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The NIST Standards Coordination Office Curricula Development Cooperative Agreement Program (SCOCD CAP) is seeking applications from eligible applicants for activities to develop undergraduate and/or graduate level curricula to incorporate documentary standards, standards development, and standardization of information and content into seminars, modules, courses, and learning resources. The recipients will work with NIST to strengthen education and learn about documentary standards, standards development, and standardization.

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Standards Coordination Office Curricula Development Cooperative Agreement Program

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Supports a network of centers providing technical assistance, workforce development, and business services to small and mid-sized manufacturers.

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Measurement Science and Engineering (MSE) Research Grant Programs

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The CHIPS Incentives Program aims to catalyze long-term economically sustainable growth in the domestic semiconductor industry in support of U.S. economic and national security. This is the second Notice of Funding Opportunity under this program and seeks applications for projects for the construction, expansion, or modernization of commercial facilities for semiconductor materials and manufacturing equipment. For more information, additional resources, and instructions on how to apply, please visit chips.gov. Note that all applications must be submitted through the CHIPS Incentives Portal at https://applications.chips.gov. If you have any questions on how to apply, please email apply@chips.gov.

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CHIPS Incentives Program – Facilities for Semiconductor Materials and Manufacturing Equipment

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CHIPS Research and Development Office (CRDO) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)

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NIST is soliciting proposals from eligible applicants for research, prototyping, and commercial solutions that advance microelectronics technology in the U.S., to be considered for funding by the CHIPS Research and Development Office (CRDO).

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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) (Public Law 111-5) appropriated $180 million to NIST for a competitive construction grant program for research science buildings. Additional information on the program was provided on page 418 of the Conference Report to accompany House Report 111-16 (Feb. 12, 2009): . . . $180,000,000 shall be for the competitive construction grant program for research science buildings, including fiscal year 2008 and 2009 competitions. Consistent with the Conference Report language NIST intends to issue grant awards for approximately $60 million to unfunded meritorious proposals submitted under the fiscal year 2008 competition and issue grant awards for approximately $120 million under a new fiscal year 2009 competition.The goals and objectives of the program are to provide competitively awarded grant funds for research science buildings through the construction of new buildings or expansion of existing buildings. For purposes of this program, research science building means a building or facility whose purpose is to conduct scientific research, including laboratories, test facilities, measurement facilities, research computing facilities, and observatories. In addition, expansion of existing buildings means that space to conduct scientific research is being expanded from what is currently available for the supported research activities.Consistent with Section 3 of the Recovery Act, the projects undertaken through this program will result in the preservation of jobs and the promotion of economic recovery; the provision of investments needed to increase economic efficiency by spurring technological advances; and the investment in infrastructure that will provide long-term economic benefits. Activities will be commenced as quickly as possible while ensuring prudent management.NIST anticipates funding 8-12 projects with the Federal shares in the $10 million - $15 million range and with a project period of performance of up to five (5) years, although there is an expectation that most of the projects will be completed prior to 5 years. The anticipated start date will be one month after the award is made. The period of performance depends on the construction schedule proposed. Although cost sharing is not required it is encouraged for a proposal to be selected for funding. A cost share of 25% would be viewed favorably, 50% even more favorably.Cost sharing is that portion of the project costs not borne by the Federal government and includes direct and indirect costs. Sources of cost share include cash and third party in-kind contributions. Cash contributions can be from recipient, state, county, city, or other non-Federal sources. Third party in-kind contributions can be made by non-Federal third parties and can include, but are not limited to, equipment and materials and supplies.The purchase of land cannot be used as cost sharing. See also section IV.6. Funding Restrictions.Any cost sharing must be in accordance with the cost sharing or matching provisions of 15 CFR Part 14, Uniform Administrative Requirements for Grants and Cooperative Agreements with Institutions of Higher Education, Hospitals, Other Non-Profit, and Commercial Organizations.As with the Federal share, any costs included as cost share must be allowable under the following applicable Federal cost principles: 1) Institutions of Higher Education: 2 CFR Subtitle A, Chapter II, Part 220 (OMB Circular A-21); and 2) Nonprofit organizations: 2 CFR Subtitle A, Chapter II, Part 230 (OMB Circular A-122).The following projects are unallowable/ineligible under this program:a. Projects to construct or expand a building not intended for performing research or that will predominately be equipped with routine office equipment and/or lecture/class room furnishings.b. Projects to construct facilities that will primarily benefit undergraduate research training programs, rather than the creation of new graduate level research programs, or expanding existing graduate level research programs.c. Projects to construct facilities that will primarily benefit the education of the general public rather than support research activities.d. Projects that include tasks for constructing shell space that will not be completed into research space within the grant will have these tasks removed.

