ROA 2007 A.6 Entry, Descent, and Landing 1 | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

ROA 2007 A.6 Entry, Descent, and Landing 1 is a NASA Headquarters funding opportunity released under the larger NASA Research Announcement (NRA) titled "Research Opportunities in Aeronautics" (solicitation number NNH07ZEA001N). The purpose of the NRA is to support foundational aeronautics research aligned with NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD). While this specific listing is labeled as an Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) program element, it sits within a broad, agency-wide aeronautics solicitation framework designed to fund research that strengthens core knowledge, methods, tools, and capabilities NASA and the U.S. aeronautics community rely on.

The NRA covers four major ARMD programs, and proposals are expected to map to the most relevant program element described in the NRA appendices. These four programs include the Airspace Systems Program, which targets air traffic management research supporting the Next Generation Air Transportation Systems (NGATS) initiative as defined by the Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO); the Aviation Safety Program, which emphasizes proactive work to address safety challenges across both legacy and emerging vehicles to improve the safety of current and future air transportation; the Fundamental Aeronautics Program, which focuses on longer-term, high-impact research across all flight regimes to generate data, insights, and design tools useful across many types of air vehicles; and the Aeronautics Test Program (under the Shared Capability Assets Program, SCAP), which is oriented toward protecting and preserving key aeronautics test facilities. The solicitation is structured so that applicants do not submit to a single generic bucket; instead, they select and respond to the specific program element that best matches their technical idea, and the detailed requirements and evaluation factors are provided in the appendices for those elements.

From an applicant's standpoint, the opportunity is run as a broad agency announcement under FAR 35.016 and NASA FAR Supplement (NFS) 1835.016. That matters because it signals a research-oriented competition where merit, relevance, and technical approach are central, and NASA retains discretion regarding the most appropriate award instrument for selected proposals. The published funding instrument types for this opportunity include grants and cooperative agreements, and NASA notes that even if the opportunity appears on systems like FedBizOpps.gov and/or Grants.gov, the agency still reserves the right to choose the award mechanism it considers appropriate for each selected effort. No cost sharing or matching is required according to the listing.

Eligibility is broadly open, described as "unrestricted," with a key caveat: government organizations and Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) are identified as exceptions to general participation. Otherwise, the solicitation welcomes proposals from a wide range of entities, including universities, private industry, and nonprofit organizations. Practically, this means the competition is intended to draw ideas from across the aeronautics R and D ecosystem, not just from academia or only from traditional government contractors.

Submission is electronic and can be completed through NASA's NSPIRES system or through Grants.gov, but in either case the submission must be made by an authorized official of the proposing organization. Organizations intending to apply must register in NSPIRES and identify their authorized organizational representative(s). There are also registration and profile requirements for principal investigators and other participants such as co-investigators, which is why NASA strongly encourages teams to get into the systems early, well before the due date, to avoid last-minute registration problems. For applicants using Grants.gov, NASA describes a method to locate the specific program elements: use the Advanced Search function and search by the funding opportunity number "NNH07ZEA001N" (as posted, this produces a list of the program elements), then download the application package tied to the specific element you are targeting.

Key dates and administrative details in the listing indicate the opportunity was posted July 9, 2007, with an original and current closing date of August 20, 2007, and an archive date of August 21, 2007. The opportunity category is discretionary, and the activity focus is science and technology and other research and development. The CFDA number is listed as 00.000 (not elsewhere classified), which is sometimes used in older listings when the program does not map neatly onto a single CFDA entry in the way other assistance programs do.

For questions, the listing directs prospective applicants to the Program Officers identified in the "Summary of Key Information" for each program element within the NRA, since those individuals can address element-specific scope and fit. For general policy and procedure questions about the NRA, the point of contact is Jay Dryer, Senior Technical Advisor at NASA Headquarters within ARMD, reachable at NASA_roa@nasa.gov and by phone at 202-358-0695.

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