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FYI: William T. Grant Scholars Program

Slots: An institution may nominate more than one candidate, but only one applicant may be nominated from a major division of an institution each year (e.g., College of Arts and Sciences, Medical School).

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: Contact your School’s Dean/Dean’s Office if interested in this opportunity.

Mentor and Reference Letter Deadline: June 14, 2023, 3pm EST

External Deadline: July 5, 2023, 3pm EST

Award Information

Award Type: Grant

Estimated Number of Awards: 4-6

Anticipated Award Amount: $350,000, distributed over 5 years.

Who May Serve as PI: Applicants must have received their terminal degree within seven years of submitting their application. We calculate this by adding seven to the year the doctoral degree was conferred. In medicine, the seven-year maximum is dated from the completion of the first residency. The month in which the degree was conferred or residency completed does not matter for this calculation.

Applicants must be employed in career-ladder positions. For many applicants, this means holding a tenure-track position in a university. Applicants in other types of organizations should be in positions in which there is a pathway to advancement in a research career at the organization and the organization is fiscally responsible for the applicant’s position. The award may not be used as a post-doctoral fellowship

Link to Award: https://wtgrantfoundation.org/grants/william-t-grant-scholars-program

Process for Limited Submissions

Please contact your School’s Dean’s Office if you are interested in this program. Since the Dean is the person who must be the nominator for the William T. Grant Scholars Program, they will need to coordinate this limited submission instead of us.

Purpose

The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports career development for promising early-career researchers. The program funds five-year research and mentoring plans that significantly expand researchers’ expertise in new disciplines, methods, and content areas.

Applicants should have a track record of conducting high-quality research and an interest in pursuing a significant shift in their trajectories as researchers. We recognize that early-career researchers are rarely given incentives or support to take measured risks in their work, so this award includes a mentoring component, as well as a supportive academic community.

Awards are based on applicants’ potential to become influential researchers, as well as their plans to expand their expertise in new and significant ways. The application should make a cohesive argument for how the applicant will expand his or her expertise. The research plan should evolve in conjunction with the development of new expertise, and the mentoring plan should describe how the proposed mentors will support applicants in acquiring that expertise. Proposed research plans must address questions that are relevant to policy and practice in the Foundation’s focus areas.

The Foundation’s mission is to support research to improve the lives of young people ages 5-25 in the United States. We pursue this mission by supporting research within two focus areas. Researchers interested in applying for a William T. Grant Scholars Award must select one focus area:

Reducing Inequality

In this focus area, we support studies that aim to build, test, or increase understanding of programs, policies, or practices to reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people, especially on the basis of race, ethnicity, economic standing, language minority status, or immigrant origins.

Studies on reducing inequality should aim to build, test, or increase understanding of programs, policies, or practices to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. We welcome descriptive studies that clarify mechanisms for reducing inequality or elucidate how or why a specific program, policy, or practice operates to reduce inequality. We also welcome intervention studies that examine attempts to reduce inequality. In addition, we seek studies that improve the measurement of inequality in ways that can enhance the work of researchers, practitioners, or policymakers. The common thread across all of this work, however, is a distinct and explicit focus on reducing inequality—one that goes beyond describing the causes or consequences of unequal outcomes and, instead, identifies leverage points for reducing inequality.

Improving the Use of Research Evidence

In this focus area, we support research to identify, build, and test strategies to ensure that research evidence is used in ways that benefit youth. We are particularly interested in research on improving the use of research evidence by state and local decision makers, mid-level managers, and intermediaries.

Studies on improving the use of research evidence should identify, build, and test strategies to ensure that research evidence is used in ways that benefit youth. We welcome ideas from social scientists across a range of disciplines, fields, and methodologies that can advance their own disciplines and fields and reveal insights about ways to improve the production and use of research evidence. Measures also are needed to capture changes in the nature and degree of research use. We welcome investigations about research use in various systems, including justice, child welfare, mental health, and education. Research teams have drawn on existing conceptual and empirical work from political science, communication science, knowledge mobilization, implementation science, organizational psychology and other areas related to the use of research for improvement, impact, and change in research, policy, and practice institutions. Critical perspectives that inform studies’ research questions, methods, and interpretation of findings are also welcome. Broadening the theoretical perspectives used to study ways to improving the usefulness, use, and impact of research evidence may create a new frontier of important research.

