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Opportunity Summary:

The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS), partnered with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to fund research aimed at improving how chemical and biological threats are detected. The core goal of the opportunity is to push forward the next generation of mathematical and statistical algorithms that can identify, characterize, or provide early warning of potential threats, with an emphasis on methods that can handle complex, high-volume, and noisy real-world data. In practice, this call is positioned for the mathematical sciences community, encouraging foundational and applied work that advances the underlying theory as well as the algorithmic tools needed for threat-detection applications.

The solicitation highlights two main research thrusts. The first is mathematical and statistical techniques for genomics, which generally points to methods for analyzing genetic or genomic data relevant to identifying or tracking biological agents, distinguishing natural outbreaks from engineered or unusual patterns, and making reliable inferences from sequencing or other molecular measurements. The second thrust is mathematical and statistical techniques for analyzing data from sensor systems, which broadly covers algorithms for extracting signals from sensor streams that may be sparse, uncertain, or contaminated by environmental and operational noise. This can include statistical detection and classification, signal processing, data fusion across multiple sensors, anomaly detection, uncertainty quantification, and methods designed to reduce false alarms while maintaining sensitivity to true threats.

Administratively, this is a discretionary grant opportunity in the Science and Technology and other Research and Development category, with an estimated total funding level of $6,000,000 and an expectation of around 30 awards. The CFDA listing is 47.049 (Mathematical and Physical Sciences). Cost sharing or matching is not required, which typically makes participation simpler for applicants because the project budget does not need to include committed institutional match.

Eligibility is listed as unrestricted, meaning it is broadly open to applicant types (subject to any clarifications contained in the full announcement). Key dates in the record show the opportunity posted on February 24, 2010, with multiple deadline cycles, including an original closing date of May 20, 2010 and later annual full proposal deadlines of January 10 (with a current closing date shown as January 10, 2012 in the provided data). The full details, including proposal preparation requirements and any specific restrictions or review criteria, are referenced as NSF Publication 10-540. For access issues, the notice directs applicants to NSF Grants.gov support at grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov.

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