NOAA’s Weather Program Office (WPO) is soliciting proposals for four grant competitions from this notification valued at approximately $13.5 million per year as follows: 1) Innovations for Community Modeling, 2) Observations (Obs), 3) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBES), and 4) Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment in the United States (VORTEX-USA; inclusive of VORTEX-Southeast).
Donor Name: Department of Commerce
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/17/2022
Size of the Grant: $2,500,000
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
In alignment with the Weather Forecasting and Innovation Act of 2017 (Public Law 115-25), this funding opportunity will allow NOAA to support new weather, water, and earth system observing and forecasting applications, including improved analysis techniques, better statistical or dynamic forecast models and techniques, and communication of that information to better inform the public.
For the purposes of NOAA-funded projects, the maturity of projects is broadly classified using Readiness Levels (RLs), as adopted by NOAA and other federal agencies. The numerical RL scale from 1 to 9 is designed to track project maturity across the progressive spectrum from research to development to demonstration to deployment. Some competitions and science priorities in this announcement may target research at a specific maturity level and restrict proposals to specific RL ranges.
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $2,500,000
- Award Floor: $1,250,000
- The maximum time period of awards is 2 years, except for the VORTEX-USA program, which supports awards of up to 3 years.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants are responsible for ensuring that they are eligible for the competition for which they are applying. If any applicants requesting funding are ineligible, the application(s) will be rejected without review.
- Eligible applicants are:
- U.S. institutions of higher education;
- Cooperative Institutes;
- U.S.-based commercial organizations;
- State, local and Indian tribal governments in the U.S.; and
- U.S. non-profit organizations.
- No foreign (based outside of the U.S.) applicants may request funding.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
