George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Operations FY 2015-FY 2019

Post Date

February 5th 2013

Application Due Date

May 24th 2013

Letter of Intent Due Date(s) (required) (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time): March 22, 2013 Full Proposal Deadline(s): May 24, 2013

Funding Opportunity Number

13-537

CFDA Number(s)

47.041

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Science and Technology and other Research and Development

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Other

*Organization Limit: Proposals may only be submitted by the following: -Universities and Colleges - Universities and two- and four-year colleges (including community colleges) accredited in, and having a campus located in the US, acting on behalf of their faculty members. Such organizations also are referred to as academic institutions. *PI Limit: The PI,who will serve as the Network Director,must be a full-time employee of the lead institutionby the effective start dateof the NSF cooperative agreement award.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $62000000

• Award Range:

  $62000000 - $None

Grant Description

The George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) was established by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as??a multi-user, research infrastructure for earthquake engineering??research, innovation, and education through a facility construction phase during 2000-2004, followed by operations of the infrastructure??to support research and education activities from??October 2004 through September 2014.?? NEES is currently operated under a five-year NSF cooperative agreement award with Purdue University??that expires on??September??30, 2014.????For more information about NEES, please see http://www.nees.org. Through this solicitation, NSF provides the opportunity for the earthquake engineering community to recompete to operate the "second generation" of NEES, hereinafter referred to in this solicitation as "NEES2."?? Proposals are solicited by NSF's Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation to provide, manage, operate, and maintain NEES2 to??support frontier earthquake engineering research, innovation, education, and workforce development??for the five-year period from October 1, 2014 to September 30, 2019 [i.e., fiscal year (FY) 2015-FY 2019]. ??Recompeted through this solicitation for NEES2 are the following components:?? (a) a network-wide NEES2 management office (NMO) with the Principal Investigator (PI)/Network Director located at the lead institution, (b) four to six experimental facilities that provide the most critical and technically advanced capabilities and data needed by the earthquake engineering research community for transformative research, plus a post-earthquake, rapid response research (PERRR) facility, (c) community-driven, production-quality??cyberinfrastructure, and (d) education and community outreach activities.?? This solicitation does not separately compete the components. Instead,??it requests??proposals to??integrate all these components into a cohesive earthquake engineering research infrastructure for FY 2015-FY 2019.?? NSF??intends to??award??one cooperative agreement to a lead institution for NEES2 operations with a start date of October 1, 2014, and a duration of up to five years.??

Contact Information

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  NSF Publication 13-537