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory (CSTL) announces that the Professional Research Experience Program (PREP-CSTL) is soliciting applications for financial assistance from accredited colleges and universities to enable those institutions to provide laboratory experiences and financial assistance to undergraduate and graduate students and post-doctoral associates in the CSTL at the NIST, Gaithersburg Laboratories in Gaithersburg, Maryland. In Gaithersburg, the CSTL carries out programs in the following fields of measurement science research, focused on reference methods, reference materials and reference data: Biochemical Science, Chemical and Biochemical Reference Data, Process Measurements, Surface and Microanalysis Science, Thermophysical Properties, and Analytical Chemistry. Financial support may be provided for conferences, workshops, or other technical research meetings that are relevant to the mission of the CSTL. The objectives of the PREP-CSTL are to encourage the growth and progress of science and engineering in the United States by providing research opportunities for students and post-doctoral associates, enabling them to collaborate with internationally known NIST scientists, exposing them to cutting-edge research. The PREP-CSTL will promote students pursuit of degrees in science and engineering, and post-doctoral associates professional development in science and engineering. The PREP-CSTL Coordinator and NIST/CSTL scientists will coordinate with appropriate division chiefs, outreach coordinators, and directors of multi-disciplinary academic organizations to identify students and programs that would benefit from the PREP-CSTL experience. Applicants must be able to ensure the availability of students for on-site collaborative research experiences at the NIST/CSTL Laboratories in Gaithersburg, Maryland, concurrent with their university studies. Any participating student must also be enrolled in an academic program acceptable to both the sponsoring institution and NIST/CSTL. Cost sharing and matching are not required under this program. However, applicants are encouraged to cost share on a voluntary basis. Voluntary cost sharing may include any eligible costs under the applicable cost principles that meet the test of reasonableness, allocability, and allowability. Indirect costs also are eligible project costs and applicants are encouraged to propose to cover them as cost share under this program. Any indirect costs proposed in an application under this program must not exceed the indirect cost rate negotiated with the applicant s cognizant or oversight Federal agency prior to the proposed effective date of the award.

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology invites proposals from eligible organizations for projects to develop client engagement or business models and deployment strategies that integrate two or more of the MEP Strategic Growth Areas. The projects should further demonstrate in its proposed client engagement or business model, the benefit of this integration and how the approach can expand service capability and capacity of the MEP system. The five MEP Strategic Growth Areas are: supply chain, sustainability, technology acceleration, workforce and continuous improvement. Proposals should include a plan, a client engagement or business model and deployment strategy for the project, and an approach for leveraging existing tools, resources and partnerships. The objective of these projects is to demonstrate the ability to strengthen, through an integrated transformational growth services model, the global competitiveness of small- and medium-sized U.S. based manufacturing firms. Project specific performance measurement and management approaches, including key milestones, are crucial to the evaluation of these projects. NIST is seeking projects that present novel and new approaches to delivering and communicating performance measurement and evaluation. For example, those projects that incorporate the following factors will be considered competitive: internal performance measurement for management control, external evaluation for assessing outcomes of the activity, and customer satisfaction measures of performance. This could include approaches to gathering outcome information, comparisons of outcomes achieved by project clients or other approaches to performance measurement and evaluation. The MEP program places high importance on ensuring that projects be well aligned with the work of MEP service providers in order to maximize the potential and impact of existing resources. Additional background information on MEP service providers is provided at http://www.nist.gov/mep.

