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Document Type:
Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number:
09-564
Opportunity Category:
Discretionary
Posted Date:
May 22, 2009
Creation Date:
May 22, 2009
Original Closing Date for Applications:
Aug 21, 2009
Full Proposal Deadline(s):
August 21, 2009
Current Closing Date for Applications:
Aug 21, 2009
Full Proposal Deadline(s):
August 21, 2009
Archive Date:
Funding Instrument Type:
Cooperative Agreement
Category of Funding Activity:
Science and Technology and other Research and Development
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards:
15
Estimated Total Program Funding:
$32,500,000
Award Ceiling:
Award Floor:
CFDA Number(s):
47.079
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International Science and Engineering (OISE)
47.080
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Office of Cyberinfrastructure
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:
No
Eligible Applicants
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility:
*PI Limit:
Single lead PI for each proposal.
Agency Name
National Science Foundation
Description
The United States research and education community communicates, cooperates, and collaborates with colleagues in the global community. Members of this community access remote instruments, data, and computational resources located throughout the world, often as part of international collaborations. Similarly, major NSF investments in large-scale science and engineering facilities located both inside and outside the United States are utilized by multi-national research and education collaborations. To support such activities, NSF solicits proposals for International Research Network Connections (IRNC).NSF expects to make a set of awards to: provide network connections linking U.S. research networks with peer networks in other parts of the world; leverage existing international network connectivity; improve the quality of end-to-end networking on international paths; explore experimental networking; stimulate the deployment and operational understanding of emerging technologies such as IPv6 in an international context. Links funded by this program are intended to support science and engineering research and education applications, and preference will be given to solutions which provide the best economy of scale and demonstrate the ability to support the largest communities of interest with the broadest services. Funded projects will assist the U.S. research and education community by enabling state-of-the-art international network services and access to increased collaboration and data services. Through extended international network connections, additional research and production network services will be enabled, complementing those currently offered or planned by domestic research networks.This program supports international research network connections across three areas: Production network environments (IRNC:ProNet); Experimental networking activities in support of cyber-science applications (IRNC:Exp); and special projects including advanced network development, deployment, security, monitoring, and other approaches (IRNC:SP).