Selection Criteria

Selection is based on applicants’ potential to become influential researchers, as well as their plans to expand their expertise in new and significant ways. The application should make a cohesive argument for how the applicant will expand his or her expertise. The research plan should evolve in conjunction with the development of new expertise, and the mentoring plan should describe how the proposed mentors will support applicants in acquiring that expertise.

Visit our Institutionally Limited Submission webpage for more updates and other announcements.

The G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation Grants

Slots: Universities/Institutions are limited to four applications per cycle.

One application per cycle per investigator.

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: Friday, May 19th, 2023, 5pm PT

LOI: July 28, 2023

External Deadline: September 29, 2023

Award Information

Award Type: Grant

Award Amount: When creating the LOI, the budget should be reasonable based on the aims of the project. When reviewing applications, we determine if the budget is reasonable based on multiple factors. This includes the number of researchers working on the grant (and their training), the type of model being used for experiments (mouse, drosophila, c. elegans, etc.), supplies required for experiments, genetic sequencing or other outsourced services, test setup development, etc. With the large variances in typical budgets between the different scientific disciplines, we do not provide a boundary condition. However, a detailed budget justification will be required and scrutinized during the proposal phase if the LOI is invited to proceed to step 2 of the application process.

Who May Serve as PI: Not specified on website.

Link to Award: http://www.mathersfoundation.org/

Process for Limited Submissions

PIs must submit their application as a Limited Submission through the Research Initiatives and Infrastructure (RII) Application Portal: https://rii.usc.edu/oor-portal/. Use the template provided here:

RII-Limited-Submission-Application-Template.

Materials to submit include:

  • (1) Two-Page Proposal Summary (0.5” margins; single-spaced; font type: Arial, Helvetica, or Georgia typeface; font size: 11 pt). Page limit includes references and illustrations. Pages that exceed the 2-page limit will be excluded from review. You must use the template linked above.
  • (2) CV – (5 pages maximum)

Note: The portal requires information about the PIs in addition to department and contact information, including the 10-digit USC ID#, Gender, and Ethnicity. Please have this material prepared before beginning this application.

Purpose

The G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Charitable Foundation was organized as a Texas non-profit corporation and obtained a ruling from the Internal Revenue Service granting it tax-exempt status as a section 501(c)(3) organization. The Foundation commenced its grant-making activities in Fall, 1982. Since its inception, The Mathers Foundation has granted in excess of $350M.

For many years the Foundation has enjoyed special recognition in the research community in supporting “basic” scientific research, realizing that true transformative breakthroughs usually occur after a thorough understanding of the fundamental mechanisms underlying natural phenomena. More recently, and with the advent of newer investigative methodologies, technology, and tools, the Foundation now embraces innovative translational research proposals.

  • The Foundation primarily supports basic science, ideally with potential translational applications. 
  • Immunology, microbiome, genomics, structural biology, cellular physiology, neuroscience, etc., are some noteworthy examples of current research support.  
  • Covid-19 related research projects (aims or sub-aims) will not be considered for support. 
  • Medical imaging technology related projects and/or electrical engineering technology development projects will not be considered for support. 
  • Plant Biology Research, Oceanography, Space Exploration. and Global Warming related research will not be considered for support. 
  • As technology continues to advance, it is apparent that investigations in the area of basic science and translational research may become more and more reliant on collaborative, interdisciplinary projects. It is important to note that any interdisciplinary project proposals may require additional information regarding collaborator(s)’ achievements and relevant expertise. 
  • Feedback for declined LOI Requests will not be provided; LOIs or Formal Proposals that have been declined should not be resubmitted at a later date for consideration. 
  • Renewal applications for the same or related research will not be accorded priority consideration. It is strongly advised that any re-application for grant renewal consider a new direction based on prior research or emphasize some new potential translational aspects and not merely an extension of previously funded research. 
  • Requests for funding previously federally supported research and/or applications pending federal approval will not be accorded priority consideration. 
  • Requests for support of clinical trials or drug discovery will not be approved. The Foundation will not support projects which we consider pre-clinical drug development. 
  • Grant Agreements must be signed by an authorized signatory for the University/Institution and countersigned by the Primary Investigator. 

