Research NewsletterIssue: ORN-2023-07

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National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Chapter at NJIT Forum on

Sustainable Societies: Future Trends in Technology Innovation Partnerships

and

NJIT 2023 Research Institutes, Centers and Laboratory Showcase

March 30, 2023; 9.00 AM – 3.00 PM

Ballroom A/B and Gallery, Campus Center, NJIT

Abstract:

Recent changes in the world have been largely driven by technology innovations and partnerships creating new pathways for economic growth addressing grand challenges and impacting the way we live. It is evident that the vast knowledge-base and unprecedented investments in basic and applied research needs to be synergistically augmented by advancements in translational research, market validation and acceptance as well as smart manufacturing, and distribution management strategies where needed. Such synergies to bring global solutions to societal challenges essentially require technology innovation partnerships among research, industry, business, infrastructure, as well as government and non-government stakeholder communities.

The U.S. as the technology innovation leader in the world continues to focus on creating resources and synergies for developing sustainable societies towards healthier and prosperous communities with better quality of life.

The NJIT Research Showcase will feature:

1. Distinguished Keynote Talk by Graciela Narcho, Deputy Assistant Director of the NSF Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships,
2. Distinguished Panel Discussion on Future Trends in Technology Innovation Partnerships, and
3. e-Poster sessions of research institutes, centers and specialized laboratories from leading universities in the region. The showcase will provide an open forum to discuss pathways for developing synergistic technology innovation partnerships among stakeholders to address global grand challenges in the areas of sustainable environment and climate change, preventive, personalized and precision healthcare, and data revolution with trustworthy information systems and secured cyberspace. 

Program Agenda

8.30 AM – 9.00 AM:       Registration, Breakfast and Electronic PPT Poster Set-up

9.00 AM – 10.00 AM:     NJIT-Rutgers-Princeton-Rowan Research Institutes, Centers and Laboratories Showcase: Electronic Poster Preview Session

10.00 AM – 11.00 AM:  Keynote Presentation: Technology and Innovation Partnerships Strategic Funding Initiatives at National Science Foundation

                                         Distinguished Speaker: Graciela (Gracie) Narcho, Deputy Assistant Director of the Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships

11.00 AM – 12.00 PM:   NJIT-Rutgers-Princeton-Rowan Research Institutes, Centers and Laboratories Showcase: Networking and Electronic Poster Session-1

12.00 PM – 12.30 PM:    Lunch and Networking

12.30 PM – 2.00 PM:      Distinguished Panel Discussion: Future Trends in Technology Innovation Partnerships

2.00 PM – 3.00 PM:   NJIT-Rutgers-Princeton-Rowan Research Institutes, Centers and Laboratories Showcase: Networking and Electronic Poster Session-2

NSF: Accelerating Research Translation (ART); Global Centers (GC); Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE); Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) Postdoctoral Research Program (PRP) (CREST-PRP); Molecular Foundations for Biotechnology (MFB); IUSE / Professional Formation of Engineers: Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (IUSE/PFE: RED)

NIH: IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) (P20); Using Multimodal Biomarkers to Differentially Diagnose ADRDs for Clinical Trials (U19); Collaborative Program Grant for Multidisciplinary Teams (RM1); NIMHD Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Program (R21)

Department of Defense/US Army/DARPA/ONR: NDEP STEM Open NFO; DoD Peer Reviewed Medical, Investigator-Initiated Research Award; Research Interests of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research; DEVCOM Analysis Center Broad Agency Announcement for Applied Research

Energy Launches Foundation to Accelerate Emerging Tech Commercialization: The Energy Department is looking for public, stakeholder and industry input regarding a new agency-related foundation created under President Biden’s CHIPS and Science Act of 2022. In a request for information published Thursday, Energy seeks ideas for how the agency, as well as stakeholders, should engage with the Foundation for Energy Security and Innovation, or FESI. The foundation was created to help Energy foster public-private partnerships and invest in companies that are commercializing critical and emerging energy technologies.   “FESI will help ensure that the breakthroughs in science and innovation at DOE are used to their fullest capacity in maintaining America’s edge as a global energy powerhouse throughout the 21st Century and beyond,” Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm said in a statement. “This first-of-its-kind foundation will serve as a critical new partner to the department in our efforts to strengthen American ingenuity and deliver the technologies of the future so critical to an equitable clean energy economy.” In particular, Energy seeks input from philanthropic organizations, community stakeholders, Energy’s national laboratory foundations and the energy industry. The foundation was created through the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act, and lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle say they plan to continue working to ensure the foundation’s success. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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Agencies Seek Public Input on Updates to Guiding Plan for Cyber R&D: Members of the public have the opportunity to provide their insight on the newest version of the federal government’s guiding document for cybersecurity research and development. The National Science Foundation and the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development’s National Coordination Office filed a request for information, scheduled to be published in the Federal Register Feb. 7, on the 2023 Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan as they work to update the document.  As required by the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014, the federal cybersecurity research and development plan must be updated every four years. The agencies note that the plan will “be used to guide and coordinate federally funded research in cybersecurity, including cybersecurity education and workforce development, and the development of consensus-based standards and best practices in cybersecurity.” The most recent plan was last updated in 2019 in an effort to “coordinate and guide federally funded R&D in cybersecurity, including development of consensus-based standards and best practices.” The 2019 plan details four interrelated defense capabilities—deter, protect, detect and respond—and six cybersecurity R&D priority areas—artificial intelligence, quantum information science, trustworthy distributed digital infrastructure, privacy, secure hardware and software as well as education and workforce development—as federal focus areas. For the newest iteration, NSF and NITD NCO asked those responding to consider a 10-year time frame for challenges, potential research activities and outcomes. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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NSF Will Invest Up to $28M for STEM Open-Source Ecosystems: The National Science Foundation is looking to foster the development of open-source ecosystems in STEM fields under a new solicitation, according to a Thursday announcement.  The Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems—or POSE—program is designed to utilize “open-source development as a platform of innovation to address challenges of societal and economic importance.” It will take open-source products or research artifacts and translate these to open-source ecosystems. According to the solicitation, “some open-source projects go well beyond their original research teams, catalyzing broad adoption across academia, industry, government and other sectors, and resulting in communities of users and intellectual content developers who coalesce around them into ‘ecosystems.’”

The program will not fund open-source tools or products or existing open-source ecosystems. Rather, the POSE program will focus on supporting new open-source ecosystems. 

According to the announcement, the goal of the POSE program is to expand the group of researchers and innovators developing and contributing to open-source ecosystems and to create safe and secure development and contribution pathways for open-source ecosystems that have large impact.

As noted in the announcement, the POSE program is looking for two types of proposals:

• Phase I proposal for one year and up to $300,000 per project. These proposals should outline specific activities to scope and plan the establishment of an open-source ecosystem.
• Phase II for two years and up to $1.5 million per project. These proposals will be to create a sustainable open-source ecosystem based on a robust open-source product that can meet “an emergent societal or economic need and build a community to help develop it.”

More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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