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Opportunity Summary:

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Dynamics, Control and Systems Diagnostics (DCSD) program is a discretionary grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number PD 15 7569) that supports fundamental research in how dynamic systems behave, how they can be influenced to behave in desired ways, and how information about them can be inferred from observations. In practical terms, the program is focused on the core science and engineering of systems that evolve over time, including new theory, modeling approaches, computational methods, and experimental techniques, along with novel applications to both engineered systems (like machines, structures, vehicles, robots, manufacturing processes, and infrastructure) and natural systems where dynamic behavior is central.

DCSD is organized around three closely related pillars. First, dynamics covers the analysis and understanding of time-varying behavior, including nonlinear phenomena, stability, oscillations, bifurcations, coupled systems, and multiscale effects. Second, control focuses on designing external inputs, feedback laws, and decision strategies that drive a system toward desired performance, robustness, safety, or efficiency, even under uncertainty and disturbances. Third, systems diagnostics centers on monitoring and inference: using data and observations to estimate system state, detect anomalies or faults, assess health, and identify underlying parameters or changes in behavior. Across all three areas, the program places strong emphasis on foundational advances rather than incremental improvements, and it welcomes work that develops new analytical frameworks, new computational algorithms, and new experimental platforms that enable deeper understanding or better control and diagnosis.

The program’s stated objective is the discovery of new phenomena and the investigation of innovative methods and applications in dynamics, control, and diagnostics. Proposals are evaluated for intellectual merit with particular attention to whether they introduce fundamental innovation in foundational areas of dynamics and control, and whether they have the potential for transformative impact that can carry across disciplinary boundaries. In other words, DCSD is looking for research that changes how people think about or work with dynamic systems, not just research that applies standard techniques to a new case study.

A key fit requirement is that proposals should align with the disciplinary thrusts of NSF’s CMMI Division (Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation). Projects whose primary emphasis is electromagnetic phenomena or chemical phenomena are explicitly identified as better aligned with other NSF divisions, such as ECCS (Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems) or CBET (Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems). To reduce the risk of submitting to the wrong program, principal investigators are very strongly encouraged to email the DCSD Program Directors a brief project summary of about 250 words before submitting a full proposal, specifically to confirm programmatic fit.

There is also an important boundary around sensing research. DCSD does not fund fundamental research on sensing modalities or sensor development itself. If the core novelty is in the sensor technology, sensing physics, or new sensing modalities, NSF directs applicants instead to appropriate ECCS programs such as Communications, Circuits and Sensing Systems (CCSS) or Electronics, Photonics, and Magnetic Devices (EPMD). DCSD, by contrast, is more appropriate when the sensing hardware is not the fundamental contribution and the main innovations are in dynamics, control, estimation, monitoring, diagnostic inference, or system-level analysis using measurements.

From the administrative details provided, this opportunity is a grant mechanism under the NSF Engineering Grants CFDA 47.041 category, with no cost sharing or matching requirement. Eligibility is listed as unrestricted (open to any type of entity), subject to any clarifications in the full announcement text. The opportunity was posted March 13, 2015, with a closing date of September 15, 2015, and it was archived October 15, 2020. For access issues, the listing references NSF grants.gov support at grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov.

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