Budgetary Requirements

  • The budget justification should provide detailed costs of investigators’ salaries, laboratory supplies, etc., and will be highly scrutinized. 
  • Grant duration must be three years. 
  • Our expectation is that an investigation will be completed within the requested duration of the grant (up to 3 years). A no-cost extension may be requested if the investigation has not been completed and there are still funds available. If at the end of the grant term, the aims of the project have not been met, an explanation should be provided to the Foundation. (The primary investigator is urged to consider a proposed modification of the project’s original aims to prevent such a situation from occurring.) 
  • Preliminary Budgets are required during the LOI phase. A detailed budget justification is not required until the proposal phase.  
  • The Foundation’s grant award is not intended to be utilized for purchasing capital equipment (“bricks-and-mortar”) for the lab and is intended only to support the actual investigation. The Foundation assumes and expects that capital equipment must be provided by the research institution or university. 
  • Indirect Costs for the proposed project cannot exceed 10%. 

Visit our Institutionally Limited Submission webpage for more updates and other announcements.

(CLOSED) Takeda/New York Academy of Sciences Innovators in Science Award: Cancer Immunology

Slots: Both Early-Career Scientist and Senior Scientist slots taken.

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: Closed.

Nomination Deadline: Friday, March 31, 2023, 11:59pm ET

Letter of Support Deadline: Friday, April 14, 2023, 11:59pm ET (Letters of Support Due)

Award Information

Award Type: Grant

Anticipated Award Amount: $200,000

Who May Serve as PI: 

Early-Career Scientist

The nominee must:

  • Have been engaged in active research for a length of time of 10 years or less since gaining their doctorate degree or equivalent.
  • Hold a doctorate degree (PhD, DPhil, MD, DDS, DVM, etc.).
  • Currently hold a junior level Post-doctoral or Faculty position at an invited academic, government, or non-profit institution or equivalent.
  • Have made impactful research contributions and show exceptional promise for significant future achievement in the Award field.

In the event that an Early-Career Scientist nominee has taken a maternity, paternity, adoptive, family care, military, or extended sick leave (in line with their current institution’s policies) during the 10 years since gaining their doctoral degree or equivalent, they can qualify for an extension of the eligibility timeframe. Instructions regarding how to request an extension are provided at the end of the Guidelines section.

Senior Scientist

The nominee must:

  • Have been engaged in active research for a length of time of more than 10 years since gaining their doctorate degree or equivalent.
  • Hold a doctorate degree (PhD, DPhil, MD, DDS, DVM, etc.).
  • Currently hold a senior level Faculty position at an invited academic, government, or non-profit institution or equivalent.
  • Have made multiple, extensive, and impactful research contributions to advance the Award field.

Link to Award: https://www.nyas.org/awards/innovators-in-science-award/

Process for Limited Submissions

PIs must submit their application as a Limited Submission through the Research Initiatives and Infrastructure (RII) Application Portal: https://rii.usc.edu/oor-portal/. Use the template provided here:

RII-Limited-Submission-Application-Template.Download

Materials to submit include:

  • (1) Two-Page Proposal Summary (0.5” margins; single-spaced; font type: Arial, Helvetica, or Georgia typeface; font size: 11 pt). Page limit includes references and illustrations. Pages that exceed the 2-page limit will be excluded from review. You must use the template linked above.
  • (2) CV – (5 pages maximum)

Note: The portal requires information about the PIs in addition to department and contact information, including the 10-digit USC ID#, Gender, and Ethnicity. Please have this material prepared before beginning this application.

Purpose

Established in 2016, the Innovators in Science Award is administered by the New York Academy of Sciences and sponsored by Takeda. This global award recognizes a promising Early-Career Scientist’s and an outstanding Senior Scientist’s contributions to biomedical science and is intended to support their commitment to innovative research. Select international institutions are invited to submit nominations. Each winner receives an unrestricted prize of US$200,000 for their excellence in, and commitment to, innovative science that has significantly advanced a rotating focus area. 

The 2024 Innovators in Science Award will recognize achievements in Cancer Immunology. Cancer remains the second-leading cause of death worldwide, and the global burden is expected to rise as the population grows and ages.1 Despite major advances in the drug development pipeline, about only 11% of new cancer therapeutics make it into the clinic.2 This Award recognizes bold, creative scientists seeking to increase our molecular and immunological understanding of cancer and inform novel therapeutic approaches.

