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Opportunity Summary:

The National Science Foundation (NSF), through the Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) in the Directorate for Engineering (ENG), offered this grant opportunity to support earthquake engineering research that makes substantial, central use of the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES). The program is designed to push forward both fundamental knowledge and practical innovation aimed at reducing losses from earthquakes and tsunamis affecting the United States civil infrastructure. In addition to hazard mitigation outcomes, the solicitation also targets advances in experimental simulation methods and the development of new instrumentation that can strengthen NEES as a national research capability.

A key requirement is that proposed projects must meaningfully rely on NEES resources. NEES is described as a coordinated network of 14 experimental facilities (equipment sites) that researchers can access in person, in the field, or remotely through telepresence. These sites include major earthquake engineering test capabilities such as shake tables for dynamic structural testing, geotechnical centrifuges for modeling soil-structure interaction under scaled gravity fields, a tsunami wave basin for coastal and inundation studies, large-scale structural testing laboratories, and both mobile and permanently installed field equipment for capturing real-world response data. The expectation is not casual or incidental use; the solicitation emphasizes "significant use" of one or more NEES sites and the related cyberinfrastructure, or significant reuse of NEES-curated data.

The opportunity also highlights the role of NEEShub, the cyberinfrastructure platform that connects the equipment sites via Internet2 and supports end-to-end experimentation. NEEShub provides tools for online planning, executing, and post-processing experiments, along with collaborative features and telepresence capabilities that allow distributed teams to participate in testing. It also includes the NEES Project Warehouse, a centralized data repository where experiment data are curated and archived, and the NEES Academy, which supports education and outreach. Importantly, the program explicitly welcomes proposals that generate new scientific insights primarily through reuse of existing NEES Project Warehouse data, either by itself or combined with new testing. For data reuse-only projects, the eligible datasets must be publicly viewable and available in the Warehouse, and they must be curated and archived there, reinforcing a focus on reproducibility, transparency, and maximizing the value of prior federally supported experiments.

From an administrative standpoint, this was a discretionary NSF grant program (Funding Opportunity Number 11-566) in the "Science and Technology and other Research and Development" activity category, tied to CFDA 47.041 (Engineering Grants). NSF anticipated making about 14 awards, with an estimated total program funding level of $9,000,000. The announcement lists an award floor of $50,000 and an award ceiling of $12,000,000, indicating that project sizes could vary widely, from relatively focused studies to large, multi-component efforts. Cost sharing or matching was not required, which is consistent with many NSF research solicitations.

Eligibility was limited to U.S.-accredited academic institutions, specifically universities and colleges, including two-year and four-year institutions (including community colleges), as long as they are accredited in and have a campus located in the United States and submit proposals on behalf of their faculty. The posting date and creation date were July 29, 2011, and the full proposal deadline (original and current) was November 2, 2011. The solicitation points applicants to NSF Publication 11-566 for the full announcement details and provides guidance to contact NSF Grants.gov support for access or technical issues related to the posting.

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