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NIST is soliciting proposals for financial assistance from eligible proposers to support basic research focused on the long-term research needs of industry in the area of post-CMOS nanoelectronics. There is a critical need to create novel nanoelectronics technologies that operate at low energies and that can outperform today s CMOS technologies. These technologies should include innovative device, circuit, and architecture approaches which can involve logic, memory, sensors, or analog components.

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NIST is soliciting proposals from eligible applicants for a program with substantial NIST participation that will support continuous innovation of the electrical grid through the coordination and acceleration of standards development and harmonization and advancement of the interoperability and security of smart grid devices and systems. The applicant will work with NIST in its fulfillment of standards coordination activities as mandated under the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA).

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is soliciting applications from eligible U.S. public school districts or U.S. accredited private educational institutions nominating middle school science teachers to participate in the NIST Summer Institute for Middle School Science Teachers (NIST Summer Institute or Program), which provides hands-on activities, lectures, tours, and visits with scientists and engineers in NIST laboratories. The NIST Summer Institute will be held at the NIST Campus in Gaithersburg, Maryland on July 18-29, 2011.

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) is establishing a financial assistance program for awardees to develop and implement with the CNST a Postdoctoral Researcher and Visiting Fellow Measurement Science and Engineering Program. This program is intended to promote research, training, and practical experience in nanoscale science and technology on-site at the CNST, and to advance the CNST s mission to support the development of nanotechnology through research on measurement and fabrication methods, standards and technology, and by operating a state-of-the-art nanofabrication facility, the NanoFab. The primary program objectives are: 1.To advance, through cooperative efforts with one or more universities, research consistent with the mission of NIST, and CNST specifically. See http://www.nist.gov/cnst/ and 15 U.S.C. Sec. 271 et seq. 2.To provide training for the next generation of nanotechnologists by providing recent Ph.D. recipients postdoctoral positions ( Postdoctoral Researchers ) to perform research at the CNST under the mentorship of a CNST Project Leader. The Postdoctoral Researchers must show promise as contributors to the mission of the CNST, and be selected on the basis of ability and of the relevance of the proposed work to the mission of the CNST. 3.To provide advanced training and access to the CNST s expertise and instrumentation by providing practicing scientists and engineers in the public and private sectors visiting senior research positions ( Visiting Fellows ) to perform research at the CNST in collaboration with a CNST Project Leader. The Visiting Fellows must be selected on the basis of ability and on the relevance of the proposed work to the mission of the CNST. 4.To provide Postdoctoral Researchers and Visiting Fellows under this program with professional development opportunities, including travel to relevant workshops and conferences. 5.To encourage U.S. industrial, university, and government scientists to participate in research at the CNST, either in collaboration with the CNST research program or by using the NanoFab, by providing support for travel and local expenses for participants traveling beyond a normal commuting distance to the CNST in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

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NIST Gaithersburg is soliciting applications from eligible colleges and universities located in the U.S. and its territories nominating undergraduate students to participate in the SURF NIST Gaithersburg Programs. The SURF NIST Gaithersburg Programs will provide research opportunities for undergraduate students to work with internationally known NIST scientists, to expose them to cutting-edge research, and to promote the pursuit of graduate degrees in science and engineering.

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Since 1970, NIST, as part of its research program, has provided funding under the Precision Measurement Grant Program (PMGP) primarily to universities and colleges so that faculty may conduct significant research in the field of fundamental measurement or the determination of fundamental constants. NIST sponsors these research projects primarily to encourage basic, measurement-related research in universities and colleges and other research laboratories and to foster contacts between NIST scientists and those faculty members of academic institutions and other researchers who are actively engaged in such work. The PMGP is also intended to make it possible for researchers to pursue new ideas for which other sources of support may be difficult to find. There is some latitude in research topics that will be considered under the PMGP. The key requirement is that the proposed project is consistent with NIST s ongoing work in the field of basic measurement science (http://pml.nist.gov). Abbreviated proposals must be submitted under the PMGP in order to be considered for funding. Details of the submission process for abbreviated proposals are contained in the Full Announcement. Only proposers whose proposals have been selected by NIST as finalists and who have been requested by NIST to submit a full proposal are permitted to submit full proposals to NIST for the PMGP.

