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Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS)

This is a canvass to determine whether an internal competition will be necessary for this limited submission program. If you are interested in applying to this program, you must notify OPD by submitting the internal competitions form. Pre-applications are not yet required.

The NSF is now accepting applications for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS). The program aims to establish a suite of cyberinfrastructure (CI) coordination services, meant to support a broad and diverse set of requirements, users, and usage modes from all areas of science and engineering (S&E) research and education. Stony Brook University may submit ONE proposal as the lead organization. 
 
Please see below for details. If you are interested in applying, you must submit the internal competitions form by Monday, March 1, 2021. The competition code for this program is LC202121.
 
WHAT DOES IT FUND: This solicitation expects to fund five awards for five independently-managed yet tightly-coordinated services defined in the following five tracks: (1) Allocation Services; (2) End User Support Services; (3) Operations & Integration Services; (4) Monitoring & Measurement Services; and (5) Technology Translation Services. These services are expected to:

  • Provide key capabilities including the discovery of and access to available resources, access to relevant and timely expert technical guidance and focused instruction on effective uses of these CI capabilities, and support for developmental efforts to support the evolving portfolio of NSF-funded S&E;
  • Ensure the effective management, operation, monitoring and measurement, evolution, and overall use of computing resources, and integrate these resources into a coherent, coordinated national CI ecosystem;
  • Increase user accessibility, enable collaboration, simplify use of CI in dynamic system-of-systems scenarios, support access to relevant data, and enable timely access to novel technologies and solutions; and
  • Interface closely with the ACCESS Coordination Office on strategic planning and policy efforts, ACCESS-wide meeting and reporting activities, and other endeavors spanning several or all coordination service tracks.

APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS: An individual may be the PI on no more than one proposal that responds to this solicitation. An individual may also serve as a co-PI or senior personnel on proposals to tracks other than the track to which they have submitted a proposal as the PI.

AWARD:

  • Track 1 - Allocation Services: Up to $7,500,000 total for a duration of five years.
  • Track 2 - End User Support Services: Up to $10,000,000 total for a duration of five years.
  • Track 3 - Operations and Integration Services: Up to $20,000,000 total for a duration of five years.
  • Track 4 - Monitoring & Measurement Services: Up to $10,000,000 total for a duration of five years.
  • Track 5 - Technology Translation Services: Up to $10,000,000 total for a duration of five years.

SPONSOR DEADLINE:  June 16, 2021