[ESIP-all] New NSF opportunities for cyberinfrastructure and open science

Wed Mar 2 12:35:17 EST 2022

Dear Colleagues,

I wanted to draw your attention to several recently-announced NSF funding opportunities that support efforts in the space of cyberinfrastructure and open science:

  1.  Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) - Program Solicitation NSF 22-572
  2.  Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable Open Science Research Coordination Networks (FAIROS RCNs) - Program Solicitation NSF 22-553
  3.  Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (CyberTraining) - Program Solicitation NSF 22-574
  4.  Dear Colleague Letter: Nurturing Diverse, Skilled, Capable, and Productive Communities of CyberInfrastructure Professionals (CIP) - NSF 22-052
  5.  Dear Colleague Letter: Pilot for the Allocation of High-Throughput Computing Resources (HTC) - NSF 22-051

See below for further explanation on each of these opportunities, along with links to full descriptions of the associated solicitations and Dear Colleague Letters.

Best regards,
Raleigh Martin

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A. Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) - Program Solicitation NSF 22-572<https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/pathways-enable-open-source-ecosystems-pose>
NSF is introducing a new program called "Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems" (POSE). The purpose of the program is to harness the power of open-source development for the creation of new technology solutions to problems of national and societal importance. Many NSF-funded research projects result in publicly accessible, modifiable, and distributable open-sourced software, hardware or data platforms that catalyze further innovation. In some cases, an open-source product is widely adopted and forms the basis for a self-sustaining open-source ecosystem (OSE) comprises a distributed community of developers and a broad base of users across academia, industry and government. The goal of the POSE program is to fund new OSE managing organizations, each responsible for the creation and maintenance of infrastructure needed for efficient and secure operation of an OSE based around a specific open-source product or class of products. The early and intentional formation of such managing organizations is expected to ensure more secure open-source products, increased coordination of developer contributions, and a more focused route to impactful technologies.

This solicitation seeks two types of proposals, allowing teams to (1) propose specific activities to scope the development of an OSE (Phase I), and (2) develop a sustainable OSE based on a mature open-source product that shows promise both in the ability to meet an emergent societal or national need and to build a community to help develop it (Phase II).

Phase I deadline date: May 12, 2022
Phase II deadline date: October 21, 2022

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B. Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable Open Science Research Coordination Networks (FAIROS RCN) - NSF 22-553<https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/findable-accessible-interoperable-reusable-open-science-research-coordination>
The FAIROS RCN program seeks to create three-year Research Coordination Networks (RCNs) which will foster catalytic improvements in scientific communities focusing on the FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse, see Program Description for more information) guiding principles and Open Science best practices (inclusively summarized by the combined phrase FAIROS for purposes of this program). This program will support a broad range of activities by these new RCNs to advance the means by which investigators can share information and ideas, coordinate ongoing or planned research activities, foster synthesis and new collaborations, develop community standards, and in other ways advance science and education through communication and sharing of research products through FAIROS strategies.

FAIROS RCN proposals must select one of two tracks to focus on, either: 1) Disciplinary Improvements to targeted scientific communities, or 2) Cross-Cutting Improvements that apply to many or most scientific disciplines.

Full proposal deadline date: April 12, 2022

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C. Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (CyberTraining) - Program Solicitation NSF 22-574<https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/training-based-workforce-development-advanced-cyberinfrastructure>
This program seeks to prepare, nurture, and grow the national scientific research workforce for creating, utilizing, and supporting advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) to enable and potentially transform fundamental science and engineering (S&E) research and education and contribute to the Nation's overall economic competitiveness and security. The goals of this solicitation are to (i) ensure broad adoption of CI tools, methods, and resources by the research community in order to catalyze major research advances and to enhance researchers' abilities to lead the development of new CI; (ii) integrate core literacy and discipline-appropriate advanced skills in advanced CI as well as computational and data-driven methods for advancing fundamental research, into the Nation's undergraduate and graduate educational curriculum/instructional materials; and (iii) build communities of research CI professional staff to deploy, manage, and collaboratively support the effective use of research CI, as well as establish career paths for those staff within and across institutions and science and engineering (S&E) disciplines. Proposals responding to the Pilot and Implementation project classes defined in this solicitation may target one or both of the first two solicitation goals, while proposals responding to the CIP project class must address the third goal. For the purpose of this solicitation, advanced CI is broadly defined as the set of resources, tools, methods, and services for advanced computation, large-scale data handling and analytics, and networking and security for large-scale systems that collectively enable potentially transformative fundamental S&E research and education.

