Federal funding opportunities for each TRLPreparation of application for TRL-1 funding:
- Describe the idea, concept, approach
- Explain the significance of your idea, concept, approach
- Identify societal, environmental, or economic needs that will be addressed
- Lay out the proposed research plan, objectives, methods, tasks, controls, and feasibility, risk, and solution measures
- Assemble research team
- Identify milestones and go/no-go criteria
- Describe alternatives if the primary approach does not work out
The first step: Basic ResearchFederal funding opportunities:
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
- National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
- Advanced Technologies: bioenergy, biotechnology, nanotechnology
- Animals: animal breeding, animal health, animal production, aquaculture
- Business and Economics: markets and trade, natural resource economics, small business, StrikeForce
- Education: learning and engagement, minority-serving institutions, workforce development
- Farming and Ranching: agricultural safety, agricultural technology, farmer education, organic agriculture, small and family farms, sustainable agriculture
- Food Science: food quality, food safety
- International: global food security
- Natural Resources: air, forests, grasslands and rangelands, soil, water
- Plants: crop production, pest management, plant breeding, plant health
- U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)
- Defense Advanced Research Projects (DARPA)
DARPA explicitly reaches for transformational change instead of incremental advances. It is looking for promising technologies within science and engineering research communities. These new designs and technologies have to radically improve military capabilities, offering “strategies to surprise our adversaries,” with payoffs for non-military uses afterwards (such as the computer, ceramic bearings, and insulators). The DARPA investment has to fundamentally reshape existing fields or create entirely new disciplines and transform these initiatives into profoundly new, game-changing technologies for U.S. national security and the commercial and private sectors.
- Other DOD grant opportunities
If so, will DOD buy it? If not, you need to look elsewhere for grants.
DOD has set a goal to reduce petroleum use throughout all branches of the military and increase its use of alternative energy sources for all power and fuel consumed by 50 percent within the next five years. Any innovation – at any TRL – that will help DOD meet this goal will be of interest to DOD.
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
- Advanced Research Program Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)
- Office of Science (OS)
Research to prove viabilityNext, TRL-2 invention begins, with federal funding opportunities including:
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
- National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
- U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)
- Defense Advanced Research Projects (DARPA)
- Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx)
- Other DOD grant opportunities
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
- Advanced Research Program Agency – Energy (ARPA-E)
- Office of Science (OS)
- Office of Fossil Energy (FE)
- Office of Energy Delivery and Reliability (OE) and Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER)
planning and market operations. OE accomplishes its mission through research, partnerships, facilitation, modelling, and analytics. Funding interests include research, development, and demonstration of next-generation transformers, distributed energy systems, flexible and adaptable designs for power generation and transmission systems, and grid security and resilience.
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