National Science Foundation

NSF X-Labs Initiative seeks input on next-generation platform technology opportunities, technical bottlenecks, and enabling infrastructure to accelerate scientific breakthroughs through dedicated teams.

NSF seeks small businesses to develop next-generation scientific instrumentation and experimental platforms that enable breakthrough discoveries. This pilot program funds innovative tools and AI-driven research infrastructure to advance the U.S. scientific enterprise.

NSF seeks proposals to unlock hidden value in existing scientific datasets through AI-driven feature extraction, metadata generation, and automated analysis pipelines. Enable interdisciplinary discovery by harmonizing data for AI tools while addressing security, governance, and community contribution frameworks.

NSF is funding regional AI Infrastructure Hubs to expand computing access for AI-enabled scientific discovery. This program connects researchers to shared compute resources while developing workforce expertise in AI applications across science and engineering.

NSF seeks engineering faculty to develop expertise in education research focused on professional formation of engineers. This program builds a new research community to address how engineers are trained and shaped for inclusive, responsive practice.

NSF supports mathematics research driven by real-world science and engineering problems, seeking proposals that demonstrate mathematical innovation and practical impact. Projects involving junior researcher training and interdisciplinary collaboration are particularly encouraged.

NSF seeks use-inspired research and translational activities that move scientific discoveries from the lab to real-world practice. Three tracks support researchers at different stages: exploring applications of existing research, maturing translational ideas, or scaling solutions through strategic partnerships with industry and other stakeholders.

NSF FINDERS FOUNDRY supports K-12 educators, technologists, and researchers collaborating to develop AI-integrated learning solutions and tools. Teams co-design evidence-based technologies addressing real challenges identified by students and educators to prepare the workforce for an AI-driven future.

LSAMP funds alliances of colleges and universities to increase STEM degrees among underrepresented minorities through evidence-based strategies, from community college transfers to graduate research pathways, addressing the critical need to diversify the nation's STEM workforce.

NSF seeks innovative STEM education projects at two-year colleges that enhance student success and faculty capacity. Funding supports disciplinary, multi-department, and college-wide initiatives addressing foundational courses and academic pathways for both majors and non-majors.

Support early-career scientists conducting dissertation research on Arctic environmental and social systems change. Funding advances fundamental understanding of rapid Arctic transformation and builds STEM workforce capacity in polar sciences.

NSF ELEGANT ecosystem program coordinating R&D in low-dimensional electronics for AI, HPC, and advanced communications. Seeks ecosystem coordinator and expert teams across five translation themes from materials to AI-enabled acceleration.

NSF X-Labs Initiative soliciting innovative early-stage platform technologies for AI systems operating in physical environments including robotics, embodied systems, human-robot interfaces, advanced sensing, and cyber-physical systems.

NSF seeks foundational research on wave-based computing approaches that leverage wave dynamics principles for novel computation methods. Projects will advance transformative computing paradigms with potential long-term impact on strategic technology priorities.

NSF seeks to transform open-source tools into secure, sustainable ecosystems addressing national challenges in AI, cybersecurity, and critical infrastructure. Funding supports establishing governance structures, expanding promising projects, and enhancing safety and security across distributed developer communities.

NSF seeks proposals to develop AI and cybersecurity education programs and scholarships, addressing critical workforce shortages in these fields. Support includes both scholarship funding for students and innovation grants to enhance curricula, partnerships, and training methods.

NSF seeks proposals to develop and operate novel national-scale cyberinfrastructure systems that enable data-intensive and AI-driven research across science and engineering disciplines.

NSF seeks ambitious, multidisciplinary computing research teams to pursue transformative 7-10 year agendas in areas like AI architectures, embodied intelligence, and next-generation networks. Awards up to $15M support high-risk foundational breakthroughs that single disciplines cannot achieve alone.

Develop expertise at the intersection of AI and biology to become a field leader applying machine learning to biological systems. This fellowship trains postdocs to drive biotechnology breakthroughs and innovations that strengthen the U.S. economy.

NSF X-Labs Other Transaction Agreement framework for establishing full-time interdisciplinary R&D teams to develop novel platform technologies aligned with NSF Topic Announcements.

NSF seeks foundational engineering research on novel electrical, photonic, quantum devices, advanced communications systems, and control/learning technologies. Research aims to explore new scientific principles without requiring near-term commercial outcomes.

NSF seeks foundational geoscience research advancing knowledge across atmospheric, Earth, and ocean sciences. Projects should be intellectually ambitious and potentially transformative, with no requirement for immediate commercial applications.

NSF seeks foundational research in advanced manufacturing, civil infrastructure, intelligent systems, and materials science. Projects should pursue intellectually ambitious breakthroughs without requiring near-term commercial outcomes.

NSF seeks fundamental research on mass, momentum, energy, and species transport across multiple scales. Projects combine experiments, theory, and modeling to advance AI, manufacturing, biotechnology, energy, and quantum science applications.

NSF seeks foundational engineering research on novel electrical, photonic, quantum devices, and advanced communications/sensing systems. Projects should explore transformative capabilities without requiring near-term commercialization or deployment plans.