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NEWLY ADDED OPPORTUNITIES
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POST DATE: 08/31/2026
FUNDING CATEGORY: Arts & Humanities, Business, Management & Commerce, Environment & Climate, Marine & Ocean, Sustainability
OPPORTUNITY: Exploring and Enhancing Outdoor and Heritage Tourism in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
FUNDING AGENCY: DOI
AWARD AMOUNT: $50,000
FULL PROPOSAL DEADLINE: November 4, 2026
POST DATE: 08/31/2026
FUNDING CATEGORY: Arts & Humanities
OPPORTUNITY: National Gallery Senior Fellowship Program
FUNDING AGENCY: National Gallery of Art
AWARD AMOUNT: $50,000
FULL PROPOSAL DEADLINE: October 15, 2026
POST DATE: 08/31/2026
FUNDING CATEGORY: Health & Medicine
OPPORTUNITY: Long-term health outcomes of people living with spina bifida
FUNDING AGENCY: HHS
AWARD AMOUNT: $300,000
FULL PROPOSAL DEADLINE: October 26, 2026
Computer Science & Data Science, Engineering
Automated Processes for Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval
DOD | LOI DUE DATE: 09/09/2029 |
OPPORTUNITY: Automated Processes for Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval
FUNDING AGENCY: DOD
AWARD AMOUNT: $3,000,000 – $35,000,000
LETTER OF INTENT DEADLINE: September 9, 2029
DESCRIPTION: Seeking innovative research to develop, demonstrate, integrate, test, evaluate, and deliver technologies that process and exploit multi-source, multi-domain classified, open source, non-traditional source data to improve Battlespace Awareness, derive decision quality information, and automate analysis/decision processes.
NOTE: Air Force Research Laboratory
Engineering, Health & Medicine, Natural & Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Workforce Development
Staff Research Program – US Army Materiel Command (AMC)
DOD | FULL PROPOSAL DEADLINE: 06/02/2030FULL PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Rolling Deadline
OPPORTUNITY: Staff Research Program – US Army Materiel Command (AMC)
FUNDING AGENCY: DOD
AWARD AMOUNT: TBD
FULL PROPOSAL DEADLINE: June 2, 2030
FULL PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Rolling Deadline
DESCRIPTION: Abstract The ARO is soliciting proposals for Staff Research Program opportunities. The purpose of the program is to enable ARO scientific staff to maintain and expand professional competence in support of fulfilling the ARO mission through the conduct of hands-on, basic research. The staff research will be performed collaboratively with institutions external to ARO. Staff research efforts will involve scientific study directed toward advancing the state-of-the-art or increasing knowledge and scientific understanding in engineering, physical, life and information sciences, when there is an intersection with the interests and capabilities of the participating external institutions in these basic research areas.
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