Active Government Funding Opportunities

STARBASE Cherry Point is an educational program designed to inspire middle school students toward STEM careers through hands-on technology and aerospace learning experiences. By engaging youth with interactive demonstrations and mentor interactions at naval aviation facilities, the program aims to spark early interest in scientific and technical disciplines.

Explore cutting-edge research across multiple engineering domains, from coastal dynamics to military infrastructure, through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' open innovation platform. This broad agency announcement seeks transformative solutions addressing complex technical challenges in areas like environmental sustainability, infrastructure resilience, and advanced scientific instrumentation.

FAIROS aims to enhance open science by developing robust research data management solutions that improve data accessibility, interoperability, and reusability across scientific disciplines. The program seeks to lower barriers for researchers by creating innovative cyberinfrastructure that supports efficient data sharing, curation, and collaborative scientific communication.

A mobile interface for Antarctic research collaboration, enabling scientists to access and submit proposals for cutting-edge field studies exploring global environmental systems through unique polar research opportunities. The app streamlines proposal tracking, logistical support coordination, and scientific communication for U.S. Antarctic Program investigations.

A mobile-based interface that visualizes research ecosystem collaboration pathways, enabling jurisdictions to map, track, and optimize strategic connections between academic, government, industry, and community stakeholders to enhance scientific infrastructure and innovation potential.

Explore Antarctic research opportunities through data-driven, multidisciplinary projects that advance global understanding of Earth systems without requiring on-site field support. This NSF solicitation supports innovative research analyzing Antarctic interactions, processes, and environmental changes using remote methodologies and existing data resources.

LEAPS-MPS supports early-career faculty at underrepresented research institutions in mathematical and physical sciences by providing critical funding to launch innovative research programs. The initiative aims to diversify the STEM workforce by empowering emerging researchers from minority-serving and predominantly undergraduate institutions.

Seeking innovative research proposals that strengthen STEM research capacity in EPSCoR jurisdictions by developing collaborative, interdisciplinary networks. Projects should address emerging research areas with high potential impact, promoting sustainable scientific ecosystems that generate new knowledge and drive societal benefits.

NASA is seeking proposals for transformative space technologies spanning research, development, demonstration, and integration into future missions. This umbrella solicitation supports innovations from entrepreneurs, researchers, and small businesses that advance U.S. space capabilities, drive economic growth in the expanding space economy, and solve critical challenges for civil and commercial space exploration.

NASA is seeking proposals for General Observer time on the XRISM X-ray astronomy satellite, enabling researchers to conduct coordinated observations with XMM-Newton and NuSTAR observatories. This opportunity supports studies requiring precise X-ray spectroscopy, including time-sensitive and target-of-opportunity observations for transient cosmic events.

NASA is seeking proposals for its Science Activation Program, which aims to connect NASA science with learners of all ages through education and public engagement initiatives. The program focuses on making NASA's scientific discoveries accessible and inspiring to diverse audiences while building pathways into STEM careers.

NASA is seeking proposals from early career planetary scientists to advance research in solar system exploration and planetary science. This award supports emerging researchers in establishing their work while contributing to our understanding of planets, moons, and other solar system bodies.

This broad research opportunity covers naval combat readiness, hypersonic vehicle development, electronic warfare, cybersecurity, and advanced manufacturing. The DoD is seeking innovative solutions spanning predictive maintenance, immersive training simulations, directed energy systems, and rapid prototyping to enhance fleet operations and accelerate critical Navy system development.

Riparian plant research exploring how hydropower dam operations along the Colorado River affect native and invasive plant species. This study combines controlled experiments and existing monitoring data to understand which plants thrive or struggle under daily flow fluctuations, helping inform dam management strategies that could improve riverside vegetation conditions.

Bat research partnership to study distribution, activity patterns, and disease status on Navy properties in Washington and Idaho. This work addresses critical gaps in understanding Pacific Northwest bat populations and helps monitor the spread of white-nose syndrome, a devastating fungal disease threatening bat communities across the country.

The NSF funds university-based materials research centers tackling complex, fundamental science and engineering challenges that require large-scale, multidisciplinary collaboration. These centers build national research infrastructure, foster partnerships between academia, industry, and international organizations, and advance materials science education through coordinated interdisciplinary research groups.

NSF is building research networks to advance K-12 math education by combining learning science, neuroscience, AI, and data science with classroom expertise. The initiative will create valuable datasets and a collaborative platform connecting researchers, educators, and data scientists to improve how students learn mathematics.

NSF is funding national-scale data infrastructure and AI-driven services to support open, data-intensive scientific research across disciplines. Projects can develop novel integrated data systems, enhance existing capabilities, or build new interfaces—all aimed at advancing research, innovation, and education at scale.

NSF funds university alliances working to increase STEM degree completion among underrepresented students, including Black, Hispanic, Indigenous, and Pacific Islander populations. The program supports pathways from community college through doctoral programs, combining financial support with evidence-based retention strategies to diversify the national STEM workforce.

NSF is funding cybersecurity solutions designed specifically for scientific research infrastructure, including tools that make security easier for researchers to adopt, datasets for testing security systems, and methods to ensure AI training data is trustworthy. Projects should help protect scientific data, collaborations, and computational workflows across disciplines.

NSF is funding campus-based research centers focused on tackling complex materials science challenges through interdisciplinary collaboration. These centers bring together multiple research groups to advance fundamental materials research while building partnerships between universities, industry, and international organizations.

Development of physiologically-based pharmacokinetic models to predict how long-acting injectable drugs and implants release medication in the body over time. This research aims to create better tools for understanding drug absorption from these sustained-release formulations, potentially reducing the need for extensive clinical testing.

The DoD is seeking information on creating multidisciplinary innovation ecosystems that foster collaboration across different fields and organizations. This initiative aims to support Army research capabilities by building networks that can accelerate technology development and knowledge sharing.

Research partnership to develop smarter monitoring frameworks for invasive aquatic species in the Mississippi River Basin. The goal is to use adaptive learning approaches like Bayesian networks to help resource managers track invasive species more efficiently and measure whether control efforts are actually working.

NASA is seeking proposals to advance new technologies and research initiatives in heliophysics, the study of the Sun and its effects on the solar system. This program supports innovative approaches that could enhance our understanding of space weather and its impact on Earth and space exploration.