AMENDMENT 8 ESSP VENTURE CLASS SCIENCE INVESTIGATIONS EARTH VENTURE 1 | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

This grant opportunity is a NASA Research Announcement update tied to ROSES 2009 (Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences) and specifically creates and describes a new program element called "ESSP Venture Class Science Investigations: Earth Venture 1" (listed as Appendix A.39). Although the notice is framed as a modification to an earlier synopsis posted June 25, 2009, the key practical change is the formal establishment of the Earth Venture 1 (EV-1) element under NASA's Earth System Science Pathfinder (ESSP) Program. NASA positions Earth Venture as a newer component of ESSP designed to fund a steady cadence of competed Earth science investigations, consistent with priorities highlighted by the National Research Council's Earth science decadal survey, "Earth Science and Applications from Space: National Imperatives for the Next Decade and Beyond." In plain terms, this is NASA setting up a specific competitive lane for relatively fast, focused, high-impact Earth science investigations.

The EV-1 solicitation is looking for complete "suborbital" science investigations that pursue innovative, integrated, hypothesis-driven (or focused scientific-question-driven) studies of the Earth system, and that involve sustained data collection over time rather than one-off snapshots. In this context, "suborbital" is defined as investigations built around airborne data acquisition systems, which can be supplemented with surface and/or subsurface facilities. That means the core measurement platform is aircraft-based instrumentation, potentially paired with ground stations, in situ sampling, ocean or land measurements, or other supporting observing assets as needed to answer the science questions. The emphasis on complete investigations suggests NASA expects proposals to include the end-to-end plan: science objectives, observing strategy, instrumentation and operations, data management and analysis, and delivery of results consistent with NASA Earth science expectations.

This is a venture-class program with firm constraints intended to keep projects bounded and executable. Each selected investigation must fit within a total life cycle of five years or less, and total investigation cost must not exceed $30 million. Cost sharing is not required. The opportunity is associated with CFDA 43.006 (Science, Recovery Act), and NASA indicates that American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 funds are expected to be used to partially fund contracts for selected proposals. Practically, this signals that some of the funding for awards will be supported by Recovery Act appropriations, which often come with additional reporting and accountability expectations, even if those specifics are not detailed in the synopsis itself.

Eligibility is broad and described as unrestricted, open to essentially all organization types, including U.S. and non-U.S entities. Eligible participants include universities and other educational organizations, industry, nonprofit organizations, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs), University Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs), NASA Centers, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), other government agencies, and similar institutions. In other words, NASA is not limiting participation to academia; they are explicitly encouraging proposals from across the research ecosystem, including government labs and the private sector, provided proposals meet the technical and programmatic requirements.

The official solicitation details were to be made available through NSPIRES (NASA's proposal and award system) at http://nspires.nasaprs.com/. Key dates listed in the notice are: release date July 10, 2009; Notice of Intent (NOI) due September 2, 2009; and full proposals due November 6, 2009 (the closing date). NASA also scheduled a pre-proposal workshop for August 26, 2009 in the Washington, DC area, with additional workshop information to be posted on the NSPIRES index page for the EV-1 element. Workshops like this are typically intended to clarify program goals, explain evaluation and compliance expectations, and allow potential proposers to ask questions before submitting.

For questions, the technical point of contact is Dr. Hal Maring at NASA Headquarters, Earth Science Division, Science Mission Directorate (phone 202-358-1679; email hal.maring@nasa.gov). For issues accessing the announcement electronically, NASA also lists NAIS Support (nais.support@nasa.gov). The notice states that it constitutes a NASA Research Announcement as contemplated under FAR 6.102(d)(2), which is a standard way of indicating the federal competitive basis and acquisition framework for research solicitations.

At a high level, the opportunity is best understood as NASA inviting teams to propose airborne-focused Earth science campaigns that are ambitious but tightly scoped: time-sustained measurements, clear hypotheses or driving science questions, integrated observing and analysis plans, and a delivery timeline and budget that fit within a five-year, $30M venture-class cap.

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