Testbed Collaboration Acknowledgement Form—FY25 to Publish.pdf

This document is a Testbed Collaboration Acknowledgement Form related to a federal grant opportunity from the NOAA Weather Program Office (WPO). The form requires the Principal Investigator(s) to acknowledge federal collaboration on the development of a proposal for the FY2025 WPO Research Programs Announcement - Air Quality Research and Forecasting (AQRF) funding opportunity. The AQRF program has an approximate total award funding of $1,050,000 per year and supports new weather, water, and earth system observing and forecasting applications, in alignment with the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act of 2017. The form allows the applicant to indicate their role in coordinating testbed activities and/or DESI activities for the collaborative project. The related federal grant opportunity is soliciting proposals from eligible applicants for the AQRF program, with a focus on priorities identified in the Science Advisory Board's 2021 Priorities for Weather Research Report and the National Weather Service's strategic priority to advance probabilistic forecasting and decision support services.