Domestic Nuclear Detection Office-National Science Foundation Academic Research Initiative
(ARI)
 
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CONTACTS
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PROGRAM GUIDELINES
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Solicitation
09-532
As announced on May 21st, proposers must prepare and submit proposals to the National
Science Foundation (NSF) using the NSF FastLane system at
http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/.
This approach is being taken to support efficient Grants.gov operations during this busy
workload period and in response to OMB direction guidance issued March 9, 2009. NSF will
continue to post information about available funding opportunities to Grants.gov FIND and
will continue to collaborate with institutions who have invested in system-to-system
submission functionality as their preferred proposal submission method. NSF remains
committed to the long-standing goal of streamlined grants processing and plans to
provide a web services interface for those institutions that want to use their
existing grants management systems to directly submit proposals to NSF.
Please be advised that the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) includes
revised guidelines to implement the mentoring provisions of the America COMPETES Act (ACA)
(Pub. L. No. 110-69, Aug. 9, 2007.) As specified in the ACA, each proposal that requests
funding to support postdoctoral researchers must include a description of the mentoring
activities that will be provided for such individuals. Proposals that do not comply
with this requirement will be returned without review (see the PAPP Guide Part I:
Grant Proposal Guide Chapter II for further information about the implementation of
this new requirement).
DUE DATES
Full Proposal Deadline Date: April 26, 2010
through 2011
Fourth Monday in April, Annually Thereafter
SYNOPSIS
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In FY 2009, the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will invest, in partnership with the National Science Foundation (NSF), in frontier research at academic institutions. This transformational research effort will be focused on detection systems, individual sensors or other research that is potentially relevant to the detection of nuclear weapons, special nuclear material, radiation dispersal devices and related threats. The joint DNDO-NSF effort, in coordination with the efforts of other agencies, seeks to advance fundamental knowledge in new technologies for the detection of nuclear threats and to develop intellectual capacity in fields relevant to long-term advances in nuclear detection capability. This research and the research community that will be built under the ARI are seen as critical to our nation's ability to deploy effective nuclear detection measures to counter the serious threat of a nuclear terrorist attack. Proposals outside of the scope described in this solicitation will be returned without review. Research proposals on detection of biological, chemical, and conventional weapons are specifically excluded from the scope of this solicitation.
RELATED URLS
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DNDO/NSF Academic Research Initiative (ARI) Conflicts of Interest (COI) and Topic Area Submission System
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Concerning the DNDO/NSF Academic Research Initiative (ARI)
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DNDO/NSF Academic Research Initiative (ARI) Webpage
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DNDO/NSF Academic Research Initiative (ARI) Grantees Conference, April 6-9, 2009
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Abstracts of Recent Awards Made Through This Program
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