Review Criteria:

Early-Career Scientist

  • Quality: The extent to which the work is reliable, valid, credible, and scientifically rigorous.
  • Impact: The extent to which the work represents a significant contribution in basic, translational, or clinical research that has impacted, or has strong potential to impact, human health through the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of disease.
  • Novelty: The extent to which the work challenges existing paradigms, employs innovative new methodologies or concepts, and/or pursues an original question.
  • Promise: The extent to which the nominee has made innovative research contributions and shows exceptional promise for significant future achievement in the Award field.

Senior Scientist

  • Quality: The extent to which the work is reliable, valid, credible, and scientifically rigorous.
  • Impact: The extent to which the work represents a significant contribution in basic, translational, or clinical research that has impacted, or has strong potential to impact, human health through the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of disease.
  • Novelty: The extent to which the work challenges existing paradigms, employs new innovative methodologies or concepts, and/or pursues an original question.
  • Promise: The extent to which the nominee has made impactful research contributions and future prospects for further significant contributions in the Award field.

Visit our Institutionally Limited Submission webpage for more updates and other announcements.

Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) DE-FOA-0003005: Quantum Testbed Pathfinder

Slots: Two slots still available.

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: Contact RII.

LOI: March 31, 2023

External Deadline: May 3, 2023, 11:59pm ET

Award Information

Award Type: Grant

Estimated Number of Awards: The exact number of awards will depend on the number of meritorious applications and the availability of appropriated funds.

Anticipated Award Amount: $300,000 per year for a single institution; $600,000 per year for a multi-institutional team. The award floor is $50,000 per year.

Who May Serve as PI: Individuals with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as a Principal Investigator (PI) are invited to work with their organizations to develop an application. Individuals from underrepresented groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply.

Link to Award: https://science.osti.gov/-/media/grants/pdf/foas/2023/SC_FOA_0003005.pdf

Process for Limited Submissions

PIs must submit their application as a Limited Submission through the Research Initiatives and Infrastructure (RII) Application Portal: https://rii.usc.edu/oor-portal/. Use the template provided here:

RII-Limited-Submission-Application-Template.

Materials to submit include:

  • (1) Two-Page Proposal Summary (0.5” margins; single-spaced; font type: Arial, Helvetica, or Georgia typeface; font size: 11 pt). Page limit includes references and illustrations. Pages that exceed the 2-page limit will be excluded from review. You must use the template linked above.
  • (2) CV – (5 pages maximum)

Note: The portal requires information about the PIs in addition to department and contact information, including the 10-digit USC ID#, Gender, and Ethnicity. Please have this material prepared before beginning this application.

Purpose

The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) announces its interest in receiving applications to improve our understanding of whether, when, and how quantum computing might advance the frontiers of computational science. Specifically, the purpose of this FOA is to invite applications for basic research to address the following questions: 

1. What can fundamental physical limits on quantum processors tell us about what quantum computers can and cannot do?

2. How can we use Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices to move our understanding of when and how quantum computers might be useful as far forward as possible? 

3. How can we assess the utility of a given (existing or hypothetical) quantum processor for advancing the frontiers of computational science?

Applications may address any combination of these themes.  Submitted applications should clearly identify which of the themes are addressed. Research should be backed by rigorous theory and strive to connect metrics for device performance to low-level physical parameters as well as application performance whenever possible. This program is aimed at assessing current and future quantum computers rather than developing or improving applications and algorithms.

Research proposed in response to this FOA should support the growth of an active, integrated research community committed to the common goal of developing quantum computing resources for advancing scientific discovery. Students and/or other junior researchers should have ample opportunity to participate in all aspects of the project. International collaboration and personnel exchange is encouraged.

Visit our Institutionally Limited Submission webpage for more updates and other announcements.

The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation 2024 Beckman Scholars Program

Slots: 1

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: Friday, March 24th, 2023, 5pm PT

LOI: N/A

External Deadline: June 15, 2023, 5pm PT

Award Information

Award Type: Grant

Estimated Number of Awards: Institutional 2024 Beckman Scholars Awards will be made to support approximately 14 universities and colleges, for an anticipated total of 84 undergraduate students over the three-year period. The Foundation plans to notify awardees in late December 2023 and formally announce awards the following January.

An invited university/college will be eligible for one institutional Beckman Scholar Award, which must be used over a three-year period. In 2022, the Foundation updated the Beckman Scholars Program so that each institutional Beckman Scholar Award will fund a total of six Beckman Scholars (with funding for student and mentor stipends, travel funds, and research supplies) extending over two summers and one academic year. The number of awards allocated to each awardee institution is the same regardless of the institution’s Carnegie Classification. Awardee institutions will name two Scholars in each year of the three-year institutional award term.

