The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) seeks to support foundational research that contributes to advancing the state of the science through novel, nuanced, innovative and rigorous scientific inquiry using diverse and non traditional strategies.
Donor Name: Science and Technology Directorate
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/23/2023
Size of the Grant: $3,513,943
Grant Duration: 24 months
Details:
S&T is committed to upholding ethical standards in the design, development, and use of artificial intelligence/machine learning systems and expects funding recipients to share this commitment. These ethical standards are based on the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, which instructs that individuals should:
- Be protected from unsafe or ineffective systems;
- Not face discrimination by algorithms, and systems should be used and designed in an equitable way;
- Be protected from abusive data practices via built-in protections and should have agency over how data about them is used;
- Know that an automated system is being used and understand how and why it contributes to outcomes that impact them; and
- Be able to opt out, where appropriate, and have access to a person who can quickly consider, and remedy problems individuals encounter.
Objectives
This notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) aims to:
- Conduct basic and applied research to improve their understanding of how and why individuals radicalize to violence, mobilize to violence, and disengage from violence using diverse and non-traditional research strategies from a multidisciplinary perspective.
- Understand the efficacy of non-government, online interventions to prevent, deter, or otherwise mitigate negative outcomes and harms related to online behaviors as they are related to Homeland Security missions. Please note that any activities conducted for research purposes must include an independent and objective evaluation component to understand outcomes and, if possible, impacts of interventions that are measurable and repeatable.
- Ensure key stakeholders such as federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial partners, community-based organizations, violence prevention practitioners, and members of the public have the knowledge and tools required to support the implementation of effective prevention and intervention programming.
This NOFO will prioritize investigations of historical terrorist and targeted violence acts, events, and movements that occur within the United States and its territories, or that targets its citizens specifically. The focus of this NOFO is to advance the understanding of behaviors and motivations to engage in terrorist or targeted violence activities, to inform greater understanding and provide situational awareness regarding terrorist movements, and to inform the creation of prevention, diversion, and rehabilitation strategies for those involved. Proposals focused on traditional counter terrorism or statesponsored adversarial behaviors will not be prioritized. Proposals that seek to predict future patterns of behavior or threats will not be prioritized.
Priorities
- Research to Understand Trends, Nature, Causes, and Correlates in Terrorism and Targeted Violence in the United States.
- Research on the Implementation of Evidence-Based and Best Practices in Terrorism Prevention and Intervention Research
- Research Applying Computational Social Science to Homeland Security Needs
- Analysis of Online Intervention Programs
Funding Information
- Available Funding for the NOFO: $9,513,943
- Priority (i) – $3,513,943
- Priority (ii) – $2,000,000
- Priority (iii) – $2,000,000
- Priority (iv) – $2,000,000
Period of Performance
24 months
Eligible Applicants
- Nonprofit with 501C3 IRS Status (Other than Institution of Higher Education)
- Private Institution of Higher Education
- For-Profit Organization (Other than Small Business)
- Small Business
- Hispanic-serving Institution
- Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
- Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs)
- Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions
- Non-domestic (non-US) Entity
Applicant Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for this program, must meet the below requirements:
- Applicants must not be a government organization.
- National laboratory employees may participate in planning, conducting, and analyzing the activities directed by the applicant, but may not direct projects on behalf of the applicant organization.
- The standards organization may provide funds through its assistance agreement with DHS to an FFRDC for project-specific, non-federal research personnel, supplies, equipment, facilities, data, and other expenses directly related to activities under this cooperative agreement.
- Federal agencies may not apply. Federal employees are not eligible to serve in a principal leadership role on a grant or cooperative agreement and may not receive salaries or in other ways augment their agency’s appropriations through awards made by this program.
- Nonetheless, federal employees may interact substantively with recipients in the form of cooperation.
- Cooperation involves consulting on the planning, management, and coordination of standards organization and/or information sharing and analysis organization activities, sharing or comparing information, indicators, samples, equipment, facilities, data, models, or other support during the conduct of the standards development and related activities in which the interaction is substantial and requires the award of a cooperative agreement, rather than a grant.
- Substantial involvement occurs when the collaboration or cooperation of a federal employee or facility is necessary to achieving the overall goals of the activities supported by this cooperative agreement.
Other Eligibility Criteria
Privacy, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties:
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- Proposed projects shall not infringe on individual privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties. Applications shall describe any potential impacts to privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties and ways in which applicants will prevent or mitigate those impacts and administer their projects in a nondiscriminatory manner. Applications that describe programs, projects, or activities that do not appropriately protect privacy, civil rights, or civil liberties will be deemed ineligible for funding.
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