NASA EPSCoR provides seed funding enabling jurisdictions (states) to develop an academic research enterprise directed toward long-term, self-sustaining, nationally-competitive capabilities in aerospace and aerospace-related research. NASA EPSCoR objectives are to: contribute to and promote the development of research infrastructure in EPSCoR jurisdictions in areas of strategic importance to the NASA mission; improve the capabilities of the jurisdictions to gain support from sources outside the NASA EPSCoR program; develop partnerships between NASA research assets, industry, and EPSCoR jurisdictions’ academic institutions; and contribute to the overall research infrastructure, science and technology capabilities, higher education, and/or economic development of the jurisdiction.
NASA offers the following grant awards: Cooperative Agreement Notices (CAN), Rapid Response Research (RRR), International Space Station Flight Opportunities (ISS), and Rsearch Infrastructure Development (RID).
Research Infrastructure Development
WebsiteEPSCoR Research Infrastructure Development awards, or RID. This component enables jurisdictions to build and strengthen relationships with NASA researchers. The RID has a three-year base period of performance with a potential one-year no cost extension. Awards are $125,000 per year. NASA intends to announce the RID opportunity every three to five years, pending funding availability.
- Cyber Security for Decentralized Aero-vehicle Control Systems
- Development for Advanced Fuel Coatings
- Effect of Space Radiation Environment on Emerging Photonic Technologies
- Evaluating localized electrical impedance myography to quantify segmental fluid shifts induced by simulated micro-gravity conditions
- The Next Frontier in Space Exploration – Cubesats: Investigating the combustion characteristics of imidazole-based ionic liquids and HAN bipropellants to enable dual-mode propulsion systems
- Activity of the Most Massive Super-Massive Black Holes
- AL NASA EPSCoR RID FY15 3 Year
- Dielectric Polymer Nanocomposites Based on Novel Two-Dimensional (2D) Transition Metal Carbides
- Influence of High Temperature on Field Emission in Vacuum Nano-Electronics for Space Applications
- Investigation of Microstructure and Mechanical Property Relationship of Inconel 718 Fabricated by Selective Laser Melting Using Combined In-situ Characterization Measurements and Phase Filed Crystal Plasticity Simulations
- Large Eddy Simulations of Complex Turbulent Flows Using Non-Dissipative, Temporally and Spatially High-Order, and High Efficiency Unstructured Grid Flow Solver