Anticipated Award Amount: 

Each Beckman Scholar will pursue an independent research project, under the auspices of an approved mentor. The amount of funding for the 2024 Beckman Scholars Program is $26,000; $21,000 specifically for the Scholar and $5,000 for the Scholar’s Mentor.

Link to Award: https://www.beckman-foundation.org/programs/beckman-scholars/

Process for Limited Submissions

PIs must submit their application as a Limited Submission through the Research Initiatives and Infrastructure (RII) Application Portal: https://rii.usc.edu/oor-portal/. Use the template provided here:

RII-Limited-Submission-Application-Template.

Materials to submit include:

  • (1) Two-Page Proposal Summary (0.5” margins; single-spaced; font type: Arial, Helvetica, or Georgia typeface; font size: 11 pt). Page limit includes references and illustrations. Pages that exceed the 2-page limit will be excluded from review. You must use the template linked above.
  • (2) CV – (5 pages maximum)

Note: The portal requires information about the PIs in addition to department and contact information, including the 10-digit USC ID#, Gender, and Ethnicity. Please have this material prepared before beginning this application.

Purpose

The purpose of the Beckman Scholars Program is to help stimulate, encourage, and support research activities by exceptionally talented, full-time undergraduate students who are pursuing their studies at accredited four-year colleges and universities located in the United States of America. These research activities shall be centered in either chemistry, biochemistry, the biological and medical sciences, or some interdisciplinary combination of these subjects. Candidates for the Beckman Scholars Award must be full-time students throughout the duration of the award.


The research activities performed by Beckman Scholars shall be conducted under the guidance of a full-time, approved faculty member at the college or university receiving an award. Research activities must be performed part-time (ten hours per week) during one academic year, and full-time over two summers (ten 40-hour weeks each summer) immediately before and after the academic year research experience.


Students will be named as Beckman Scholars in the spring of their freshman through junior years at their university or college. Once selected to be a Beckman Scholar, a student will retain the award for 15 months, as long as the student continues to excel academically, and the student’s research work shows satisfactory progress. Beckman Scholar funds provided to any one student may not exceed two summers and one academic year. Beckman Scholar summer funds may extend through the summer following graduation.

Visit our Institutionally Limited Submission webpage for more updates and other announcements.

Department of Energy (DOE) DE-FOA-0002960: Large Wind Turbine Materials and Manufacturing

Slots: 1

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: Contact RII.

Concept Paper Deadline: March 23, 2023, 5pm ET

External Deadline: May 9, 2023, 5pm ET

Award Information

Award Type: Cooperative Agreement

Estimated Number of Awards: 10 – 30

Anticipated Award Amount: $30M

Who May Serve as PI: 

The proposed prime recipient and subrecipient(s) must be domestic entities. The following types of domestic entities are eligible to participate as a prime recipient or subrecipient of this FOA:

  1. Institutions of higher education;
  2. For-profit entities;
  3. Non-profit entities; and
  4. State and local governmental entities, and tribal nations.

Link to Award: https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/Default.aspx#FoaId485c2512-9907-41b4-8c3d-25229afc2546

Process for Limited Submissions

PIs must submit their application as a Limited Submission through the Research Initiatives and Infrastructure (RII) Application Portal: https://rii.usc.edu/oor-portal/. Use the template provided here:

RII-Limited-Submission-Application-Template.

Materials to submit include:

  • (1) Two-Page Proposal Summary (0.5” margins; single-spaced; font type: Arial, Helvetica, or Georgia typeface; font size: 11 pt). Page limit includes references and illustrations. Pages that exceed the 2-page limit will be excluded from review. You must use the template linked above.
  • (2) CV – (5 pages maximum)

Note: The portal requires information about the PIs in addition to department and contact information, including the 10-digit USC ID#, Gender, and Ethnicity. Please have this material prepared before beginning this application.

Purpose

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is being issued by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) on behalf of the Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO). The goals of this FOA are to:

• Further develop broad, foundational, manufacturing platform technologies and address gaps and barriers that are currently limiting use of composite materials in clean energy and decarbonization-related applications with wind energy applications as the primary FOA focus;

• Enable additive manufacturing processes for rapid prototyping, tooling, fabrication, and testing of large wind blades;

• Apply additive manufacturing to non-blade wind turbine components; and

• Mature nascent technologies, processes, and methods that improve one or more aspects of advanced composites manufacturing, including automation, and sustainability (including recycling) of these materials.

