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Opportunity Summary:

The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science, through its Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), issued this funding opportunity to create and support Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) Institutes. These institutes are meant to act as long-term, community-facing hubs that strengthen the applied mathematics and computer science foundations behind large-scale scientific modeling and simulation. The core idea is to accelerate scientific discovery by developing algorithms, methods, and high-quality scientific software that help researchers take full advantage of the nation s most powerful computing resources, especially the leadership-class systems at places like the Oak Ridge and Argonne Leadership Computing Facilities and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, as well as comparable systems expected over roughly the next five years.

The mission of the SciDAC Institutes under this announcement is to provide deep intellectual and technical capacity in areas that often determine whether major simulations succeed or stall: scalable algorithms, numerical methods, software infrastructure, and other computational tools that can be reused across multiple scientific domains. While separate, forthcoming announcements were expected to fund the domain science efforts (for example, partnerships focused on specific scientific challenge areas), this particular FOA focuses on the crosscutting institute layer that builds broadly useful capabilities. In practice, the institutes are intended to lower barriers that prevent scientists from efficiently using state-of-the-art computational platforms, help organize approaches to computational grand challenges that cut across multiple application areas, and provide ways to incorporate and demonstrate the value of basic research advances from applied math and computer science in real scientific workflows. Another explicit emphasis is community building: creating plans and mechanisms to grow, connect, and engage the U.S. computational science community so that the tools, practices, and expertise developed by the institutes spread beyond a single project team.

From an administrative and funding standpoint, the opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number DE FOA 0000505) was posted February 23, 2011, with an application deadline of May 2, 2011, and an archive date of May 23, 2011. DOE anticipated making about 15 awards, with an estimated total program funding level of about 13,000,000. Individual awards were expected to fall between 150,000 and 1,000,000. The assistance listing is under CFDA 81.049 (Office of Science Financial Assistance Program). The announcement indicates no cost sharing or matching requirement. The award instruments listed include cooperative agreements and grants, reflecting that DOE may expect varying levels of agency involvement depending on the project.

Eligibility was broadly open (unrestricted across entity types) with a few important exclusions: other federal agencies could not apply, Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) contractors were excluded, and certain 501(c)(4) nonprofit organizations that engaged in lobbying activities after December 31, 1995 were not eligible. A companion program announcement specifically for DOE Laboratories (LAB 11 505) was referenced, indicating that DOE labs had a parallel path tailored to their status and contracting framework. Applicants were directed to obtain the full FOA text and application package instructions through FedConnect, which served as the authoritative source for submission requirements and details. For access issues or questions, the announcement provided contacts including a DOE grants analyst (Marilyn M. Oyler) and a supervisory physicist (Walter M. Polansky).

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