Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI)

Posted

Opportunity number
25-534
Agency
Applications due
Not on record
Award size
$50,000 to $750,000

Opportunity facts

Funding instrument
Grant
Category
  • Science and Technology and other Research and Development
Eligible applicants
  • Other
Points of contact
Full announcement

Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .

About this opportunity

Written by GovTribe AI ·

The National Science Foundation is soliciting applications for the Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI) program, which funds use-inspired fundamental and potentially transformative research integrating expertise from social, behavioral, or economic sciences with other disciplines to strengthen specific infrastructure focal areas; no hard deadline is specified in the source.

Eligible applicants include U.S.-based for-profit organizations with strong scientific or engineering research capabilities, non-profit non-academic organizations such as independent museums, research laboratories, and professional societies directly associated with educational or research activities, two- and four-year institutions of higher education accredited and located in the U.S., and federally recognized Tribal Nations. Principal investigators must hold appointments at U.S.-based campuses or offices of eligible organizations; co-PIs, senior/key personnel, and consultants face no citizenship or institutional restrictions. International branch campuses of U.S. institutions may receive funding if the proposer demonstrates project benefits specific to the branch campus and justifies why activities cannot be performed at the U.S. campus.

No cost share requirement is stated in the source. Award ceilings, award floors, and expected number of awards are not specified. Period of performance and place of performance details are absent from the source.

The program emphasizes convergence of expertise, prioritizing projects that integrate knowledge about human reasoning and decision-making, governance, and social and cultural processes with fundamental research in technology and engineering applied to infrastructure strengthening. Research must address how these social and behavioral insights enable building and maintenance of effective infrastructure that improves lives and society.

The opportunity operates under multiple CFDA numbers: 47.074 (Biological Sciences), 47.050 (Geosciences), 47.075 (Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences), 47.041 (Engineering), 47.049 (Mathematical and Physical Sciences), and 47.076 (STEM Education). Inquiries should be directed to NSF-SAI@nsf.gov. Applications follow NSF standard submission requirements via Grants.gov or Research.gov.

Synopsis

Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI) is an NSF program seeking to stimulate human-centered, use-inspired, fundamental and potentially transformative research aimed at strengthening America's infrastructure. Effective infrastructure provides a strong foundation for socioeconomic vitality and broad improvement in quality of life. Robust, reliable and effective infrastructure spurs private-sector innovation, grows the economy, creates jobs, makes public-sector service provision more efficient, strengthens communities, promotes equal opportunity, protects the natural environment, enhances national security and fuels American leadership. Achieving these objectives requires the integration of expertise from across all science and engineering disciplines. SAI focuses on how fundamental knowledge about human reasoning and decision-making, governance, and social and cultural processes enables the building and maintenance of effective infrastructure that improves lives and society and builds on advances in technology and engineering. Successful projects will represent a convergence of expertise in one or more social, behavioral or economic sciences, deeply integrated with other disciplines to support substantial and potentially pathbreaking fundamental research applied to strengthening a specific focal infrastructure.

General inquiries regarding this funding opportunity should be sent to NSF-SAI@nsf.gov.

Eligibility

*Who May Submit Proposals: Proposals may only be submitted by the following: -For-profit organizations: U.S.-based commercial organizations, including small businesses, with strong capabilities in scientific or engineering research or education and a passion for innovation. -Non-profit, non-academic organizations: Independent museums, observatories, research laboratories, professional societies and similar organizations located in the U.S. that are directly associated with educational or research activities. -Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs): Two- and four-year IHEs (including community colleges) accredited in, and having a campus located in the US, acting on behalf of their faculty members. Special Instructions for International Branch Campuses of US IHEs: If the proposal includes funding to be provided to an international branch campus of a US institution of higher education (including through use of sub-awards and consultant arrangements), the proposer must explain the benefit(s) to the project of performance at the international branch campus, and justify why the project activities cannot be performed at the US campus. -Tribal Nations: An American Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village, or community that the Secretary of the Interior acknowledges as a federally recognized tribe pursuant to the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994, 25 U.S.C. §§ 5130-5131. *Who May Serve as PI: PIs must hold appointments at U.S.-based campuses/offices of eligible organizations (IHEs, Non-profit, non-academic organizations, For-profit organizations, Tribal Nations). There are no restrictions on who may serve as co-PIs, Senior/Key Personnel, or Consultant.

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