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Opportunity Summary:

The National Science Foundation (NSF), through the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate and its Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS), offered this discretionary grant opportunity to support research and education projects that advance fundamental knowledge in information and intelligent systems. The solicitation is identified as NSF Publication / Funding Opportunity Number 15-574, titled "Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) Core Programs," and it sits under CFDA 47.070 (Computer and Information Science and Engineering). In plain terms, this program is designed to fund work that pushes forward the science and engineering foundations behind how people and machines interact, how information is integrated and used, and how intelligent behavior is made more robust and reliable.

The opportunity is organized around three IIS core research programs. The Cyber Human Systems (CHS) program focuses on the interplay between humans and computing systems, including how systems can be designed to better support people and how people, in turn, influence system behavior and outcomes. The Information Integration and Informatics (III) program emphasizes methods and systems for combining, managing, and making sense of heterogeneous information, often spanning multiple sources, formats, and contexts. The Robust Intelligence (RI) program targets the underlying principles and approaches needed to build intelligent systems that can perform reliably in the real world, including settings that are uncertain, dynamic, or otherwise challenging. Importantly, the solicitation notes that proposals in computer graphics and visualization are welcome and may be submitted to any of these three core programs, giving proposers flexibility to align graphics/visualization work with human-centered, information-centric, or intelligence-centric framing depending on the research thrust.

NSF invited submissions across three project size classes, each defined by a total budget range and a maximum project duration. Small Projects could request up to $500,000 in total costs for a period of up to three years. Medium Projects could request between $500,001 and $1,200,000 in total costs for up to four years. Large Projects could request between $1,200,001 and $3,000,000 in total costs for up to five years. The stated award floor for the solicitation was $50,000, and the award ceiling was $3,000,000. The solicitation also indicates that further detail on these project classes is provided in Section II (Program Description) of the full announcement.

From a funding and competitiveness standpoint, the program was substantial: NSF estimated approximately $100,000,000 in total funding available and anticipated making around 200 awards. The funding instrument type is a grant, and the activity category is listed as science and technology and other research and development. There was no cost sharing or matching requirement, which generally means proposers were not required to commit institutional funds as a condition of consideration, though standard NSF budget and allowability rules would still apply.

Eligibility was listed as "Unrestricted," meaning the opportunity was broadly open to a wide range of applicant entity types, subject to any clarifications in the full text under the eligibility section. Key dates included a posted/created date of June 2, 2015, with an original and current closing date of September 24, 2015 (with the deadline applying across Small, Medium, and Large project classes as indicated). The opportunity was later archived on December 19, 2018. For applicants needing help accessing the announcement through Grants.gov, the listed support contact was grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov, and the solicitation referenced an additional information link pointing to NSF Publication 15-574.

Overall, this IIS Core Programs solicitation can be read as a broad umbrella funding opportunity for foundational and use-inspired advances in information and intelligent systems, with multiple budget scales to match the maturity and scope of a research agenda, and with explicit openness to computer graphics and visualization work when framed within CHS, III, or RI priorities.

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