Research NewsletterIssue: ORN-2022-50

Happy Holidays!

Wish you and your family and friends Happy Holidays

and a

Very Happy, Prosperous and Healthy New Year 2023

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New NSF 2023 Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG)

NSF 23-1: Effective for proposals submitted or due on or after January 30, 2023

https://beta.nsf.gov/policies/pappg/23-1

Overall Changes:

• Editorial changes have been made throughout to either clarify or enhance the intended meaning of a sentence or section. 
• References to Research.gov have been incorporated throughout, as part of the final transition from FastLane to Research.gov for proposal preparation and submission.
• Website and document references have been updated to reflect current information. 
• Updates have been made to ensure consistency with data contained in NSF systems or guidance located and terminology used in other NSF or Federal policy documents.

NSF: Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI)Design for Environmental Sustainability in Computing (DESC)Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF)Research Coordination Networks (RCN); Enabling Partnerships to Increase Innovation Capacity (EPIIC); NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM); Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*)

Department of Energy: FY 2023 Funding for Accelerated, Inclusive Research (FAIR); Quantum Information Science Research for Fusion Energy Sciences; Research Basic Plasma Science and Engineering

NASA: ROSES 2022: Space Biology: Research Studies; ROSES 2022: High Priority Open-Source Science

Standards Development a ‘Critical’ Issue for US-EU Trade and Tech Council: The bilateral group’s agenda heading into 2023 will include emerging technologies like quantum computing and artificial intelligence, State Department Undersecretary Jose Fernandez said. Promoting economic growth and cooperating on emerging technology development are the U.S-EU Trade and Technology Council’s primary goals moving forward, following a meeting featuring global emissaries in College Park, Maryland earlier in December. Fernandez specified that some of the subjects the working groups will focus on include cultivating universal standards for new technologies. He referenced the joint artificial intelligence roadmap for member countries to navigate risk management harmoniously, as well as how AI and machine learning technologies stand to impact the workforce. Fostering more collaboration for research and innovation in the quantum information sciences is also on the council’s docket, as is developing universal standards for new technologies so as to facilitate the international transfer of tech products and data. Developing common international standards for emerging technologies is important for the U.S. to maintain economic and scientific leadership, according to experts. In September, Elham Tabassi, the lead at the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Trustworthy and Responsible AI Program, testified during a Congressional hearing on the importance of the U.S. proactively working on standards development. 

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White House Announces $1.2B Effort to Improve Access to STEMM Education: The Biden-Harris administration announced new commitments to further education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicinal research on Monday, with a focus on eliminating the systemic barriers barring disenfranchised populations from participation in quantitative research fields. During the White House Summit on STEMM Equity and Excellence, administration officials—including Arati Prabhakar, the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Cindy Marten, deputy secretary for the U.S. Department of Education—joined other officials and industry leaders to discuss collaborating for a more equitable STEMM education system. “Today’s STEMM ecosystem is inequitable by nearly every measure, shutting out and diverting away too many talented individuals, closing off opportunities for discovery and innovation, and limiting our national potential,” the White House press announcement reads. Between federal and industry funding from more than 90 partners, the Biden-Harris administration is set to direct an effort across multiple sectors that, combined, will invest over $1.2 billion toward STEMM education equity. The new STEMM Opportunity Alliance will be tasked with coordinating these funds across multiple initiatives to increase accessibility in competitive academic fields.

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NTIA Wants to Know How Best to Spend $1.5B in Grants for Secure, Open 5G: The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is inviting public comment on how to structure a $1.5 billion grant program aimed at reducing reliance on foreign providers of fifth-generation networking technology. “The highly consolidated global market for wireless equipment creates serious risks for both consumers and U.S. companies,” NTIA Administrator Alan Davidson said in a press release Monday. “Our $1.5 billion fund will jumpstart innovation in the industry and open it up to a more diverse set of suppliers. We expect the increase in competition to lead to more secure, resilient and cost-effective networks.”  The fund was authorized under the FY 2021 National Defense Authorization Act as the U.S. sought to cut ties with Chinese suppliers of fifth-generation—or 5G—telecommunications equipment over security concerns raised by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in 2012, according to a Federal Register notice set to publish Tuesday. It was later appropriated through the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022.  Among other things, the money will go to promoting and deploying software, hardware and microprocessing technology that work together across different brands to securely provide a radio access network, or RAN. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

Question:       Can I generate budgets for multiple years from the Year-1 budget in Streamlyne?

Answer:          Yes! You only need to input the Year-1 budget and then click on the “generate all periods” button. Stremalyne will create budget sheets for the remaining periods. You can then go to “summary” under the budget tab to review budget sheets for all periods. You can also change specific budget items that you allocated in Year-1 but you do not want to continue them in the following periods.

More FAQs on Streamlyne: Please visit http://www.njit.edu/research/streamlyne/