Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation - SSE & SSI

Funding Opportunity Number: 13-525 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: GrantCategory of Funding Activity: Science and Technology and other Research and DevelopmentCFDA Number: 47.04147.04947.05047.07047.07447.07547.07647.07947.08047.081Eligible Applicants Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)Agency Name: NSFClosing Date: Opportunity NSF 13-525 has been archived and replaced by NSF 14-520Award Ceiling: $5,000,000Expected Number of Awards: 25Creation Date: Jan 13, 2014Funding Opportunity Description: Software is an integral enabler of computation, experiment and theory and a primary modality for realizing the Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21) vision, as described in http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10015/nsf10015.jsp. Scientific discovery and innovation are advancing along fundamentally new pathways opened by development of increasingly sophisticated software. Software is also directly responsible for increased scientific productivity and significant enhancement of researchers' capabilities. In order to nurture, accelerate and sustain this critical mode of scientific progress, NSF has established the Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) program, with the overarching goal of transforming innovations in research and education into sustained software resources that are an integral part of the cyberinfra...
Source: Grants.gov - Category: Research Tags: Science and Technology and other Research and Development Source Type: funding