Research NewsletterIssue: ORN-2021-42

Office of Research Events: Fall 2021

Event: NJIT NSF CAREER Award Panel Discussion

When:  November 4, 2021; 2.00 PM to 4.00 PM

Where: Ballroom B, Student Campus Center

Brief Description: All faculty interested in NSF CAREER award submission are invited to 2021 NJIT NSF CAREER Award Panel Discussion event. The event will highlight the requirements for NSF CAREER award. NJIT faculty who have recently received the prestigious NSF CAREER award will share their experience and discuss the best practices on successful proposal preparation. The detailed agenda will be announced shortly.

Event: National Academy of Inventors (NAI) – NJIT Chapter Workshop: Sustainable Societies and Climate Change

When:  November 15, 2021; 10.00 AM to 1.00 PM (Lunch at 12.00 PM followed by the Faculty Research Showcase)

Where: Ballroom A&B, Student Campus Center

Brief Description: The Sustainable Societies and Climate Change workshop is sponsored by the Office of Research and National Academy of Inventors (NAI) – NJIT Chapter as a part of the workshop series on “Innovations to Sustainable Solutions” focused on NJIT Research Grand Challenges: Healthcare Innovations, Sustainable Communities, and Next-Generation Computing and Cyberinfrastructure. The workshop will feature a Distinguished keynote address, panel discussions and round-table discussions with faculty and multidisciplinary stakeholders from academia, industry, businesses, and government. All faculty, students and researchers are invited to attend. More details about the program agenda will be announced shortly.

Event:  Faculty Research Showcase

When:  November 15, 2021, from 12.00 PM to 3.00 PM (with Lunch at 12.00 PM)

Where: Ballroom A&B, Student Campus Center

Brief Description: The Faculty Research Showcase will introduce new faculty who joined NJIT in AY22 with individual 3-minutes ppt podium presentations. The showcase will also feature podium ppt presentations by FY22 Faculty Seed Grant (FSG) recipients. The showcase will be held in the in-person mode at the campus but will also be streamed live via WebEx for additional remote audience. The showcase will provide a unique opportunity to learn about research expertise of our new faculty towards developing future research collaborations. Through Faculty Seed Grant (FSG) presentations, you will know more about some of the recent multidisciplinary basic, applied, and translational research initiatives of high potential impact. All faculty, students and researchers are invited to attend. The detailed program agenda will be announced shortly.

NSF: Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC); Office of Polar Programs Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (OPP-PRF); Tectonics; Organismal Response to Climate Change (ORCC): Expanding Understanding and Improving Predictions of Life on a Warming Planet; Designing Accountable Software Systems (DASS); Computer and Network Systems (CNS): Core Programs, LargeNSF; CISE Community Research Infrastructure (CCRI); Biodiversity on a Changing Planet (BoCP); Principles and Practice of Scalable Systems (PPoSS); Research and Mentoring for Postbaccalaureates in Biological Sciences (RaMP); Human Networks and Data Science (HNDS); NSF Major Research Instrumentation Program: (MRI); Macrosystems Biology and NEON-Enabled Science (MSB-NES); Launching Early-Career Academic Pathways in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (LEAPS-MPS)

NIH: Neuromodulation/Neurostimulation Device Development for Mental Health Applications (R21); Virtual Consortium for Translational/Transdisciplinary Environmental Research (ViCTER) (R01): Research on Biopsychosocial Factors of Social Connectedness and Isolation on Health, Wellbeing, Illness, and Recovery (R01); SPARC Human Open Research Neural Engineering Technologies (HORNET) Initiative (U41)

Department of Defense/US Army/DARPA/ONR: Integrated Microgrids; National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) 2022 Broad Agency Announcement; Environmental Literacy Program: Increasing community resilience to extreme weather & climate change; Long Range Broad Agency Announcement for Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology; MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURE SYSTEMS (MCS) BAA; Defense Sciences Office Office-wide; Research Interests of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research

Department of Transportation: DDETFP Transportation Fellowship Program;

Department of Agriculture: Solid Waste Management Grant Program; Centers of Excellence at 1890 Institutions

