Naval Supply Systems Command · Department of Defense
Research Initiatives at the Naval Postgraduate School
Key facts
- Deadline
- Due Jan 13, 2030 · 1193 days left
- Award size
- Not stated: see the official notice
- Total available
- $20M · about 30 awards
- Match ?
- Not required · Work out your budget and match
- Who can apply
- Public college or university, Nonprofit with 501(c)(3), Private college or university
- Where
- Anywhere in the U.S., including Tennessee
How this fits you
- Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- No match required
- Past Tennessee awards on file: 51
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Official notice: https://simpler.grants.gov/opportunity/fbe9738b-8440-4690-a838-9d0f99d9e777 · Printed from grantme.click/grants/c8f2632a-0483-4a91-b03d-93addc31458e
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About this grant
This FOA is intended for proposals related to basic and applied research in the STEM categories, and not related to the development of a specific system or hardware procurement.
The proposal submission process has two stages:
I. Applicants are encouraged to submit a white paper first to Grants@NPS.edu, ; and
II. Applicants must submit a full proposal through Grants.gov (do not submit white papers through Grants.gov, only full proposals)
Applicants are encouraged to submit a White Paper in advance of a Full Proposal to minimize the labor and other costs associated with the production of detailed full proposals that have little chance of being selected for funding. Based on an assessment of the white papers, the responsible Research Program Officer will provide informal feedback notification to the prospective awardees to encourage or discourage submission proposals. The Research Program Officer may also, on occasion, provide feedback encouraging re-work to strengthen a proposal.
White Papers may be submitted at any time during the open period of this FOA. A separate White Paper is required for each research proposal.
Your schedule, working back from the deadline
- Oct8
Check that your SAM.gov registration is active (or start it now)
Grants.gov: allow up to 10 business days for SAM registration, weeks or months if information isn't verified. It must be renewed every year. Grants.gov - Dec23
Ask partners for letters of support or commitment
Suggested: partners need about three weeks to write and sign letters. - Jan7
Finish a complete draft for a final review
Suggested: leave about a week for someone else to read the draft. - Jan11
Submit
Grants.gov: submit at least 24–48 hours before the deadline: uploads fail, systems slow down, errors need fixing. Grants.gov blog - Jan13
Deadline
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What the official notice requires
Pulled from the official notice N00244-26-S-NPS-F001.pdf (42 pages) so you can see the requirements at a glance. Each item shows the notice's own words. Open the page to read it in context.
Award size and project length
Award amounts here are per year · p. 39
“Recipients that have Federal contracts, grants, and cooperative agreement awards with a cumulative total value greater than $10,000,000 must disclose semiannually any information about the criminal, civil, and administrative proceedings. 5.” Open page 39
Registrations you need first (2)
Grants.gov · p. 8
“Address to Request (Access) Application Package - This FOA may be accessed at Grants.gov (www.grants.gov).” Open page 8
SAM.gov, Unique Entity ID (UEI) · p. 24
“Unique Entity Identifier and System for Award Management (SAM) - All applicants submitting proposals or applications must: a.” Open page 24
Registration is free but can take weeks, so start now, not when the deadline is close. Get-ready checklist
What to submit
Form SF-424 · p. 11
“Mandatory SF-424 Research and Related (R&R) Family Forms The mandatory forms are found at https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/forms.html (1) SF-424 (R&R) The SF-424 (R&R) form must be used as the cover page for all proposals.” Open page 11
Project abstract or summary · p. 12
“The project summary/abstract must identify the research problem and objectives, technical approaches, anticipated outcome of the research, if successful, and impact on DoD capabilities.” Open page 12
Timeline or schedule of completion · p. 13
“Thus, full proposals must include a severable, stand-alone work plan without any proprietary restrictions or controlled unclassified information.” Open page 13
Resumes or bios of key staff · p. 16
“Include curriculum vitae of the Principal Investigator and key co- investigators.” Open page 16
Budget narrative / justification · p. 18
“The Budget Justification, which is a narrative explaining and justifying the budget figures in detail, must include all figures, calculations, and supporting documentation for” Open page 18
Form SF-LLL · p. 42
“Disclosure of Lobbying Activities (SF-LLL) [V2.0] R & R Subaward Budget Attachment(s) Form [V3.0] NOTE:” Open page 42
Length limits
Page limit (see quote): 40 pages max · p. 11
“The following components are excluded from the 40-page limit:” Open page 11
Formatting rules
double-spaced · p. 9
“Spacing – single or double-spaced” Open page 9
12-point font · p. 9
“Font – Times New Roman, 12 point” Open page 9
single-spaced · p. 11
“Spacing – single spaced” Open page 11
Mistakes that get applications rejected (5)
Over the length limit: White papers exceeding the page limit will not be evaluated · p. 9
“White papers exceeding the page limit will not be evaluated” Open page 9
Could get your application rejected: The demographic information may be accessible to the reviewer, but will not be considered in the evaluation. · p. 24
“The demographic information may be accessible to the reviewer, but will not be considered in the evaluation.” Open page 24
Could get your application rejected: Requests for more than one hundred-eighty (180) days pre-award costs will not be considered. · p. 25