These goals align with DOE’s priorities in advancing clean-energy applications and energy savings through materials and manufacturing R&D, the National Offshore Wind Strategy1 , and national offshore wind goal to “deploy 30 Gigawatts of Offshore Wind by 2030”2,3 This addresses a top priority of the Biden Administration, which seeks to achieve carbon pollution-free electricity by 2035 and to “deliver an equitable, clean energy future, and put the United States on a path to achieve net-zero emissions, economy-wide, by no later than 2050”.4 Furthermore, this FOA is well aligned with AMMTO’s strategic objectives to advance manufacturing competitiveness and enable secure and sustainable domestic supply chains for clean energy technologies in the United States.

This FOA focuses on the application of composite materials and additive manufacturing (AM) to offshore wind energy systems; however, AMMTO recognizes and encourages the broad applicability of solutions developed under this FOA to other important clean energy and decarbonization areas such as transportation, compressed gas storage, recycling, and sustainability. AMMTO is committed to pushing the frontiers of materials and manufacturing science and engineering, catalyzing clean energy jobs through research, development, demonstration, and deployment (RDD&D), and ensuring environmental justice and inclusion of underserved communities.

DOE has long-recognized “Lightweight, high-strength, and high-stiffness composite materials … as an important cross-cutting technology in U.S. manufacturing. These materials have the potential to improve the energy efficiency of the transportation sector, enable more efficient power generation, improve the storage and transport of low-carbon fuels, and improve manufacturing processes.5” To reach this potential, advanced manufacturing techniques to enable an expansion of cost-competitive production of composite materials at commercial volumes has been a key DOE target as identified in the 2015 QTR Technology Assessment6 , and the Advanced Manufacturing Office’s (AMO’s) 2017 Multi-Year Program Plan7 . This led to the creation of a Manufacturing USA institute, the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI)8 , and to AMMTO’s portfolio of composites materials and polymer AM R&D projects.

AMMTO and IACMI have focused previous and current composites work on high volume carbon, glass, bio-derived and emerging fiber composite manufacturing with end use applications including lightweight vehicles, compressed gas storage, wind turbine blades, and various industrial applications including AM tooling, together with workforce development. Benefits include light-weighting of structural and non-structural components in a range of transportation applications, the ability to enable fuel storage for low carbon hydrogen and compressed natural gas, and power generation from renewable sources such as wind and marine energy.

By focusing on wind energy materials and manufacturing technology challenges, this FOA not only seeks to support the Administration’s offshore wind goals, but also to develop manufacturing solutions that can be applied to other clean energy applications.

In February 2022, DOE published “America’s Strategy to Secure the Supply Chain for a Robust Clean Energy Transition”9 — the first comprehensive U.S. government plan to build an Energy Sector Industrial Base. In addition to the strategy report, DOE developed 13 deep-dive assessments on specific technologies and crosscutting topics – including a deep-dive report on wind energy10 . Highlights addressed by this FOA include:

• Opportunities to strengthen U.S. manufacturing capabilities, including advanced manufacturing technologies, such as additive manufacturing;

• Innovative materials that enable design-for-reuse/recycling structures;

• Next generation materials such as new, fully-recyclable, non-hazardous polymers and resins, and related demonstrations (e.g., for wind turbine blades, fuel cells and electrolyzers);

• Automation and other advancements in blade manufacturing to reduce the quantity and increase the productivity of labor content; and

• Modularization, customization, and onsite manufacturing to ease transport requirements.

The mission of AMMTO is to advance energy-related materials and manufacturing technologies to increase domestic competitiveness and build a clean, decarbonized economy. AMMTO’s vision for the future is a competitive U.S. manufacturing sector that accelerates the adoption of innovative material and manufacturing technologies in support of a clean, decarbonized economy, such as can be realized by projects under this FOA.

This FOA supports the administration goals laid out above by materials and manufacturing R&D that supports the 2030 and 2050 national offshore wind goals, addresses a top Administration priority which seeks to achieve carbon pollution-free electricity by 2035 and to “deliver an equitable, clean energy future, and put the United States on a path to achieve net-zero emissions, economy-wide, by no later than 2050.

Visit our Institutionally Limited Submission webpage for more updates and other announcements.

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