Department of Labor: Workforce System Technical Assistance Collaborative

Department of Commerce/EDA:  Competition for a Cooperative Institute to Support Water Resources; Environmental Literacy Program; FY2021 to FY2023 NOAA Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)

EPA: National Priorities: Innovative Sampling Designs for Public Health Surveillance of Coronaviruses and Other Pathogens in Wastewater; Development of Innovative Approaches to Assess the Toxicity of Chemical Mixtures; FY22 GUIDELINES FOR BROWNFIELD ASSESSMENT GRANTS; FY22 GUIDELINES FOR BROWNFIELD CLEANUP

Department of Energy: RFI: Technology Advancements for Subsurface Exploration for Renewable Energy Resources or Carbon Storage; RFI: Research, Development, and Demonstration Opportunities for FY 2022 Solar Manufacturing Incubator; Performance Targets for Perovskite Photovoltaic Research, Development, and Demonstration Programs; Environmental System Science (ESS); Atmospheric System Research (ASR); UNIVERSITY-BASED CYBERSECURITY CENTERS

NASA: Strategic Astrophysics Technology; ROSES 2021: Terrestrial Ecology; Heliophysics Living with a Star Infrastructure; ROSES 2021

National Endowment of Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants

Private Foundations: New Jersey Health Foundation: Innovation Grants

Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) Senate Agencies Appropriations

National Science Foundation (NSF)

• Topline: $9.49 billion, an increase of $1 billion above the FY21 enacted level, and $682.5 million below the President’s budget.

• Research and Related Activities: $7.7 billion, an increase of $757.3 million above the

FY21 level, and $472 million below the President’s budget.

• To ensure collaboration with industry, build on existing programs across the government, and get these important research investments to market, the Committee supports NSF’s proposal to create a new Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships funded by up to $864.9 million within the Research and Related Activities account.

• Climate Science and Sustainability Research: The Committee supports the administration’s requests for the U.S. Global Change Research Program and Clean Energy Technology.
• Artificial Intelligence (Al): Up to $734.4 million, equal to the President’s budget, to support AI-related grants and interdisciplinary research initiatives. The Committee encourages NSF to continue its efforts in workforce development for AI and other emerging technologies, including education programs for non-computer science students, with focused outreach to community colleges, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions, Tribal Colleges and Universities, and Minority Serving Institutions. In addition, the Committee encourages NSF to increase the pipeline of students graduating with AI and data literacy through partnerships, cooperative agreements, and other pilot mechanisms. The Committee continues to urge NSF to invest in the ethical and safe development of AI.
• Quantum Information Science and Technology: The Committee provides up to the budget request level of funding, with $210 million dedicated toward activities as authorized under Section 301 of the National Quantum Initiative and $50 million toward the National Quantum Information Science Research Centers as authorized under section 302 of the National Quantum Initiative Act.
• High-Performance Computing: The Committee com- mends NSF on its continuing commitment to its high-performance computing and data analysis capabilities, including the potential for mid-scale research infrastructure, but is concerned these investments fall short of scientific and engineering needs. Leading edge high-performance computing infrastructure is vital for continued U.S. world leadership and international scientific competitiveness, particularly given computational investments and technical achievements in high-performance computing by other nations. NSF should renew and adequately resource its commitment to de-eloping and supporting systems that facilitate tremendous leaps in computational simulation including artificial intelligence, storage, quantum computing, and data analyses that enable a broad range of scientific research. NSF should invest in additional high- end computational systems to fully meet science and engineering needs. The Committee recommends that NSF establish a timely, well-funded budget line in future budget submissions to Congress to support world-class leadership in computing for the national open science community.
• Innovation Corps: The Committee provides an increase of $5,000,000 above the FY22 request level for the Innovation Corps (I–Corps) program to build on the successes of its innovative public-private partnership model.
• Education and Human Resources: $1.1 billion, an increase of $132 million above the FY21 enacted level, and $187.2 million below the President’s budget.
• Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate: $12 million
• Centers for Research Excellence in Science and Technology: $34 million
• Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation: $69.5 million
• Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program: $67 million
• NSF INCLUDES: $46.5 million
• CyberCorps® Scholarships for Service: $70 million, including $7.5 million continue work with community colleges that have been designated as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance 2-Year Education (CAE2Y) bythe National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security, including through pro- viding scholarships to students at CAE2Y institutions whowill not transfer into a 4-year program, such as career-changers who possess 4- year degrees and veterans of the Armed Forces. Additionally, the Committee urges NSF to collaborate with the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Educationat NIST on their efforts to develop cybersecurity skills in the workforce, especially in support of non-traditional or technical degree qualifications.
• Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction: $249 million, $8 million above FY21 and equal to the budget request.
• Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure: $76.3 million

