This grant aims to support research in creating new knowledge for designing and operating interconnected critical infrastructures. It seeks to enhance the understanding and design of interdependent critical infrastructure systems that provide essential services despite disruptions. Proposals should focus on developing theoretical frameworks and computational models to predict complex behaviors, increasing resilience and readiness in infrastructure systems, and overcoming obstacles to improvement. The grant encourages transformative ideas that ensure infrastructures are effective, efficient, adaptable, and secure, emphasizing interdisciplinary research across cyber-physical, engineering, and social sciences. Projects may involve collecting new data and integrating predictive modeling into decision-making processes.
Opportunity ID: 249439
General Information
| Document Type:: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number:: | 14-524 |
| Funding Opportunity Title:: | Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Processes and Systems |
| Opportunity Category:: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation:: | |
| Funding Instrument Type:: | |
| Category of Funding Activity:: | Science and Technology and other Research and Development |
| Category Explanation:: | |
| Expected Number of Awards:: | 20 |
| Assistance Listings Number(s):: | 47.041 — Engineering Grants |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:: | No |
| Version:: | Synopsis 3 |
| Posted Date:: | Dec 20, 2013 |
| Last Updated Date:: | Sep 11, 2014 |
| Original Closing Date for Applications:: | Mar 19, 2014 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications:: | |
| Archive Date:: | Sep 11, 2014 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding:: | $ 15,000,000 |
| Award Ceiling:: | $2,500,000 |
| Award Floor:: | $300,000 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants:: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility:: | *Who May Serve as PI: Because this program is meant to support interdisciplinary research, a minimum of three investigators is required per project, the Principal Investigator (PI) and two or more co-Investigators from the lead or participating institutions who are eligible to serve as PI or co-PI on NSF proposals submitted through their respective institutions. In order to ensure an interdisciplinary approach to studying ICIs principal investigators should represent three or more distinct disciplinary areas as described in this solicitation (computer science; engineering; social, economic, and behavioral sciences). Additional PIs or senior personnel may be added to cover other interdisciplinary needs of the project. The appropriateness of the research team’s disciplinary composition and expertise will be factors in the merit review of the proposals (see Additional Review Criteria section). |
Additional Information
| Agency Name:: | National Science Foundation |
| Description:: | Critical infrastructures are the mainstay of our nation’s economy, security and health. These infrastructures are interdependent. For example, the electrical power system depends on the delivery of fuels to power generating stations through transportation services, the production of those fuels depends in turn on the use of electrical power, and those fuels are needed by the transportation services.The goals of the Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Processes and Systems (RIPS) solicitation are (1) to foster an interdisciplinary research community that discovers new knowledge for the design and operation of infrastructures as processes and services (2) to enhance the understanding and design of interdependent critical infrastructure systems (ICIs) and processes that provide essential goods and services despite disruptions and failures from any cause, natural, technological, or malicious, and (3) to create the knowledge for innovation in ICIs to advance society with new goods and services. The objectives of this solicitation are:Create theoretical frameworks and multidisciplinary computational models of interdependent infrastructure systems, processes and services, capable of analytical prediction of complex behaviors, in response to system and policy changes.Synthesize new approaches to increase resilience, interoperations, performance, and readiness in ICIs.Understand organizational, social, psychological, legal, political and economic obstacles to improving ICI’s, and identifying strategies for overcoming those obstacles.The RIPS solicitation seeks proposals with transformative ideas that will ensure ICIs services are effective, efficient, dependable, adaptable, resilient, safe, and secure. Successful proposals are expected to study multiple infrastructures focusing on them as interdependent systems that deliver services, enabling a new interdisciplinary paradigm in infrastructure research. Proposals that do not broadly integrate across the cyber-physical, engineering and social, behavioral and economic (SBE) sciences may be returned without review. Projects supported under this solicitation may undertake the collection of new data or use existing curated data depending on the category of award, and must recognize that a primary objective is integrative predictive modeling that can use the data to validate the models and which can be integrated into decision making. |
| Link to Additional Information:: | |
| Grantor Contact Information:: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact: |
Version History
| Version | Modification Description | Updated Date |
|---|---|---|
| Synopsis 3 | This opportunity is waiting for new publication. | Sep 11, 2014 |
| Synopsis 2 | This opportunity has been archived. | |
| Synopsis 1 |
Package Status
Below are CLOSED Opportunity Package(s) no longer available for this Funding Opportunity:
Package No: 1
| Assistance Listings: | 47.075 |
| Competition ID: | |
| Competition Title: | |
| Opportunity Package ID: | PKG00191258 |
| Opening Date: | Dec 20, 2013 |
| Closing Date: | Mar 19, 2014 |
| Agency Contact Information:: | Konstantinos P. Triantis |
| Who Can Apply:: | Organization and Individual Applicants |
| mendatory_forms |
SF424 (R & R) [V1.2] Project/Performance Site Location(s) [V1.4] Research And Related Other Project Information [V1.3] Research And Related Senior/Key Person Profile (Expanded) [V1.2] Research & Related Personal Data [V1.2] Research & Related Budget [V1.1] NSF Cover Page [V1.3] |
| optional_forms |
R & R Subaward Budget Attachment(s) Form [V1.2] NSF Deviation Authorization [V1.1] NSF Suggested Reviewers [V1.1] NSF FastLane System Registration [V1.3] |
Packages
| Assistance Listings | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions | Who Can Apply: | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47.075 | PKG00191258 | Dec 20, 2013 | Mar 19, 2014 | View | Konstantinos P. Triantis | Organization and Individual Applicants |