Research NewsletterIssue: ORN-2024-03

NJIT Faculty and Researchers Access to Research Funding Opportunities Database: Pivot-RP

NJIT researchers have institutional access to Pivot-RP, an online tool that allows users to search and discover available grants and other funding opportunities. Pivot-RP will allow you to:

• Access the broadest global coverage of available funding opportunities in a single, editorially curated database
• Discover tens of thousands of funding opportunities worth billions of dollars from across the widest variety of funding types
• Track and share funding opportunities with colleagues, get alerts and updates on deadlines and other significant changes
• Receive automatic funding recommendations based on your specific profile
• Locate potential collaborators from within and outside NJIT across millions of scholarly profiles
• Communicate effectively and efficiently with other NJIT users with built-in groups
• Search thousands of conferences requesting “call for papers” to present and publish with the built-in Conferences and Papers Invited database.

To create your own Pivot-RP account:  
1. Go to pivot.proquest.com
2. NJIT has already set up Pivot-RP to use single sign-on (SSO).  Please click on the "Use Login from my institution " button for the drop-down list of institutions. Choose “New Jersey Institute of Technology” and login using your UCID. You can then create your account.
3. Pivot-RP will send you a verification email, with a link to confirm your account registration.

More information about Pivot-RP, introductory videos and a user manual are available on the NJIT Research website at https://research.njit.edu/pivot-rp-research-funding

NSF: Algorithms for Threat Detection (ATD); Future Manufacturing (FM); Responsible Design, Development, and Deployment of Technologies (ReDDDoT); Expanding Capacity in Quantum Information Science and Engineering (ExpandQISE); Planning Grants to Broaden Participation in the Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation Program; Enabling Access to the Semiconductor Chip Ecosystem for Design, Fabrication, and Training (Chip Design Hub); National Science Foundation - Future of Semiconductors (FuSe2)

NIH: Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant (R01); Centers of Excellence for Translational Research (CETR) (U19)

Department of Defense/US Army/DARPA/ONR: Defense Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education Consortium (DSEC) Cooperative Agreement; ERDC Broad Agency Announcement

Department of Energy: Research in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering; MINORITY SERVING INSTITUTIONS PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM (MSIPP) CONSORTIA GRANT PROGRAM (CGP)

National Endowment of Humanities: Collaborative Research; Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence

House lawmakers introduce AI risk management bill: As expected, Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., offered a companion bill Wednesday to Senate legislation introduced last year that would codify federal guidelines for the adoption of artificial intelligence. The Federal Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Act would require federal agencies to use the AI risk management framework, developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, when acquiring AI solutions.  Reps. Zach Nunn, R-Iowa, Don Beyer, D-Va., and Marcus Molinaro, R-N.Y., joined Lieu in sponsoring the legislation. The measure is the House version of a Senate bill proposed by Sens. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., and Mark Warner, D-Va., that was introduced in November. Sponsors had hoped the legislation would ride on the must-pass FY24 National Defense Authorization Act, but it was not adopted as an amendment. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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Lawmakers request extra $10M for NIST AI research: Four senators are calling for their fellow lawmakers to approve additional funding to help establish the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute, as part of fiscal 2024 funding legislation. The letter, sent Friday and signed by Sens. Todd Young, R-Ind; Martin Heinrich, D-N.M.; Mike Rounds, R-S.D.; and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., asks leadership on the Senate Appropriations Committee to allocate $10 million to set up the USAISI, which was born from international discussions in November 2023 at the AI Safety Summit in the U.K. The four senators argue that in order for the U.S. to maintain a competitive leadership role in setting universal safety standards for artificial intelligence — a key process that will shape competition in both ethical AI innovation and market dominance — more money is needed to support NIST’s research. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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Agencies eye synthetic data to help train and test AI:  Government agencies are on the hunt for vendors and best practices that can help them make use of artificially generated data — also known as synthetic data generation – that can be used to build or test artificial intelligence applications and machine learning models. The Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate released a solicitation Dec. 15 for synthetic data solutions that can “generate synthetic data that models and replicates the shape and patterns of real data, while safeguarding privacy.” The technique has the potential to help the department train machine learning models in instances where there is no real-world data available or when using that data would be a privacy, civil rights and liberties or security risk. A National Strategy on Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing and Analytics, issued by two subcommittees of the National Science and Technology Council in 2023, notes that the vast amounts of data existing today have great potential, but are often restricted by the challenges around sharing and using sensitive information. More information is posted on the NextGov website.