Official funding announcement — preliminary draft
Funder: Caleb Schuler Grantor
Opportunity number: NNH25ZDA001N-BIOS
Official listed status: posted
Closing information: 2026-11-06 (official deadline clock time and time zone must be checked in NOFO)
Award disclosure: Applicant-level ceiling not stated in the retrieved federal synopsis; verify in full NOFO.
Applicant categories in federal synopsis: Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Federal synopsis
The close date above is the date for the Step-2 proposal due date. The Step-1 proposal due date is September 4, 2026. Step-2 proposals cannot be submitted if a Step-1 proposal was not submitted. NOTICE: October 8, 2026. A requirement to budget for travel to an annual PI meeting to the furthest coast has been added to Section 4.2.1. New text is in bold. NOTICE: September 18, 2026. Details on the redacted and anonymized budget requirements have been added to Table A.15-1 to make it consistent with Section 4.2.1, and the instructions regarding BioSketches and Current and Pending Support in Table A.15-2 have been improved. New text is in bold and deleted text is struck through NOTICE: August 4, 2026. Going forward, a $0.09/SBU charge now applies to all proposing to Earth Science (ROSES Appendix A) to use any NASA high-end computing resource. Proposers must account for this in their budget, per the instructions provided in Section 7.3 of ROSES-25 A.1 Earth Science Research Overview. NOTICE: Amended July 20, 2026. This amendment adds this new program element to ROSES-2025. This element uses a two-step proposal process (Section 4). Step-1 proposals are due by September 4, 2026, and Step-2 proposals are due November 6, 2026. Any proposal not preceded by an on-time compliant Step-1 proposal will be returned without review. The page limit for the S/T/M section of Step-2 proposals is …
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