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

• Topline: $24.84 billion, $1.56 billion above the FY21 enacted level and $25.8 million above the President’s budget.
• Science Program: $7.9 billion, an increase of $600.4 million above FY21 to continue efforts to explore the solar system, other planets, and other solar systems, including through space telescopes and planetary satellites and rovers, as well as efforts to gain scientific knowledge about the Earth’s changing climate.
• Earth Science: $2.23 billion, $230 million above FY21
• Planetary Science: $3.2 billion
• Astrophysics: $1.4 billion,
• Heliophysics: $825.7 million
• Biological and Physical Science: $109.1 million
• Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Engagement: $147 million, an increase of $20 million above FY21 and equal to the President’s budget, to inspire young people to pursue future careers in science and engineering.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

• Topline: $117.6 billion in base discretionary funding for HHS, an increase of $20.9 billion over the FY21 level and $1.8 billion less than the budget request.
• National Institutes of Health (NIH): $47.9 billion, an increase of $5 billion above the FY21 level and $3.8 billion less than the President’s budget. This increased funding results in a 12% increase across every Institute and Center to advance science and speed the development of new therapies, diagnostics and preventive measures.
• Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H): $2.4 billion, $4.1 billion less than the President’s request of $6.5 billion. As ARPA–H remains unauthorized and there are differing views on where the new entity should be placed within the Department, the Committee’s recommendation should not be viewed as favoring its placement within NIH. The Committee remains open to making it a free-standing component within NIH or, alternatively, as a separate new agency.

Bill Supports the Expansion and Development of 6G Infrastructure:  Newly proposed legislation seeks to establish an improved infrastructure to usher in more 6G wireless network advancements in U.S. cities, specifically creating a new council to oversee federal investments and development in the nation’s telecommunications.  Introduced by Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., the bill, dubbed the Next Generation Telecommunications Act, has bipartisan support, with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., among the bill’s sponsors. As implied, the bill would formally establish the Next Generation Telecommunications Council to advise Congress on 6G advancements and other wireless technologies, mainly for the use of smart cities.

More information is posted on the NextGov website.

GSA Needs Users to Test SAM.gov Ahead of DUNS Transition: The federal government is getting ready to institute a new data format for identifying organizations doing business with agencies and just released a new help resource for the transition and a call for superusers to test the system that will manage it all. The final transition from the Data Universal Numbering System, or D-U-N-S, to the new Unique Entity ID is set for April 4, 2022. The cutover will be the culmination of nearly four years of preparation by entities across government and the private sector and the end of a system that dominated the federal space for nearly 60 years. Since it was established by Dun & Bradstreet in 1962 and later codified in the Federal Acquisition Regulation in 1998, a Data Universal Numbering System, or D-U-N-S, number has been issued to every organization doing business with the government, functioning as a sort of Social Security number for contractors, grantees, universities, research centers, incubators, charities and others.

GSA, which administers the program, opened the contract to new vendors for the first time in 2018 and awarded the new contract in March 2019 to Ernst & Young, which will administer the new Unique Entity ID and manage the transition from Dun & Bradstreet. The transition was originally planned for December 2020. However, after hearing from the community, GSA opted to extend the deadline to April 2022 in order to begin issuing UEI numbers during the transition, enabling agencies to test systems using both numbers ahead of the final cutover. UEI numbers are now being issued through SAM.gov. 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.

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