Slots: Both slots taken.
Deadlines
Internal Deadline: Monday, May 20th, 2024, 5pm PT Contact RII.
LOI: June 18, 2024
External Deadline: July 30, 2024
Award Information
Award Type: Grant
Estimated Number of Awards: Approximately 5 to 10 Seed awards and 6 to 12 Team awards are expected.
Anticipated Award Amount: DOE expects that, subject to the availability of future year appropriations, $60-70 million will be used to support grants, national laboratory authorizations, and interagency agreements under this FOA and its companion program announcement.
Who May Serve as PI: Standard DOE requirements.
Link to Award: https://science.osti.gov/-/media/grants/pdf/foas/2024/DE-FOA-0003354.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 Applicant Template
Materials to submit include:
- (1) Two-Page Proposal Summary (1” margins; single-spaced; standard font type, e.g. Arial, Helvetica, Times New Roman, 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 DOE SC program in High Energy Physics (HEP) hereby announces its interest in receiving interdisciplinary applications for open scientific research on Quantum Information Science (QIS) Enabled Discovery (QuantISED) to further the HEP mission to understand how the universe works at its most fundamental level [1]. Successful applications will help define an exploratory program where innovative solutions for scientific discovery are developed and deployed to advance HEP science drivers and contribute to QIS research and technology for public benefit. The QIS subprogram within HEP has been developed over the last few years with a series of workshops, followed by funding opportunities in 2018 and 2019 [2], and is aligned with a broader SC initiative in QIS and coordinated with various national and interagency QIS programs [3], including the National QIS Research Centers [4]. Cross-cutting the traditional frontiers and thrusts of the HEP program, the QIS subprogram exploits the interdisciplinary nature of QIS and associated partnerships for exploratory, early-stage research aimed at high impact discoveries aligned with HEP science goals, but also driving developments in foundational QIS and related scientific and technology research areas. Such research is intended to create public benefit within HEP’s Congressionally-authorized mission space by increasing human understanding of the physical universe and driving relevant developments of advanced technologies that support that mission.
Visit our Institutionally Limited Submission webpage for more updates and other announcements.