“Requests for more than one hundred-eighty (180) days pre-award costs will not be considered.” Open page 25
Sent the wrong way or format: Proposals with attachments submitted in word processing, spreadsheet, or any format other than Adobe... · p. 26
“Proposals with attachments submitted in word processing, spreadsheet, or any format other than Adobe Portable Document Format will not be considered for award.” Open page 26
Could get your application rejected: Evaluation Proposals will not be evaluated against each other since they are not submitted in accordance... · p. 29
“Evaluation Proposals will not be evaluated against each other since they are not submitted in accordance with a common work statement.” Open page 29
Who in Tennessee has won this program
28 awards to Tennessee groups in 4 counties since 2018. Largest shown:
| Past winner | Where | Amount | Fiscal year |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Tennessee | Knoxville, Knox County | $7.4M | 2018 |
| University of Tennessee | Knoxville, Knox County | $5.2M | 2025 |
| Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Davidson County | $5M | 2023 |
| Collaborative Composite Solutions Corporation | Knoxville, Knox County | $5M | 2020 |
| State of Tennessee | Nashville | $4.9M spent that year | 2025 |
| Vanderbilt University | Nashville | $2.6M spent that year | 2025 |
| University of Memphis | Memphis, Shelby County | $2.2M | 2023 |
| University of Tennessee | Knoxville, Knox County | $1.6M | 2020 |
| Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Davidson County | $1.2M | 2021 |
| Tennessee State University | Nashville, Davidson County | $1.2M | 2024 |
| University of Tennessee | Knoxville, Knox County | $1.1M | 2021 |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Nashville, Davidson County | $849K | 2022 |
Source: USAspending.gov, Federal Audit Clearinghouse. Past awards show who this program funds. They don't guarantee future awards.
Tennessee groups that got this money through a state agency or another organization
This federal money also reaches local groups as pass-through grants. 23 pass-through grants on file. Largest shown:
| Past winner | Where | Through | Amount | Fiscal year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Collaborative Composite Solutions Corporation | Knoxville, Knox County | Office of Naval Research | $2M spent that year | 2024 |
| State of Tennessee | Nashville | Collaborative Composite Solutions Corporation | $732K spent that year | 2024 |
| University of Tennessee | Chattanooga, Hamilton County | Georgia Tech Research Corporation | $630K | 2024 |
| Vanderbilt University | Nashville | Precise Systems, Inc | $509K spent that year | 2023 |
| State of Tennessee | Nashville | Oregon State University | $397K spent that year | 2023 |
| Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Davidson County | The Pennsylvania State University | $291K | 2026 |
| University of Memphis | Memphis, Shelby County | Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University | $263K | 2026 |
| Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Davidson County | Regents of the University of Minnesota | $199K | 2026 |
| State of Tennessee | Nashville | Georgia Institute of Technology | $197K spent that year | 2025 |
| State of Tennessee | Nashville | Strategic Ohio Council for Higher Education | $195K spent that year | 2024 |
| Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Davidson County | The Pennsylvania State University | $194K | 2025 |
| University of Tennessee | Knoxville, Knox County | University of Kentucky Research Foundation, the | $126K | 2026 |
Source: USAspending.gov pass-through reports (the first recipient reports each one of $30,000 or more).
About the federal program
Basic and Applied Scientific Research
Program number 12.300 (the federal Assistance Listing number) · U.S. Department of Defense, ONR · Cooperative agreement (a grant with close agency involvement), project grant
How applications are judged
Award decisions will be based on a competitive selection of proposals resulting from a scientific and cost review. Evaluations will typically be conducted using the following evaluation criteria: 1. Overall scientific and technical merits of the proposal; 2. Potential Naval relevance and contributions of the effort to the agency's specific mission; 3. The offeror's capabilities, related experience, facilities, techniques or unique combinations of these which are integral factors for achieving the proposal objectives; 4. The qualifications, capabilities and experience of the proposed Principal Investigator (PI), team leader and key personnel who are critical in achieving the proposal objectives; and 5. The realism of the proposed costs and availability of funds.
Match
None required (federal program listing).
Examples of funded projects
Fiscal year 2018: Properties and Performance of Compositionally Complex AlCrFeMn Alloys for Marine Applications
Fiscal year 2019: Generalized Computations for Learning, Memory, and Decision Making in Artificial and Biological Neural
Networks
Fiscal year 2021: 100 drifting wave buoys were deployed in the Southern Ocean. Storms in the Southern Ocean generate energetic waves that radiate across the Pacific, Atlantic , and Indian ocean. Progress in ocean Internet of Things (IoT) technology enables the grantee to collect unprecedented data densities, which directly improves ocean and wave theories, validate and constrain ocean and atmospheric models, and provide a ground truth for satellite remote sensing data. The technology deployed by the grantee was developed with ONR sponsorship. It represents a shift in global ocean sensing toward a distributed paradigm with massive arrays of low-cost internet-connected nodes.
Fiscal year 2025: Data Fusion and Assimilation for Multiscale 3D Velocity and Wall Stress Reconstructions in a Tip Gap Flow.
The overarching goal of the proposed work is to advance knowledge of flow physics and cavitation inception in tip
gap flow fields through the...