Community Resilience Center of Excellence Program

Post Date

July 8th 2014

Application Due Date

September 12th 2014

Funding Opportunity Number

2014-NIST-CR-COE-01

CFDA Number(s)

11.619

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Other

Arrangements for Interdisciplinary Research Infrastructure

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Other

Accredited institutions of higher education, non-profit organizations, and commercial organizations that are organized and operated in the United States and its territories. An eligible organization may work individually or include proposed subawardees, contractors or other collaborators in a project proposal, effectively forming a team or consortium. An organization may only serve as the lead organization on one proposal. In a team or consortium structure, eligible subawardees are U.S. non-profit organizations, accredited institutions of higher education, commercial organizations, and State, Tribal, and local governments. Federal agencies may participate in projects, but may not receive NIST funding.

Funding

• Award Range:

  $None - $None

Grant Description

NIST is soliciting applications to establish a Community Resilience Center of Excellence in which NIST researchers collaborate with interdisciplinary researchers from academia and industry on development of tools and standardized methods that will enhance the disaster resilience of communities and their built environment through innovations in measurement science and in new modeling, simulation, data, and informatics tools coupled with field studies of multiple hazard events.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Commerce

• Office:

  National Institute of Standards and Technology

• Agency Contact:

  Christopher Hunton
  Grants Technical Assistant
  Phone 301-975-5718

• Agency Mailing Address:

  Agency Contact

• Agency Email Address:

  christopher.hunton@nist.gov

• More Information:

  2014-NIST-CR-COE-01 Full Announcement/FFO document