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Opportunity Summary:

The National Science Foundation (NSF), through the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and its Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS), offered this grant opportunity to support research and education projects that advance fundamental knowledge in information and intelligent systems. The solicitation is designed to fund work that pushes core computer and information science forward, while also building capacity through education and training, typically by supporting graduate students, research staff, and related research infrastructure tied to the proposed project goals.

The program is organized around three IIS core research programs. The Human-Centered Computing (HCC) program focuses on how people interact with computing technologies and how systems can be designed to better support human needs, abilities, and contexts. The Information Integration and Informatics (III) program emphasizes methods and systems for combining, managing, and extracting value from diverse data sources, including issues related to data representation, integration, retrieval, and large-scale information use. The Robust Intelligence (RI) program supports research aimed at creating intelligent systems that are reliable and effective in real-world settings, including learning, reasoning, perception, adaptation, and resilience under uncertainty or changing conditions. In addition to these three tracks, IIS manages the review process for computer graphics and visualization proposals, and those proposals can be submitted under any of the three core programs when aligned with their objectives.

A key feature of the opportunity is that it accepts proposals in three project size classes, which differ by total budget and project duration. Small Projects are intended for focused efforts with total budgets up to $500,000 and durations up to three years. Medium Projects support broader efforts with budgets from $500,001 to $1,200,000 and durations up to four years. Large Projects are meant for more ambitious, potentially multi-investigator or multi-component efforts, with budgets from $1,200,001 to $3,000,000 and durations up to five years. The solicitation notes that more detail on these classes is provided in the Program Description section of the full announcement, which typically clarifies expectations such as scope, team structure, and what reviewers may look for at each scale.

In terms of overall funding context, IIS investments in Small, Medium, and Large projects are positioned as complementary to CISEs larger-scale "Expeditions in Computing" program, which can fund projects up to $10,000,000 over as many as five years. That framing signals that IIS Core Programs are meant to cover a wide range of foundational and applied research in IIS areas, from smaller, tightly scoped contributions to larger, more comprehensive research agendas, while Expeditions targets especially transformative, community-shaping efforts at a higher funding level.

Administratively, this opportunity (NSF Publication 09-557; Funding Opportunity Number 09-557) is a discretionary grant program in the Science and Technology and other Research and Development category, under CFDA 47.070 (Computer and Information Science and Engineering). The estimated total funding listed is $90,000,000, with an award floor of $50,000 and an award ceiling of $3,000,000, aligning with the maximum for the Large Project class. The solicitation anticipated roughly 200 awards, and it specified no cost sharing or matching requirement. Eligibility was listed as unrestricted, meaning it was broadly open to applicant entity types, subject to any additional constraints described in the full text of the announcement.

The solicitation used recurring annual submission windows that differed by project class. For the 2009 cycle shown in the notice, Small Projects had an August submission window (8/1 to 8/30), Medium Projects had a November window (11/1 to 11/28), and Large Projects had a December window (12/1 to 12/17), with the note that similar windows would occur annually thereafter. The posting date was April 24, 2009, and the archived record indicates the opportunity was later superseded by an updated solicitation (10-571), with an archive date of June 9, 2010 and a listed current closing date of June 8, 2010 referencing the update.

For access and support, the announcement points applicants to NSF grants.gov support (grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov) for difficulties accessing the announcement electronically. The primary takeaway for prospective proposers is that IIS Core Programs is a major NSF pathway for funding foundational advances in human-centered computing, data and information integration, and robust intelligent systems, with multiple budget/duration tiers that allow investigators to match proposal scope to an appropriate project class while remaining within clearly defined award limits.

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