1. Funding Opportunities Available

2. Some upcoming Funding Opportunities Funding Opportunity Number Opportunity TitleAgencyOpen Date ↓Close Date BJA-2015-4158 BJA FY 15 Economic, Cyber, and High-Tech Crimes National Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Program Bureau of Justice Assistance04/01/201505/18/2015 DARPA-BAA-14-39Information Innovation Office (I2O) Office-Wide DARPA - Information Innovation Office 07/15/201407/15/2015 IARPA-BAA-15-04 Cybersecurity, cyber-event forecasting, cyber- actor behavior and cultural understanding, threat intelligence, threat modeling, cyber-event coding, cyber-kinetic event detection Advanced Research Projects Activity01/15/201501/14/2016 DE-FOA-0001252 Academic Collaboration for Cybersecurity of Energy Delivery Systems Research and Development for the Energy Sector National Energy Technology Laboratory 03/09/201505/12/2015 PD-13-7607Energy, Power, Control and NetworksNational Science Foundation08/15/201211/02/2015 NSF-14-599Secure and Trustworthy CyberspaceNational Science Foundation08/13/201409/21/2015 BAA-RQKHB-2015-0003HUMAN PERFORMANCE SENSINGAir Force -- Research Lab10/29/201410/29/2018 W911NF-13-R-0006 Defense Forensics and Biometrics Agency (DFBA) BAA for Basic, Applied Dept of the Army -- Materiel Command 07/15/201306/30/2015 PD-12-8084 Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering National Science Foundation07/17/201209/30/2015 HM0210-14-BAA-0001National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Academic Research Program National Geospatial Intelligence Agency 04/22/201409/30/2017

3. DARPA BAA 14-39 Opportunity Title : Information Innovation Office Deadline: 15 July 2015 Topics Solicited: Human Environment, Proclivities and Behavior Modeling for Cyber-Security Departments : Environmental, Psychology, Computer Science

4. IARPA BAA 15-03 Opportunity Title : Office of Safe and Secure Operations Deadline: NA Topics Solicited: Approaches to operating securely with imperfect equipment, error-prone users, compromised components, and/or within an environment of unknown trustworthiness Departments : CSE

5. IARPA BAA 15-04 Opportunity Title : Office of Anticipating Surprises Deadline: NA Topics Solicited: Methods for assessing capability and intent to leverage cyber capabilities against U.S. critical infrastructure Departments : CSE, EE, Transportation and Math

6. NSF PD-13-7607 Opportunity Title : Office of Sage and Secure Operations Deadline: NA Topics Solicited: Monitoring, Protection and Cyber Security of Power Grid Departments : CSE and EE

7. USAF BAA-RQKHB-2015-003 Opportunity Title : Human Performance Sensing Deadline: NA Topics Solicited: Sensors - Medical, Behavioral Departments : CSE, EE and Health Science Notes : Pre-Solicitation Anticipated Funding: $45.0M

8. NSF PD-12-8084 Opportunity Title : Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDS&E) Deadline: Topics Solicited: Sensors - Mathematical Modeling Departments : CSE, Math, IIS, EE SmallSept. 9 – Sept. 16 MediumSept. 18 – Sept. 24 BigNov. 04 – Nov. 24

9. NSGIA HM0210-14 BAA 0001 Opportunity Title : National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Academic Research Program Deadline: 30-Sep-17 Topics Solicited: Geo - Analysis and Data Departments : Geography? Funding: $7.2M

10. NSF BAA 15-572 Opportunity Title : Computer and Network Systems (CNS): Core Programs TopicsDepartments Embedded Systems Research (ESR) Sensors, Control Systems for Power Grids, Aviation, Engineered systems for Medical Purposes (Hearing Aids etc.,) Intelligent Systems, Computer Science Cloud Computing (CC) Economics of Data centers, Modeling and Networks CSE, Economics, Business Extensible Distributed Systems (EDS) Intelligent Transport systems, smart technologies Transport, CSE

11. NSF BAA 15-575 Opportunity Title : Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) Deadline TopicsDepartments Trustworthy Computing – (TWC)Engineering Social Economic and Behavorial (SBE) Psychology, Business and Engineering Transition to Practice (TTP)Engineering

12. NSF BAA 15-569 Opportunity Title : Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Deadline: NA Topics Solicited: Big Data Departments : Wide Range from Education to transport Notes: In two or more phases. First phase is governance but second is about research Amount Available: $6.0 M to $7.0 M Amount Ceiling : $175,000 for 24 months

13. SPAWAR N66001-15-R-0096 Opportunity Title : Cyberspace Science, Research, Engineering, and Technology Integration Deadline: 15-Jan-16 Topics Solicited: Security Engineering/cyber security Notes: Pre-Solicitation

14. Some Key Points for writing a successful proposal Extensive literature review (published articles, patents, funded projects)- reviewers search online to check for similar works Preliminary research is essential (a project preparation requires 4-6 months team commitment) Proposal format (requirements and guidelines) Need to highlight Novelty, and commercialization aspects Broader impact (educational, result dissemination, minority and diversity)- short term and long term Detailed tasks, milestones and deliverables Investigators and team composition expertise and Senior Personnel Time commitments (existing projects, time commitment) For some agencies, it may be useful to talk to the PM on the proposed topic, also participate in industry day, pre-proposal, etc.