There are three project classes as defined below:

  *   Pilot Projects: up to $300,000 total budget with durations up to two years;
  *   Implementation Projects: Small (with total budgets of up to $500,000) or Medium (with total budgets of up to $1,000,000) for durations of up to four years; and
  *   CI Professional (CIP) Projects: up to two full-time equivalents (FTEs) per institution and four FTEs total with durations up to five years.

Full proposal deadline date: May 16, 2022

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D. Dear Colleague Letter: Nurturing Diverse, Skilled, Capable, and Productive Communities of CyberInfrastructure Professionals (CIP) - NSF 22-052<https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2022/nsf22052/nsf22052.jsp>
Through this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), NSF announces two new steps undertaken to implement the NSF vision for developing and sustaining a diverse and dynamic CI workforce:

1. CI Professional Mentoring and Professional Development Plan. All proposals submitted to the NSF Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation<https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/cyberinfrastructure-sustained-scientific-innovation-cssi> (CSSI) and Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure<https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/training-based-workforce-development-advanced-cyberinfrastructure> (CyberTraining) programs that request funding to support CI professionals are required to have a CI Professional Mentoring and/or Professional Development Plan.

2. Research Coordination Networks of CI Professionals (RCN:CIP). NSF envisions networks of connected and coordinated hubs that recognize and connect CI Professionals, support communications and training, share best practices, and foster mobility and synergies across projects and organizations. To establish community for all stakeholders of the CI workforce, NSF encourages proposals for Research Coordination Networks (RCN) to advance CI Professionals' careers through transformative and/or new approaches for fostering, nurturing, expanding, and sustaining such communities. Interested investigators are encouraged to submit proposals in response to the "Research Coordination Networks: Fostering and Nurturing a Diverse Community of CI Professionals (RCN:CIP)" program solicitation, NSF 22-558<https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf22558>. The proposal submission deadline is April 15, 2022.

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E. Dear Colleague Letter: Pilot for the Allocation of High-Throughput Computing Resources (HTC) - NSF 22-051<https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2022/nsf22051/nsf22051.jsp>
Through this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), NSF 22-051<https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2022/nsf22051/nsf22051.jsp>, NSF announces a Pilot for the Allocation of High-Throughput Computing (HTC) resources made available through the Partnership to Advance Throughput Computing (PATh<https://path-cc.io/>) project supported by NSF. HTC supports the automated execution of workloads that consist of large ensembles of self-contained inter-dependent tasks that may require large amounts of computing power over long periods of time to complete. Available resources include large-scale compute and GPU servers and nearline storage, as described in more detail on the PATh credit accounts<https://path-cc.io/services/credit-accounts/> web page.

Within the Geosciences Directorate (GEO), the following programs and responsible Program Officers will participate in this Pilot in FY 2022 and FY 2023 (see the DCL for a full list of participating programs):

  *   Geoinformatics (GI),<https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/geoinformatics-gi> GEO/EAR, PO: Raleigh Martin, ramartin at nsf.gov<mailto:ramartin at nsf.gov>
  *   Geophysics (PH)<https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/geophysics-ph-0>, GEO/EAR, PO: Eva Zanzerkia, ezanzerk at nsf.gov<mailto:ezanzerk at nsf.gov>
  *   Arctic Research Opportunities<https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/arctic-research-opportunities>, GEO/OPP, POs: Marc Stieglitz, mstiegli at nsf.gov<mailto:mstiegli at nsf.gov>, Allen Pope, apope at nsf.gov<mailto:apope at nsf.gov>
  *   Antarctic Research<https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/antarctic-research>, GEO/OPP, PO: Allen Pope, apope at nsf.gov<mailto:apope at nsf.gov>

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Raleigh L. Martin, Ph.D. (he/him/his)
Program Director
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
Division of Earth Sciences (EAR)
email: ramartin at nsf.gov<mailto:ramartin at nsf.gov>
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