Opportunity
CISE Community Research Infrastructure (CCRI)
Award Info:
NSF expects to make the following types of award(s): Standard or Continuing Grants. Up to 10 New awards, up to 5 ENS awards, and 3-5 Planning awards are anticipated in each competition. The majority of the New awards will be made in the $750,000 - $1,500,000 Medium range. A small number of Grand awards may be made in the $1,500,000 - $5,000,000 range. The majority of the Planning awards will be made in the $50,000 - $100,000 range. The majority of the ENS awards will be made in the $750,000 - $2,000,000 range. Estimated program budget, number of awards and average award size/duration are subject to the availability of funds.
Description:
The Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Community Research Infrastructure (CCRI) program drives discovery and learning in the core CISE disciplines of the three participating divisions [(Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF), Computer and Network Systems (CNS), and Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS)] by funding the creation and enhancement of world-class research infrastructure. This research infrastructure will specifically support diverse communities of CISE researchers pursuing focused research agendas in computer and information science and engineering. This support involves developing the accompanying user services and engagement needed to attract, nurture, and grow a robust research community that is actively involved in determining directions for the infrastructure as well as management of the infrastructure. This should lead to infrastructure that can be sustained through community involvement and community leadership, and that will enable advances not possible with existing research infrastructure. Further, through the CCRI program, CISE seeks to ensure that researchers from a diverse range of academic institutions, including minority-serving and predominantly undergraduate institutions, as well as researchers from non-profit, non-academic organizations, have access to such infrastructure.
The CCRI program supports two classes of awards:
New awards support the creation of new CISE community research infrastructure with integrated tools, resources, user services, and community outreach to enable innovative CISE research opportunities to advance the frontiers of the CISE core research areas. The New award class includes Grand Ensemble (Grand), Medium Ensemble (Medium), and Planning awards.
Enhance/sustain (ENS) awards support the enhancement and sustainment of an existing CISE community infrastructure to enable world-class CISE research opportunities for broad-based communities of CISE researchers that extend well beyond the awardee organization(s).