The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announces the opportunity to apply for a total of $5,000,000 from Fiscal Years (FY) 2022, 2023, and 2024 in Public Transportation Innovation Program funds for a competitive cooperative agreement to develop and manage a new FTA Technology Transfer (T2) Program.
Donor Name: Department of Transportation
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/11/2025
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 4 Years
Details:
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Public Transportation Innovation Program funds research, development, demonstration, and deployment projects, and evaluation of research and technology of national significance to public transportation that will improve public transportation. On average, on a yearly basis, FTA manages a research investment portfolio of over $200 million in active projects. When these projects identify and finalize useful, promising solutions and practices, it is essential that FTA has a way to quickly facilitate the deployment of these findings to transit agencies for their use.
This notice announces a new Technology Transfer (T2) Program to promote the early deployment and demonstration of innovation in public transportation that has broad applicability to public transportation. The T2 program will seek to build on successful research, innovation, and development efforts to facilitate the deployment of research and technology development resulting from federally funded efforts and the implementation of research and technology development to advance the interests of public transportation. A quarterly planning process between the FTA Research Office and the recipient of this award will facilitate the selection of which programs and projects to deploy. T2 will also support ensuring that FTA’s Innovative Research activities meet Executive Order 14104, Federal Research and Development in Support of Domestic Manufacturing and United States Jobs (88 FR 51203). This Executive Order calls for the enhancement of U.S. manufacturing while encouraging technology transfer and commercialization and allowing small businesses and nonprofit organizations to retain ownership of and commercialize their federally funded products or inventions. As appropriate, T2 will also provide an opportunity for recipients of FTA innovative research funding to not only broadly share their research or inventions but to potentially commercialize them.
The goals of the T2 program are to:
- Develop processes, systems, and resources to support the deployment and adoption of FTA’s innovative research results in the public transportation industry.
- Support the commercialization and production of technologies developed in the U.S., in part through FTA-funded research and development.
- Overcome barriers and challenges affecting the adoption of research products in transit agencies.
Funding Information
This notice announces the availability of $5,000,000 to award one competitively selected application to develop and manage FTA’s T2 program with an expected period of performance spanning at least 48 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- City or township governments
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Small businesses
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- County governments
- State governments.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
