Conservation Science and Practice (PACSP) (NSF 24-531) | Recurring. Partnership between NSF and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation. |
| NSF | Pre-applications (required): April 23, 2024 Full proposal: August 30, 2024 | Ideas Lab: Use-Inspired Acceleration of Protein Design (NSF 24-550) | Track I. Use-driven application for small binders. Track II. The design and use of enzymes and families of enzymes. "Up to 8 awards are anticipated .... Awards will be funded up to $3,750,000 per year for up to 3 years...." |
| NSF | April 10, 2024 February 19, 2025 and annually on the third Wednesday in February thereafter | Algorithms for Threat Detection (ATD) (NSF 24-526) | Recurring. Program supports research on new approaches to leveraging massive spatiotemporal datasets to analyze and understand spatiotemporally distributed phenomena. |
| NSF | April 8, 2024: Phase 1: Planning Grants, Translational Research Coordination Networks, Workshops April 22, 2024: Phase 2: Project proposals | Responsible Design, Development, and Deployment of Technologies (ReDDDoT) (NSF 24-524) | The ReDDDoT program invites proposals from multidisciplinary, multi-sector teams that examine and demonstrate the principles, methodologies, implementations, and impacts associated with responsible design, development, and deployment of technologies, focusing especially on key technologies. |
| NSF | March 31, 2024 | Dear Colleague Letter: Advancing education for the future AI workforce (EducateAI) (NSF 24-025) | |
| State of MN | March 27, 2024 | Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR) | |
| DOE | Pre-Applications (required): March 19, 2024 Pre-Application Response Date: April 11, 2024 Final Application: May 21, 2024 | Advancements in Artificial Intelligence for Science (DE-FOA-0003264) | The DOE SC program in Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) hereby announces its interest in basic computer science and applied mathematics research in the fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for science. |
| NSF | March 15, 2024 | Collaborations in Artificial Intelligence and Geosciences (CAIG) (NSF 24-518) | |
| NSF | March 14, 2024 | Mathematical Sciences Research Institutes (NSF 23-606) | Next due date is March 4, 2029. |
| NSF | March 11, 2024 | Emerging Mathematics in Biology (eMB) (NSF 24-513) | |
| DOE | Pre-Applications (required): February 29, 2024. Pre-Application Response Date: March 21, 2024 Final Application: May 2, 2024 | EXPRESS: 2024 Exploratory Research for Extreme Scale Science (DE-FOA-0003300) | |
| DOD | Abstracts due January 23, 2024. Full proposals due March 4, 2024. | Boosting Innovative GEOINT - Science & Technology Broad Agency Announcement (BIG-ST BAA) | See also NGA opens BIG-ST BAA Topic 1. |
| NSF | Preliminary: January 12, 2024 Full: May 17, 2024 | National AI Institutes (NSF 23-610)- AI for Discovery in Materials Research and Strengthening AI | |
| NSF | Preliminary: October 31, 2023 Full: February 12, 2024 | National AI Institutes (NSF 23-610)- Astronomical Sciences | |
| NSF | July 17, 2023; July 15 annually thereafter January 16, 2024 (January 15 annually thereafter) | Arctic Research Opportunities Arctic Natural Sciences; Arctic Social Sciences (NSF 23-572) | Recurring |
| NEH | Optional draft due: January 10, 2024 Deadline: February 14, 2024 | Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence | |
| DARPA | Due date for 2023 was November 30. | Advanced Research Concept (ARC) Opportunity: Collaborative Knowledge Curation | |
| DARPA | Due date for 2023 was November 30. | Foundation Models for Scientific Discovery (DARPA-PA-23-04-01) AI Exploration (AIE) Opportunity | |
| NSF | Due date for 2023 was November 17. | Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems (DISES) (NSF 23-609) | This has been a recurring program. |
| USDA-DSFAS | Due date for 2023 was November 16. | Data Science for Food and Agricultural Systems (DSFAS) (Part of AFRI Foundational and Applied Science Program) (see p. 91ff) | Recurring |
| NSF | None currently. | Regional Innovation Engines | Read the original Broad Agency Announcement for 2022-2023. Read more about REIs. NSF anticipates future calls for proposals, pending availability of funds. To stay in the loop about future funding calls and opportunities to engage, sign up for their newsletter. |
| NSF | Due dates for 2023 were May 15, June 20, and December 18. | Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-2 (Mid-scale RI-2) (NSF 23-570) | This has been a recurring opportunity in odd-numbered years. This is the 2023 solicitation, which required a letter of intent, a preliminary proposal, and a final proposal by invitation only. |
| NSF | The submission window for 2023 was February 27 - March 13. | Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) (NSF 23-530) | This has been a recurring opportunity in odd-numbered years, i.e. 2023, 2025, etc. |