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Some Technology Search Opportunities Include:

• Cost-Effective Installation of Small Sensors on Insulated Pipes (due date 8/16/19)
• Overspeed Protection for Turbochargers (due date 9/27/19)

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This is a new funding opportunity to gather information on civic literacy within K-12 education, offered through an interagency partnership between NEH and the Department of Education.

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is partnering with the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to offer a special funding opportunity to bring together educators, national leaders, researchers, and other practitioners to assess how American history, civics, and government are taught in K-12 education.

“As the United States looks toward our 250th anniversary as a nation in 2026, it is critical that all Americans have a full understanding of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship and the democratic principles on which the country was founded,” said NEH Chairman Jon Parrish Peede. “The National Endowment for the Humanities is pleased to partner with the Department of Education to support this effort to gauge national levels of civic literacy and identify ways to improve the teaching and learning of American history and government.”

The two federal agencies have issued a joint request for proposals for a fifteen-month $650,000 cooperative agreement to plan, develop, and implement a series of two national convenings focused on the assessment of the state of civics education and knowledge of American history in K-12 education, publish a report on the findings, and engage in a robust national publicity campaign, including a national forum to be held in Washington, D.C. to launch the report.

The goal of the project would be to highlight innovative approaches, learning strategies, and professional development practices in K-12 civics education, with an emphasis on activities and programs that benefit low-income and underserved populations.

This funding opportunity is offered by the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Division of Education Programs in partnership with the U.S. Department of Education’s American History and Civics Education—National Activities program.

Application information, materials, and guidelines are available at the NEH website. Cooperative agreement proposals must be received by August 12, 2019. Questions about the program should be directed to education@neh.gov.

CDMRP recently released two Requests for Information (RFIs) pertaining to psychological and behavioral health. These RFIs are relevant to the Joint Program Committee-5/Military Operational Medicine Research Program.

RFI for the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Sec 702 Military Sexual Trauma Treatment Pilot. Defense Health Agency (DHA) is exploring options to establish a military-civilian partnership to conduct a pilot program to assess the feasibility and advisability of using intensive outpatient programs (IOP) to treat posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other psychological health conditions associated with sexual trauma. For additional information and to submit a response, please visit: https://www.fbo.gov/index.php?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=f6562d66fdf78aabd8ade82e5cfedf03&tab=core&_cview=0

To advance the President’s vision of a National Roadmap to Empower Veterans and End Suicide, The White House Office of Science Technology and Policy and the VA are developing a National Research Strategy. This RFI solicits input that will ultimately be used to inform the strategy supporting the recent Executive Order on Veteran Suicide Prevention.

Information and responses can be submitted online at https://www.research.va.gov/PREVENTS/

Questions, comments, or RFI submissions should include “RFI Response: National Research Strategy for the President’s Roadmap to Empower Veterans and End the National Tragedy of Suicide (PREVENTS)” in the subject line. Please designate the question(s) you are answering by providing the letter and number of the specific question.

For further information, please contact Traci Lattimore (202-456-4444, RFIresearchresponse@va.gov).

Two recently released Fiscal Year 2019 (FY19) funding opportunities for the Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Medical Research and Development Program (DMRDP) are being managed by the office of Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP).

• Joint Program Committee-8/Clinical and Rehabilitative Medicine Research Program – Restoring Warfighters with Neuromusculosketal Injuries Research Award (RESTORE)
• Joint Program Committee-5/Military and Operational Medicine Research Program – Prevention Research to Reduce Sexual Assault and/or Understand Adjustment Disorders Investigator-Initiated Focused Research Award (PSAAD-IIFRA)

Detailed descriptions of the funding opportunity, evaluation criteria, and submission requirements can be found in the Program Announcements. The Program Announcements are available electronically for downloading from the Grants.gov website (http://www.grants.gov), the CDMRP website (https://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/prgdefault) and the electronic Biomedical Research Application Portal (eBRAP) (https://eBRAP.org).

All CDMRP funding opportunities, both recently and previously released, are available on the CDMRP website (https://cdmrp.army.mil/ ).

Subsequent notifications will be sent when additional funding opportunities are released. A listing of all open CDMRP funding opportunities can be obtained on the Grants.gov website by performing a basic search using CFDA Number 12.420.

Submission is a two-step process requiring both pre-application submission and full application submission. All pre-applications must be submitted through eBRAP (https://eBRAP.org ). Full applications from extramural organizations (non-DoD organizations) must be submitted through Grants.gov (http://www.grants.gov). Intramural DoD organizations may submit full applications to either eBRAP or Grants.gov. Refer to the General Application Instructions, Section II.A. for registration and submission requirements for all applicants. Refer to the General Application Instructions Section III for Application Submission through Grants.gov, and Section IV for application submission through eBRAP. For detailed information on the submission process, refer to Section II.D. of the Program Announcement/Funding Opportunity.

BCC Research is excited to announce an upcoming webinar being hosted by Robert Bectel, Senior Program Analyst at the US Department of Energy, Office of Technology Transitions on July 24, 2019.

You can register for the webinar by clicking this link, and please feel free to share the information pasted below: https://www.bccresearch.com/aboutus/upcoming-events