NASA Opportunity! ROSES-24 Amendment 14: F.19 Research Initiation Awards

This opportunity is from NASA Headquarters and is independent from the South Dakota Space Grant Consortium or South Dakota NASA EPSCoR Program.

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Opportunity for early-stage research related to NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD).

• R1 institutions are not eligible
• Up to $300,000 for 24 month award
• Technical proposal length: 6 pages
• Anticipated number of awards:  10-15
• Proposal due date:  15 August 2024

SMD divisions:

• Astrophysics
• Biological and Physical Sciences
• Earth Science
• Heliophysics
• Planetary Science

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F.19 Research Initiation Awards (RIA) aims to broaden the base of institutions involved in the SMD research and technology development ecosystem. The program has two principal objectives:

1. Enable investigators with no prior or recent research funding to pursue research at institutions underrepresented in the SMD ecosystem to initiate activities that, over the course of a two-year period, will provide the foundation for a competitive, sustainable, and productive program of research.
2. Enable undergraduate students affiliated with the proposing investigator to perform cutting-edge research in an SMD-relevant field. Funding for undergraduate students is a required element of the proposed project.

RIA has the following eligibility requirements:

• First, the proposing institution may not be a “Doctoral University with Very High Research Activity” (i.e., an R1 institution) according to the Carnegie Classification guide.
  • Second, the PI may not have received federal funding as PI of a project that is related to the proposed research activities within the last five years (with exceptions described in Section 2.2).

RIA proposals must be relevant to NASA’s Science Mission Directorate research goals. The proposed candidate investigation(s) may be analytical, experimental, observational, computational, theoretical, or use data analytical approaches. An RIA award, including indirect costs, must not exceed $300,000 for a duration of 24 months, and the funding may be split in uneven amounts for each of the two years. This program will evaluate proposals using dual-anonymous peer review.

Proposals are due August 15, 2024.

A proposer’s overview webinar is scheduled for June 6, 2024, from 1-2:30 p.m. Eastern Time. Those who register at https://nasa-gov.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_pSKzagdRQNeeeDw19seGFA will receive a Zoom calendar invitation that will be updated with connect information. To submit questions prior or during the webinar, please register for the event and use https://nasa.cnf.io/sessions/px8b/#!/dashboard to submit questions. All questions will be submitted anonymously and may be upvoted.

Questions concerning F.19 RIA may be directed to Maggie Yancey at  hq-smd-ria@mail.nasa.gov.

On or about May 16, 2024, this Amendment to the NASA Research Announcement “Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) 2024” (NNH24ZDA001N) will be posted on the NASA research opportunity homepage at https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2024 and will appear on SARA’s ROSES blog at: https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/solicitations/roses-2024/