The National Park Service (NPS) offers this grant to continue collaborating with Northern Arizona University (NAU) for enhancing the Online Launch Calendar (OLC) web application. This critical tool helps NPS manage commercial river outfitters’ compliance with the Colorado River Management Plan (CRMP). NPS gains technical expertise and quality software development, ensuring robust river use management, trend analysis, and security. NAU benefits from a valuable applied software development training program, providing faculty with current technological experience and offering students individually-mentored, real-world development experience. This significantly boosts student employability. Ultimately, this grant ensures a continually improved OLC, meeting NPS’s operational needs and public purposes.
Opportunity ID: 294690
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | P17AS00386 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Development of Online Launch Calendar, Phase III |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Natural Resources |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 1 |
| Assistance Listings: | 15.945 — Cooperative Research and Training Programs – Resources of the National Park System |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Jun 16, 2017 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Jun 25, 2017 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Jun 25, 2017 |
| Archive Date: | Jun 28, 2017 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $27,608 |
| Award Ceiling: | $27,608 |
| Award Floor: | $0 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Public and State controlled institutions of higher education |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | National Park Service |
| Description: | This task agreement frames the continued collaboration of NAU and the NPS in implementation of improvement of functionality and usability of the Online Launch Calendar (OLC) web application (refer to NAU-450 and NAU-458), which is a critical tool provided by NPS to support compliance of commercial river outfitters with the Colorado River Management Plan of 2006 (CRMP). This collaboration provides direct tangible benefits for both NPS and NAU: NPS benefits from the technical expertise of associated faculty, as well as high quality software development work; NAU benefits from an applied real-world software development training program that provides (a) participating faculty with direct contact with rapidly-evolving software technologies and development techniques, contributing to their continued professional development; and (b) participating NAU student programmers employed on this project with high-quality individually-mentored experience in real-world software development. The unusually direct long-term involvement in the full cycle of analysis, design, implementation, and deployment of real software for a real-world client makes the OLC project much more valuable than more common summer internships. The value of the applied software development training program at NAU (in which OLC is just one project) has been proven many times, as participating students have leveraged their experience on projects to compete effectively for top jobs upon graduation. For NPS, the result is a robust and secure OLC, which is continually updated and improved to help the NPS effectively manage river use, discover and learn from various use trends, meet security criteria, and fulfill the public purposes in accordance with the CRMP. |
| Link to Additional Information: | http://www.grants.gov |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
Grants Management Specialist Kelly Adams
Kelly_Adams@nps.gov Email:Kelly_Adams@nps.gov |
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Related Documents
Folder 294690 Full Announcement-P17AS00386 -> NPS-NOIP17AS00386.pdf
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