Project Grant F16AP00159

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, issued by the Department of Defense's Office of the Secretary of Defense under the Procurement Technical Assistance For Business Firms program (CFDA 12.002), provides $335,361.27 to The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) to establish and maintain an APEX Accelerator. The APEX Accelerator will serve as a resource for large and small businesses, including newly started enterprises, to obtain procurement technical assistance. The award has a...

The U.S. Department of the Navy, through the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300), has awarded a $113,760 Cooperative Agreement to Wildlife Innovations, a for-profit company. This 5-year award will support the conservation management of the California least tern, an endangered seabird species, at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California. Specifically, Wildlife Innovations will conduct endangered species monitoring, manage predator...

This $1,182,160 federal project grant awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the North American Wetlands Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.623) supports a range of conservation, restoration, and environmental education activities in Mexico. Key products and services delivered through this 2-year grant (award date: May 22, 2024, completion date: May 22, 2026) include: (1) Securing private conservation agreements to protect over 15,689 acres of land in the San...

The U.S. Navy Installations Command awarded a $102,224.87 Cooperative Agreement to the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research federal grant program (CFDA 12.300) on July 9, 2024. The agreement supports habitat management, plant nursery operations, and invasive species control at the Defense Fuel Support Point in San Pedro, California. The Conservancy, a non-profit organization focused on environmental preservation and endangered species...

Northeastern University was awarded a $1,279,032 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) to upgrade and test the Passive Ocean Acoustic Waveguide Remote Sensing (POAWRS) system. POAWRS is a 160-element coherent hydrophone array technology developed for long-range directional sensing and real-time detection, localization, and mapping of various ocean sound sources over continental shelf scales. Under...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $8,223,567 Cooperative Agreement under the Habitat Conservation program (CFDA 11.463) to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD). This funding will enable TPWD to collaborate with local partners to select, construct, and monitor at least 20 acres of oyster reef throughout the Mission-Aransas Estuary near Corpus Christi, Texas. The project aims to expand a network of protected oyster reserves that will provide a long-term...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has awarded a $2,063,726 cooperative agreement to the University of Texas at Austin under the FY2023 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law National Estuarine Research Reserve Habitat Restoration and Conservation Competition (CFDA 11.473 - Office for Coastal Management). The funding will be used to restore 11.5 acres of oyster reef along Ayres Point in the Mesquite Bay complex, which provides shoreline and marsh habitat protection and supports...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Cooperative Institute (Inter-Agency Funded Activities) program (CFDA 11.405) provides $1,698,392 to Oregon State University (OSU) to conduct passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) of marine mammals in the Pacific Ocean. The project involves deploying four ocean gliders off the coast of Southern California and Hawaii for approximately two months to record ocean sounds and detect the presence of...

The U.S. Department of Defense, through the Procurement Technical Assistance For Business Firms program (CFDA 12.002), awarded a $395,859.02 Cooperative Agreement to the Monterey County Business Council, Inc. This award, effective May 1, 2024, through April 30, 2025, supports the organization's operation of an APEX Accelerator. The APEX Accelerator serves as a resource for large and small businesses, including newly started companies, to obtain procurement technical assistance. The services...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808) provides $244,831 to the University of Puerto Rico to conduct field observations and measurements at a large-scale coral reef restoration site in La Parguera, Puerto Rico. The purpose is to determine how changes in reef structure influence surface wave transformation processes, in order to evaluate the coastal protection effectiveness of the restoration efforts. The...