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Opportunity Summary:

This opportunity comes from the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), a part of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and one of the United States thirteen principal federal statistical agencies. NCSES is the federal home for objective statistics about the science and engineering enterprise in the United States and in other countries, covering areas such as research and development activity, the science and engineering workforce, STEM education, and broader indicators of U.S. science and technology competitiveness. The data NCSES produces supports practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and the general public, and it directly feeds major national reference publications, including the National Science Board's biennial Science and Engineering Indicators report and the recurring Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering report.

The core purpose of the grant program, titled Research on the Science and Technology Enterprise Statistics and Surveys, is to strengthen the research foundation behind NCSES surveys and statistics while also expanding the community of researchers trained to work with large, nationally representative datasets. NCSES is explicitly looking for work that either uses NCSES datasets to generate new insights about the science and technology enterprise or improves the statistical and methodological tools that make those datasets more accurate, useful, and accessible. In practical terms, the program supports analytic research (for example, studies that use NCSES data to answer important questions about R&D, the STEM pipeline, or workforce dynamics), methodological research (such as improvements to survey design, sampling, nonresponse adjustment, measurement, or questionnaire development), indicator development (creating or refining metrics that summarize science and technology activities and resources), and better methods for analyzing, reporting, and disseminating NCSES statistics so they can be more effectively used by decision-makers and the research community.

NCSES invites a wide range of project types rather than limiting applicants to a single research format. Proposals may be submitted for individual or multi-investigator research projects, doctoral dissertation improvement awards, workshops, experimental research, survey research, and projects focused on data collection, dissemination, or related infrastructure that strengthens how science and technology statistics are produced and used. This framing signals that NCSES values both substantive findings about the science and engineering enterprise and the behind-the-scenes statistical advances that improve the quality and interpretability of national indicators.

The funding opportunity is a discretionary NSF grant in the broad category of science and technology and other research and development. The opportunity anticipated about 12 awards with an estimated total funding level of $750,000, and it is listed under CFDA 47.075 within the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences domain. There is no cost sharing or matching requirement stated, which means applicants are not expected to provide non-federal matching funds as a condition of award.

Eligibility aligns with NSF's standard rules for research proposals as described in the NSF Grant Proposal Guide, which generally includes universities and colleges, nonprofit organizations, for-profit organizations, and certain other eligible entities depending on NSF policy. For the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) track specifically, proposals must be submitted by U.S.-accredited doctoral degree-granting universities or colleges with a U.S. campus, acting on behalf of their faculty members. The leadership structure for DDRIG proposals is also defined: the dissertation advisor must serve as the Principal Investigator, and the student must be listed as the co-Principal Investigator. For standard research proposals, there are no special restrictions or limits on who may serve as PI beyond NSF's usual eligibility and compliance requirements.

Key dates in the notice indicate that the original posting occurred on November 20, 2014, with the opportunity created on March 4, 2015. The solicitation lists a full proposal deadline of February 18, 2015, and then a continuing annual deadline pattern of January 15, 2016, January 15 annually thereafter, with the listed current closing date at the time being January 15, 2016. The opportunity is archived through February 16, 2028, which typically reflects that the notice remains available for reference even if submission windows are tied to NSF's recurring annual cycles.

For applicants, the practical takeaway is that NCSES is funding work that either (1) leverages NCSES data to produce credible, policy-relevant research on the U.S. and global science and engineering enterprise or (2) measurably improves the surveys, statistical methods, and indicators that underpin those data products. Projects that also build capacity such as training researchers to responsibly use large-scale nationally representative datasets, improving dissemination approaches, or hosting workshops that strengthen the user community fit naturally within the program's stated goals. The funding announcement is associated with NSF Publication 15-521, and technical help for accessing the announcement is routed through NSF's grants.gov support channel.

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