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Opportunity Summary:

The National Science Foundation's Cross Directorate Activities (CDA) opportunity is a Foundation-wide umbrella program focused on strengthening the people and infrastructure that support research, especially within the social, behavioral, and economic sciences. It sits in the Office of Cross Directorate Activities and serves as a hub for cross-cutting programs in which NSF's Division of Social and Economic Sciences and Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences participate. In practical terms, CDA both runs certain initiatives directly and helps coordinate broader NSF efforts that cut across organizational lines, with an emphasis on building capacity, improving research infrastructure, and developing the scientific workforce.

A central theme of CDA is human resource development, especially expanding and sustaining participation in science and engineering among groups that have historically been underrepresented. The program description highlights NSF-wide goals such as increasing participation of women, racial and ethnic minorities, and people with disabilities. Alongside broadening participation, CDA also supports efforts that encourage and recognize promising new faculty and that enhance opportunities across the training pipeline, including undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral activities. Another major aim is improving the infrastructure of the social and behavioral sciences, which can include the systems, resources, and organizational supports that enable high-quality research and training.

Beyond training and participation goals, CDA funds special studies, analyses, and workshops that address issues affecting social and behavioral science disciplines. These can include topics that cross division priorities or span organizational boundaries, meaning the work is often intended to inform the field or NSF decision-making rather than support a single narrow research question. Overall, the program supports activities that respond to needs in education, workforce development, and the creation of a diverse personnel pool, and it explicitly encourages prospective investigators to discuss project ideas with program directors before submitting.

From an application standpoint, the opportunity is listed as a discretionary grant program under CFDA 47.075 (Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) and indicates no cost sharing or matching requirement. Eligibility is described as "unrestricted," meaning it is broadly open to applicant types unless additional eligibility details in the full program materials impose limits. Importantly, the program has no fixed deadline, so proposals may be submitted at any time, making it suitable for projects that do not align neatly with annual or semiannual competitions.

The solicitation also reflects NSF's 2005 shift toward offering electronic submission options through Grants.gov as part of the President's Management Agenda. Applicants could choose to submit either through Grants.gov or through NSF FastLane, but there is a key restriction: all collaborative proposals must be submitted via NSF FastLane. That includes collaborations submitted as a single proposal with subawards as well as multi-organization collaborative proposals submitted as separate-but-linked submissions. Collaborative proposals submitted through Grants.gov would be rejected and applicants would be asked to withdraw and resubmit using FastLane. For formatting and compliance, proposals submitted through FastLane follow the standard NSF Grant Proposal Guide, while proposals submitted through Grants.gov must follow the NSF Grants.gov Application Guide.

Administrative details in the listing include the funding opportunity number PD 04-1397 and a posted date of June 6, 2005, with the record later archived (archive date June 23, 2011). Even though the archived status suggests the specific listing is no longer active as written, the description provides a clear picture of what CDA was designed to support: cross-directorate, field-strengthening investments that build inclusive participation, develop researchers across career stages, and improve the infrastructure and strategic knowledge base of the social and behavioral sciences.

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