The Department of Defense has issued its Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the Department of Defense EPSCoR competition for Fiscal Year 2007, and for the first time in several years, Louisiana is eligible to compete. The BAA is available at the Army Research Office Website:
http://www.arl.army.mil/main/main/default.cfm?Action=6&Page=8
Under the terms of the BAA, only state EPSCoR Committees can submit proposal packages (consisting of a maximum of five separate research grant proposals) in response to this announcement. DEPSCoR research projects mayaddress any of the technical areas listed in the respective Army, Navy, and Air Force BAAs.
In the very near future, the Louisiana Board of Regents will issue an RFP requesting interested faculty members to submit proposals, which will then undergo a peer review process to determine which proposals will be included in the statewide proposal package.
The BoR RFP will require a mandatory Notice of Intent from proposers, due sometime in early September. Full proposals will be due at the end of September.
Eligible NSF EPSCoR State Committees may submit a proposal package containing up to five (5) separately fundable proposals requesting support from DoD for a 36-month period. Within the state proposal package, all proposals must request a minimum of $350,000. To maximize the DEPSCoR program objectives, all DEPSCoR awards require a minimum, non-federal cost sharing or matching of one-to-two (i.e., at least one dollar from State, institutional, and/or private sector sources to match each two dollars of DEPSCoR support being provided). Matching funds may support items such as salaries, indirect costs, operating expenses, or new equipment.
Publish Date:
08-21-2006
