The National Science Foundation (NSF) is offering the Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) grant to transform research and educational innovations into robust, sustained software resources, integral to its Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CF21). This grant is for fostering a pervasive cyberinfrastructure, enabling researchers to tackle complex problems by integrating computation, data, networking, and experiments in novel ways. The SI2 program aims to build a comprehensive software ecosystem across all levels of cyberinfrastructure, from sensor systems to high-end computing. It seeks to accelerate scientific discovery, enhance productivity, and develop sustainable software communities through multidisciplinary partnerships and various award classes.
Opportunity ID: 52870
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | 10-551 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Grant |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Science and Technology and other Research and Development |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 22 |
| Assistance Listings: | 47.041 — Engineering Grants |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Mar 17, 2010 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Jun 14, 2010 Letter of Intent Due Date(s) (required) (due by 5 p.m. proposer’s local time): May 10, 2010 Full Proposal Deadline(s): June 14, 2010 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Jun 14, 2010 Letter of Intent Due Date(s) (required) (due by 5 p.m. proposer’s local time): May 10, 2010 Full Proposal Deadline(s): June 14, 2010 |
| Archive Date: | – |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $11,400,000 |
| Award Ceiling: | – |
| Award Floor: | – |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | *Organization Limit: Proposals may only be submitted by the following: -Non-profit, non-academic organizations: Independent museums, observatories, research labs, professional societies and similar organizations in the U.S. associated with educational or research activities. -Universities and Colleges – Universities and two- and four-year colleges (including community colleges) accredited in, and having a campus located in the US, acting on behalf of their faculty members. Such organizations also are referred to as academic institutions. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | U.S. National Science Foundation |
| Description: | Computation is accepted as the third pillar supporting innovation and discovery in science and engineering and is central to NSF’s future vision of Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CF21)[1]. Software is an integral part of the computation paradigm and a primary modality for realizing the CF21 vision. Scientific discovery and innovation are advancing fundamentally new pathways opened by development of increasingly sophisticated software. Software is also directly responsible for increased scientific productivity and significant enhancement of researchers’ capabilities. In order to nurture, accelerate and sustain this critical mode of scientific progress, NSF is establishing a new program, Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2), with the overarching goal of transforming innovations in research and education into sustained software resources that are an integral part of the cyberinfrastructure.SI2 is a long-term investment focused on catalyzing new thinking, paradigms, and practices in using software to understand natural, human, and engineered systems. SI2’s intent is to foster a pervasive cyberinfrastructure to help researchers address problems of unprecedented scale, complexity, resolution, and accuracy by integrating computation, data, networking and experiments in novel ways. It is NSF’s expectation that SI2 investment will result in robust, reliable, usable and sustainable software infrastructure that is critical to the CF21 vision and will transform science and engineering. It is expected that SI2 will generate and nurture the multidisciplinary processes required to support the entire software lifecycle and will result in the development of sustainable software communities. SI2 envisions vibrant partnerships among academia, government laboratories and industry for the development and stewardship of a sustainable software infrastructure that can enhance productivity and accelerate innovation in science and engineering. The goal of the SI2 program is to create a software ecosystem that includes all levels of the software stack and scales from individual or small groups of software innovators to large hubs of software excellence. The program addresses all aspects of CI, from embedded sensor systems and instruments, to desktops and high-end data and computing systems, to major instruments and facilities.The SI2 program envisions three classes of awards:1. Scientific Software Elements (SSE): SSE awards target small groups that will create and deploy robust software elements for which there is a demonstrated need, encapsulating innovation in science and engineering. The effort targeted by a SSE award is up to a level roughly comparable to: summer support for two investigators with complementary expertise; two graduate students; and their collective research needs (e.g. materials, supplies, travel) for three years.2. Scientific Software Integration (SSI): SSI awards target larger groups of PIs organized around common research problems as well as common software infrastructure, and will result in a sustainable community software framework. The effort targeted by a SSI award is up to a level roughly comparable to: summer support for three to four investigators with complementary expertise; three to four graduate students; one or two senior personnel (including post-doctoral researchers, software developers, and staff); and their collective research needs (e.g., materials, supplies, travel) for three to five years. The integrative contributions of the SSI team should clearly be greater than the sum of the contributions of each individual member of the team.3. Scientific Software Innovation Institutes (S2I2): S2I2 awards will focus on the establishment of long-term community-wide hubs of software excellence. These hubs will provide expertise, processes, resources and implementation mechanism to transform computational science and engineering innovations and community software into robust and sustained tools for enabling science and engineering. S2I2 proposals will bring together multidisciplinary teams of domains scientists and engineers, computer scientists and software engineers, technologists and educators.The FY 2010 SI2 competition will be limited to SSE and SSI awards. The solicitation in FY 2011, and in subsequent years, will outline funding opportunities for all three classes of awards (SSE, SSI and S2I2), subject to availability of funds.[1] http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10015/nsf10015.jsp |
| Link to Additional Information: | NSF Publication 10-551 |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
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Packages
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| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47.070 | PKG00017532 | Mar 17, 2010 | Jun 14, 2010 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
52870 RR_SF424_1_2-1.2.pdf
52870 PerformanceSite_1_2-1.2.pdf
52870 RR_OtherProjectInfo_1_2-1.2.pdf
52870 RR_KeyPersonExpanded_1_2-1.2.pdf
52870 RR_PersonalData_1_2-1.2.pdf
52870 RR_Budget-1.1.pdf
52870 NSF_CoverPage_1_3-1.3.pdf
Optional forms
52870 RR_SubawardBudget-1.2.pdf
52870 NSF_DeviationAuthorization-1.1.pdf
52870 NSF_SuggestedReviewers-1.1.pdf
52870 NSF_Registration_1_3-1.3.pdf
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