Cooperative Agreement AM23TMATRD00C002

This three-year, $438,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Social and Economic Science will fund research by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. on the micro and macroeconomic effects of supply chain disruptions. The awardee will develop firm-level models to investigate how supply disruptions impact aggregate economic outcomes like GDP, employment, and prices, and can potentially cause recessions or inflation. The models will measure the contribution of...

This $215,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science supports a collaborative research effort focused on the economics of port infrastructure and its role in international trade. The project aims to provide insights into the returns on transportation infrastructure investments, the drivers of port performance, and the factors contributing to supply chain disruptions. The researchers are constructing a unique global database on ports...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $414,909 Project Grant under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. The grant, which runs from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027, will fund research to develop a systematic framework for analyzing the efficiency and resilience of supply chain networks. The project aims to elucidate the mechanisms by which supply chain disruptions can lead to price volatility and fragility, leveraging...

This $238,149 Early-Concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop an innovative framework for strengthening the supply chain of critical minerals in the United States. The project will study strategies for companies in a distributed supply chain, using manganese as a test case, to form alliances and share the cost of resilience in order to ensure continuity of product flow, promote supplier...

The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $199,434 Project Grant to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York to support the project "RAPID: OPERATIONALIZING THE CAPABILITIES APPROACH IN THE CONTEXT OF DISASTER RESILIENCE: MEASURING THE SOCIAL BURDEN OF INFRASTRUCTURE DISRUPTIONS" from May 15, 2021 through April 30, 2022. This Project Grant funding will support research to operationalize the Capabilities Approach framework...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science funds a collaborative research project focused on the economics of port infrastructure and its role in international trade. The $205,980 project will be conducted by researchers at Boston College over 3 years, ending in August 2026. The key objectives of the research are to investigate the returns to investing in transportation infrastructure, understand the drivers of port performance,...

Arizona State University was awarded a three-year $650,000 project grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program (AFRI, CFDA No. 10.310). The grant will fund research to identify points of failure in food supply chains and experiment with solutions using simulation modeling to respond to disruptions. Researchers will investigate how transitioning to online...

This $4.3 million project grant from the Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration's Economic Adjustment Assistance program (CFDA 11.307) funds the Massachusetts Manufacturing Emergency Response Team 2.0 (MERT 2.0) initiative. The award date was April 15, 2021. The funding supports continued efforts to assist Massachusetts manufacturers in pivoting production capabilities to critical supplies like personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Key partners -...

The Pa IRC Network Foundation received a $400,000 cooperative agreement award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology under the Manufacturing Extension Partnership program to optimize domestic supply chains in Pennsylvania. Through this award, Pa IRC Network Foundation and six nonprofit sub-awardees - Mantec Inc., Nepirc, Catalyst Connection, Innovative Manufacturers Center Inc., Manufacturers Resource Center, and Delaware Valley Industrial Resource Center - will provide supply...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $650,000 Convergence Accelerator Track M grant to the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to develop a bio-inspired robotic system that can autonomously construct a floating conveyor network to transport palletized goods during flood events. This 12-month project, which commenced on January 15, 2024, seeks to address the growing threat of flooding in the New York City area by leveraging insights from slime mold behavior to craft swarm robot...