FUNDING OPPORTUNITY NUMBER:DE-FOA-0003417.
FUNDING PROGRAM: DOE Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) – FY 2025 Phase 1 Release 1.
FUNDING AGENCY: DOE Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program.
OPPORTUNITY:
The mission of the DOE Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program is to support transformative science and scientific user facilities to achieve a predictive understanding of complex biological, earth, and environmental systems for energy and infrastructure security and resilience. The program seeks to understand the biological, biogeochemical, and physical principles needed to fundamentally understand and be able to predict processes occurring at the molecular and genomics-controlled smallest scales to environmental and ecological processes at the scale of planet Earth. Starting with the genetic information encoded in organisms’ genomes, BER research seeks to discover the principles that guide the translation of the genetic code into the functional proteins and metabolic and regulatory networks underlying the systems biology of plants and microbes as they respond to and modify their environments.
DESCRIPTION:
BER has interests in the following areas:
- Biological Systems Science subprogram carries out basic research to underpin development of sustainable bioenergy production and to gain a predictive understanding of carbon, nutrient, and metal transformation in the environment in support of DOE’s energy and environmental missions. Genomic Science research is multifaceted in scope and includes a complementary set of activities in basic biological research focused on DOE’s efforts in bioenergy development.
- Earth and Environmental Systems Sciences Division (EESSD) activities include fundamental science and research capabilities that enable major scientific developments in Earth system-relevant atmospheric and ecosystem process and modeling research in support of DOE’s mission goals for transformative science for energy and national security. This includes research on components such as clouds, aerosols, terrestrial ecology, watersheds, terrestrial-aquatic interfaces, as well as modeling of component interdependencies under a variety of forcing conditions, interdependence of climate and ecosystem variabilities, vulnerability, and resilience of the full suite of energy and related infrastructures to extreme events, and uncertainty quantification. It also supports terrestrial ecosystem and subsurface biogeochemical research that advances fundamental understanding of coupled physical, chemical, and biological processes controlling energy byproducts in the environment. The subprogram supports three primary research activities, two national scientific user facilities, and a data activity. The two national scientific user facilities are the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Research Facility and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory.
ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS:
Small Businesses.
MATCHING FUNDS:
Cost sharing under this FOA is not required. However, any commercial contribution will be considered as part of the evaluation.
FUNDING AVAILABLE:
FUNDING AVAILABILITY: $24 million.
AWARD CEILING: $200,000 or $250,000 for SBIR and STTR grants.
APPLICATION DEADLINE(S):
Letters of Intent: August 27, 2024.
Applications: October 8, 2024.
