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NSF 24-108

July 19, 2024

Dear Colleagues:

With this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) the Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) announces plans for modifying one of the competitive areas in the Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB) Program solicitation. This would be a replacement for Competitive Area 2: Integrative Research Investigating the Rules of Life Governing Interactions Between Genomes, Environment and Phenotypes that will have a final deadline on November 7, 2024. The new competitive area will support Fellows that leverage large data, such as those from the National Ecological Observation Network (NEON), and innovative approaches, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and modeling to advance biological research and solutions for a Resilient Planet. The first deadline for proposals to be submitted to this new competitive area will be sometime in the Fall

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NSF 24-111

July 19, 2024

Dear Colleagues:

The U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorates for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP) are seeking new approaches to develop and evaluate novel artificial intelligence (AI) methods in real-world settings. Too often new AI systems are deployed before the interactions with and impacts on users can be fully evaluated or understood. Often, when AI is evaluated, it is with an inadequate number of samples that do not scale or generalize beyond a limited number of use cases.

This Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) seeks to address these limitations by encouraging the community to pursue Planning Grants designed to develop AI-Ready Test Beds that can be used by researchers to test novel AI methods in potential real-world application scenarios. Because of

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NSF 24-110

July 19, 2024

Dear Colleagues:

The U.S. National Science Foundation’s Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) program aims to harness the power of open-source development for the creation of open-source ecosystems (OSEs) to advance key technologies and address problems of national, societal, and geostrategic importance. Each POSE award invests in the establishment of a sustainable OSE based on a robust open-source product.

The POSE solicitations (NSF 22-572 and NSF 23-556) state that, “A maximum of three members of each awarded team are expected to attend a mandatory OSE training to be held virtually…” NSF is providing this mandatory training by drawing on the methods and customer discovery curriculum of the NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps™) program, hereafter described as I-Corps for POSE training. Taught by National I-Corps instructors, the I-Corps for POSE

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NSF 24-100

July 19, 2024

Dear Colleagues:

With this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) wishes to notify the community of its intention to support supplemental funding requests for active research awards to conduct experimental research on the NSF-funded Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR). The supplemental funding request budget may be up to $60,000, with higher amounts requiring additional justification. The requested amount must be less than one-fifth of the original award. Funded supplements will provide support for periods of up to two years but should not exceed the existing award period.

NSF’s PAWR program (https://advancedwireless.org/) is currently supporting four advanced wireless research platforms to enable experimental exploration of robust new wireless devices, communication techniques, networks, systems, and services which

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