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), United States (U.S.) Department of Commerce (DoC), is soliciting grant proposals for the construction of new research science buildings or for the expansion of existing buildings to increase the space currently available for supported scientific research activities.For purposes of this Program, research science building means a building or facility whose purpose is for the conduct of scientific research, including laboratories, test facilities, measurement facilities, research computing facilities, and observatories. In addition, expansion of existing buildings means that space to conduct scientific research is being expanded from what is currently available for the supported research activities.The review, selection, and grant award processing is expected to be completed in August 2011. The earliest anticipated start date for awards made under this Announcement of Federal Funding Opportunity is October 1, 2011.

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NIST announces that the PREP-MML is soliciting applications for financial assistance from accredited institutions of higher education in the United States and its territories to enable those institutions to provide laboratory experiences and financial assistance to undergraduate and graduate students and post-doctoral associates in the MML at the NIST Laboratories in Gaithersburg, Maryland and Charleston, South Carolina.

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NIST is soliciting applications from eligible public school districts and accredited private educational institutions located in the U.S. and its territories nominating middle school science teachers to participate in the NIST Summer Institute Program. The NIST Summer Institute Program will provide selected teachers hands-on activities, lectures, tours, and visits with NIST scientists and engineers at the NIST Campus in Gaithersburg, Maryland. There are two ways to apply for this program: by paper application or by electronic application. Paper Submission: Dr. Susan Heller-Zeisler National Institute of Standards and Technology International and Academic Affairs Office 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 1090 Gaithersburg, MD 20899-1090 Phone: 301-975-3111 Electronic (E-mail) Submission: summerinstitute@nist.gov

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NIST is soliciting applications from eligible public school districts and accredited private educational institutions located in the U.S. and its territories nominating middle school science teachers, who have successfully completed the NIST Summer Institute for Middle School Science Teachers (NIST Summer Institute) Program, to participate in the NIST RET Program. The NIST RET Program will allow the selected teachers to participate in scientific research with NIST scientists and engineers at the NIST Campus in Gaithersburg, Maryland. There are two ways to apply to the program: by paper submission or by electronic submission. Paper Submissions should be sent to: Dr. Mary Satterfield National Institute of Standards and Technology Biochemical Science Division 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8310 Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8310 Phone: 301-975-5364 Electronic (E-mail) Submissions should be sent to: ret@nist.gov .

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NIST is soliciting proposals from eligible proposers to pilot on-line identity solutions that embrace and advance the NSTIC vision: that individuals and organizations utilize secure, efficient, easy-to-use, and interoperable identity credentials to access online services in a manner that promotes confidence, privacy, choice, and innovation. Specifically, the Federal government seeks to initiate and support pilots that address the needs of individuals, private sector organizations and all levels of government in accordance with the NSTIC Guiding Principles that identity solutions will be (1) privacy-enhancing and voluntary, (2) secure and resilient, (3) interoperable, and (4) cost-effective and easy-to-use. NIST will fund pilot projects that are intended to test or demonstrate new solutions, models or frameworks that do not exist in the marketplace today.

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NIST invites proposals from eligible proposers for funding projects that provide manufacturing extension services to primarily small- and medium-sized manufacturers in the United States. These projects will establish MEP centers in South Dakota and Kentucky.

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NIST is soliciting proposals for financial assistance for fiscal year (FY) 2013 from eligible applicants to advance innovation in measurement science for additive manufacturing. Proposals should address development of measurement science to support high-priority metrology and standards required to advance U.S. technical programs, technology transition, and commercial activities in additive manufacturing technology.