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Opportunity Summary:

ROSES 2016: Instrument Incubator Program (IIP) is a NASA Headquarters funding opportunity under the broader ROSES 2016 omnibus solicitation (NNH16ZDA001N) run by NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD). In practical terms, it is meant to move space and Earth science instrumentation and related enabling technologies forward, while also supporting the wider range of research activities NASA relies on to plan, build, and interpret science missions. The solicitation is structured as a research announcement that can support both basic and applied work, with the Instrument Incubator Program sitting within a larger menu of program elements described in the ROSES appendices.

The scope is intentionally broad because ROSES is NASA's main vehicle for competed research across SMD. The opportunity welcomes proposals that advance theory, modeling, and analysis of NASA science data, as well as work that matures new measurement approaches and experimental techniques suitable for future missions. It also spans investigations using aircraft, scientific balloons, sounding rockets, the International Space Station, CubeSats, and suborbital reusable launch vehicles, reflecting NASA's interest in proving out concepts and hardware in relevant environments before committing to larger flagship missions. Beyond instruments themselves, the solicitation highlights mission concept development, advanced technologies relevant to SMD priorities, laboratory techniques for analyzing extraterrestrial samples returned by spacecraft, and terrestrial sample analyses that help validate or interpret Earth-observing mission data. It further includes determination of atomic or compositional parameters needed for interpreting observations, Earth surface field campaigns that support mission science, integrated Earth system model development, and applied systems that turn Earth science research outputs into societally useful information products.

Funding levels vary widely depending on what is being proposed. Smaller, focused efforts such as limited analyses or targeted research tasks may be funded at under $100,000 per year, while larger, hardware-intensive or highly specialized efforts (for example, developing science experimental hardware) may exceed $1 million per year. NASA notes that the funding available for each individual program element ranges from less than $1 million to several million dollars total, which means the number of awards can swing from only a few selections to several dozen, depending on the goals of that element and the quality and volume of submissions.

NASA can make awards through several mechanisms, including grants and cooperative agreements (the two specifically listed for this opportunity category), and in some cases contracts or inter- and intra-agency transfers when appropriate. The typical performance period is three years, although certain elements may allow up to five years or require shorter durations, so applicants need to check the specific appendix entry for the program element they are targeting to understand the expected schedule and constraints.

Eligibility is broad and largely unrestricted: organizations of every type may apply, including domestic or foreign entities, governmental or private institutions, for-profit companies, and nonprofits, with no special limitations on teaming arrangements. One important condition applies to international participation: NASA policy requires that projects involving non-U.S. organizations be done on a no-exchange-of-funds basis, meaning NASA generally does not transfer funds to non-U.S. partners even if they participate in the work.

Proposals must be submitted electronically by an authorized organizational representative, and applicants can use either NSPIRES (NASA's proposal system) or Grants.gov, depending on the element and the submission pathway. Registration is mandatory and should be completed well ahead of deadlines: every organization planning to submit must be registered in NSPIRES; organizations submitting via Grants.gov must be registered in both Grants.gov and NSPIRES. In addition, all principal investigators and any other participants such as co-investigators must have NSPIRES registrations regardless of which submission system is used, because NASA uses NSPIRES for participant tracking and proposal processing.

The key operational details, including the specific program element descriptions, required proposal content, evaluation factors, due dates, and points of contact, are located in the ROSES appendices and in the tables that list individual calls. For this specific posting, the closing date is July 11, 2016. NASA also emphasizes that ROSES is updated through amendments, clarifications, and corrections, so proposers are expected to monitor NSPIRES and NASA's ROSES 2016 webpage archive (including the RSS feed) through February 2017, when the next ROSES release was planned. For applicant support, NASA provides a frequently asked questions page for ROSES 2016, and directs technical or program-element-specific questions to the program officers listed in the appendices, while general policy and procedural questions can be sent to the SMD research contact email (sara@nasa.gov), with Max Bernstein named as the lead contact for ROSES-wide issues.

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