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Please join in congratulating David Wang (PI), Emporia State University, and David Alexander (PI), Wichita State University, for successful NSF High Performance Network Connections (HPNC) awards. Welcome to GPN and I2! Check out the complete list of 22 HPNC awardees.
Our lead story, by Kristen Klaver, summarizes the latest fiscal year 2002 NSF ITR announcements. Key concepts for proposals are CUTTING EDGE and INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH. More information and a searchable list of over 300 ITR awards just announced for FY2001.
PITAC (the President's Information Technology Advisory Group) met Monday and Tuesday at the National Science Foundation. Key concerns included privacy and security and the current state of the IT industry. John Miller, Montana State University, spoke at length about a plan by Grossman & Minnow, the Digital Promise Initiative, to create a national research endowment.
Michael McRobbie, VP and CIO at Indiana University, lead off a distinguished lecture series sponsored by the Large Scale Networking Committee (a working group of several US agencies). McRobbie's discussion of Global Network Requirements for Research was simulcast over the 'net. Check out future speakers.
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NSF FY2002 ITR Announcement
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced a new Information Technology Research (ITR) program announcement for Fiscal Year 2002. The program focuses on enabling research and education in multidisciplinary areas, with an emphasis on emerging opportunities at the interfaces between information technology and other disciplines. This program seeks innovative projects in research and education that elucidate, expand and exploit IT. ITR support is available for up to five years.
NSF intends to spend approximately $130 million in fiscal year 2002 on proposals received in response to this announcement. Submission of preliminary proposals is required for large projects only.
In FY2002, NSF’s ITR investments will be focused in three multidisciplinary areas:
Software and Hardware Systems: Proposals in this focus area should help create new complex systems for research and education (examples are identified in proposal announcement).
Augmenting Individuals and Transforming Society: Projects in this focus area should aim at understanding how people use information, how they can use it more easily, and how more and more people can use IT for more and more tasks (examples are identified in proposal announcement).
Scientific Frontiers and Information Technology: This focus area will support research and education activities at the interfaces of information technology and science and engineering. Projects may be either theoretical or empirical (examples are identified in proposal announcement).
Project Size
Projects are classified as small, medium or large depending on total budget.
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Small Projects (up to $500,000 total budget): The proposals should be individual or small-group projects, should be innovative and high risk, must involve activities in a focus areas above.
Medium Projects (up to $5 million total budget and no more than $1 million a year): The proposals should describe substantial and ambitious research and education projects (e.g. multidisciplinary activities with multiple PIs and/or institutions).
Large Projects (up to $15 million total budget and no more than $3 million a year): Pre-proposals are required. Based on the pre-proposal, a PI may be invited by NSF to then submit a full proposal. NSF seeks proposals that address very large, long-term, coordinated research and education efforts.
Deadlines
Letters of Intent are optional, but it's always a good idea to contact a program director at NSF to make sure you submit to the correct program or, in some cases, combination of programs.
Preliminary proposals, required for large projects only, are due November 9, 2001.
Full Proposal Deadline Dates:
- November 13, 2001 - Medium Projects
- February 6, 2002 - Small Projects
- April 4, 2002 - Large Projects
For the entire solicitation, check out NSF's ITR web site.
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