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Opportunity Summary:

ROSES 2008 Planetary Protection Research (PPR) is one program element under NASA Headquarters broader Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences 2008 (ROSES 2008) solicitation, issued as a NASA Research Announcement (NRA) under funding opportunity number NNH08ZDA001N. The overall ROSES 2008 announcement invites proposals that support NASA Science Mission Directorate priorities through basic and applied research and technology development spanning Earth Science, Heliophysics, Planetary Science, and Astrophysics. Within that larger structure, the Planetary Protection Research element is intended to advance work that helps NASA prevent harmful biological contamination during space exploration, supporting both forward contamination control (protecting other worlds from Earth microbes) and backward contamination considerations (protecting Earth in the context of sample return and related activities), consistent with NASA planetary protection objectives and mission needs.

The opportunity funds a wide range of science and technology activities rather than a single narrow topic, reflecting ROSES overall scope. Proposed work may include theory, modeling, and analysis tied to NASA science data; development of methods and experiment techniques suitable for future missions; and the maturation of concepts and advanced technologies relevant to spaceflight. It also explicitly includes laboratory techniques and analyses for extraterrestrial samples returned by spacecraft, plus terrestrial samples used to validate or support mission observations. Other eligible work described in ROSES includes determining atomic and compositional parameters needed to interpret space data and returned samples, Earth surface observations and field campaigns that support NASA science missions, integrated Earth system modeling, and development of applied information systems that connect Earth science research data to societal needs. In practical terms for PPR, this broad menu means NASA is open to research that strengthens contamination control approaches, measurement and verification methods, and enabling technologies that make planetary protection more effective, testable, and mission ready.

Funding levels vary widely by the specific program element and the scale of the proposed effort. ROSES 2008 notes that awards can be under $100,000 per year for focused efforts such as data analysis, and can exceed $1,000,000 per year for large, extensive activities such as developing science experiment hardware. The amount available within any given program element ranges from less than $1 million to several million dollars, allowing NASA to select anywhere from a few to several dozen proposals depending on program priorities, proposal quality, and the number of meritorious submissions. The typical period of performance is about four years, though some elements may specify shorter or longer durations.

NASA indicates it may issue awards using different legal instruments depending on the proposer and the work: grants, cooperative agreements, contracts, and inter- or intra-agency transfers. The listed funding instrument types for this opportunity include grants and cooperative agreements, and the solicitation states there is no cost sharing or matching requirement. Participation is broadly open and essentially unrestricted by organization type. Eligible applicants can include universities and other educational institutions, private industry, nonprofit organizations, NASA centers, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and other government agencies, with no stated limits on teaming or the number of submissions. Foreign entities may participate, but NASA policy requires that any investigations involving non-US organizations be conducted with no exchange of funds, which is an important practical constraint for international collaborations.

The ROSES 2008 solicitation became available around February 15, 2008 through the NSPIRES portal (the NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System), with program elements also discoverable via Grants.gov search. For the Planetary Protection Research (PPR) element specifically, the posting date shown is June 9, 2008, with an original and current closing date of September 5, 2008, and an archive date of October 5, 2008. Across ROSES as a whole, proposal due dates began May 9, 2008 and extended through March 27, 2009, because different program elements had different deadlines. NASA also requested Notices of Intent for most program elements, with early NOI due dates beginning March 14, 2008, to help NASA plan the review workload.

Submission and registration requirements are emphasized. Proposals had to be submitted electronically by an authorized official of the proposing organization, using either NSPIRES or Grants.gov depending on the program element and applicant preference. Any organization planning to submit needed to be registered in NSPIRES, and organizations submitting through Grants.gov also needed Grants.gov registration. Registration had to identify the authorized organizational representative(s) who would submit the proposal, and all principal investigators and co-investigators had to be individually registered in NSPIRES. NASA strongly encouraged prospective applicants to start these registrations well ahead of deadlines to avoid last-minute access or submission problems. For locating individual ROSES elements in Grants.gov, NASA instructed applicants to use the Advanced Search feature and search by the ROSES funding opportunity number (NNH08ZDA001N) to pull up the list of posted elements, then select the specific element package.

For questions, the announcement points applicants to the individual program officers listed in each program element summary for element-specific guidance. General ROSES policy and procedure questions were directed to Dr. Yvonne Pendleton, Senior Advisor for Research and Analysis in NASA Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters, with contact details provided in the announcement.

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