Economic Impact of the Nationмs Precision Timing Infrastructure: The Global Positioning System

Post Date

March 7th 2016

Application Due Date

May 6th 2016

Funding Opportunity Number

2016-NIST-TPO-01

CFDA Number(s)

11.620

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Other

Science, Technology, Business, and/or Education Outreach.

Eligibility Categories

Other

Eligibility for this program is open to accredited institutions of higher education and non-profit organizations. While an eligible applicant must be incorporated in the United States, the applicant may have a parent organization outside the United States.

Funding

• Award Range:

  $None - $None

Grant Description

NIST invites applications from eligible applicants to assess the economic impact of the Nationмs Space-based positioning, navigation and timing (PNT). Specifically, the awardee, in collaboration with NIST, will identify key technologies developed by and transferred from federal laboratories that support GPS, estimate the qualitative and quantitative economic impact of these investments, and sponsor certain focused graduate and post-doctoral research. The applicant will conduct a retrospective analysis to estimate national benefits that have been realized by GPS and not project future benefits of GPS. The goals of this study are to: (1) identify and analyze the federal research and technology transfer activities and outputs that significantly impacted research, development, adoption and deployment of space-based GPS and the associated technology infrastructure related to applications with critical need for precision timing; (2) conduct a detailed analysis of the impacts of the use of GPS and precise time measurements across an array of applications, industries and throughout supply chains; (3) conduct a qualitative assessment of these impacts of GPS, precision timing and the associated technology infrastructure; (4) conduct a quantitative empirical assessment of the national economic impact of GPS, precision timing and the associated technology infrastructure; (5) draw upon its qualitative and quantitative analyses of federal R&D and technology transfer activities to identify lessons relevant to future GPS and timing investments; and (6) sponsor graduate and post-doctoral research thereby contributing to the development of the next generation of researchers focused on science, R&D and technology transfer impact analysis.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Commerce

• Office:

  National Institute of Standards and Technology

• Agency Contact:

  Christopher Hunton
  Management Program Analyst
  Phone 301-975-5718

• Agency Mailing Address:

  Agency Contact

• Agency Email Address:

  grants@nist.gov

• More Information:

  2016-NIST-TPO-01 Full Announcement/FFO document