Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI)

Funding Agency:

  • National Science Foundation
RFP# and Website: 
NSF 21-617
Description: 

The Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) umbrella program seeks to enable funding opportunities that are flexible and responsive to the evolving and emerging needs in cyberinfrastructure (CI). This solicitation expands the CSSI program by adding a new project class: Transition to Sustainability. The program continues to emphasize integrated CI services, quantitative metrics with targets for delivery and usage of these services, and community creation.

The CSSI umbrella program anticipates three classes of awards:

  • Elements: These awards target small groups that will create and deploy robust services for which there is a demonstrated need, and that will advance one or more significant areas of science and engineering.
  • Framework Implementations: These awards target larger, interdisciplinary teams organized around the development and application of services aimed at solving common research problems faced by NSF researchers in one or more areas of science and engineering, and resulting in a sustainable community framework providing CI services to a diverse community or communities.
  • Transition to Sustainability: These awards target groups who would like to execute a well-defined sustainability plan for existing CI with demonstrated impact in one or more areas of science and engineering supported by NSF. The sustainability plan should enable new avenues of support for the long-term sustained impact of the CI.
Awards: 

Standard and Continuing Grants

Anticipated Funding Amount: 

Up to $10,000,000 is expected to be available for Elements awards, up to $20,000,000 is expected to be available for Framework Implementations awards, and up to $4,000,000 is expected to be available for the Transition to Sustainability awards, all subject to the availability of funds.

Letter of Intent: 
Not required
Full Proposal Submission Deadline: 

December 8, 2021

Contacts: 

Tevfik Kosar, Program Director, CISE/OAC, telephone: (703) 292-7992

Seung-Jong Park, Program Director, CISE/OAC, telephone: (703) 292-4383

Alan Sussman, Program Director, CISE/OAC, telephone: (703) 292-7563