American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Signed February 17, 2009

Opportunities for Federal R&D funding

Frank CalzonettiDiane MillerOffice of Research Development

Jan Schoonmaker and Keith MorrisonVan Scoyoc Associates

Overview of the Act

$792,000,000,000 To create 3.5 million jobs over

two years Includes:

• Federal Elements• Helping Students and Families• Research Funding• Infrastructure• Job Training

• State Fiscal Relief

Federal R&D Funding

$21.5 billion total federal R&D funding• Conduct of R&D $18,000,000,000• R&D facilities and capital equipment $3,506,000,000

Distribution of Funds by Federal R&D Agencies

NIH: $10.4 billion NSF: $3 billion NASA: $1 billion NIST: $600 million DOD: $300 million DOE $2 billion, + EERE $2.5 billion NOAA $830 million USGS $140 million

Federal R&D Infrastructure

Academic research facilities:• NIH: $1.3 billion

• Construction, repairs, alterations, shared instrumentation, capital equipment

• NSF: $900 million• Facilities construction, major research equipment, academic

research facilities modernization and the Major Research Instrumentation program

• NIST: $180 million• competitive construction grant program for funding science

research facilities

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

National Institutes of Health: $10.4 billion (all available for two years)

Criteria for Spending (According to Acting Director Raynard Kington)– Short-term economic impact of funding (number of

jobs created and preserved)– Long-term investment of funding

NIH Funding Plans• $8.2 billion in support of scientific research priorities

• $7.4 billion the Institutes and Centers and Common Fund (CF) to support cross-cutting, trans-NIH projects, based on a percentage-based formula

• $800 million to the Office of the Director (OD) (not including CF)(For example, support for Challenge Grants), a program designed to focus on health and science problems where progress can be expected in two years.

• To support additional scientific research-related activities that also align with the overall purposes of the Act

• $1 billion to support Extramural Construction, Repairs, and Alterations • Allocated to the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) in support

of all NIH funded research institutions • $300 million Shared Instrumentation and other capital equipment

• Allocated to NCRR to support all NIH activities

• So ~$9.5 billion to colleges and universities

NIH Funding Mechanisms and Process

Choose among recently peer reviewed, highly meritorious R01 who are able to make progress with a 2-year grant

Fund new R01 applications that can make good progress with a 2-year grant

Provide targeted supplements to current grants Jump start the new NIH Challenge Grant program with $100-

$200 million to focus on health and science problems where progress expected in 2-years ($500K/yr for 2-years)

Other mechanisms and processes to be developed and used

NIH: What you need to do

Monitor web sites for institutes in your interest, http://www.hhs.gov/recovery/

Bring information from your contacts to Office of Research Development, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, Provost Gold and Provost Haggett, or the Office of Government Relations

Watch for emails from the Office of Research Development for further opportunities

For those with existing NIH grants develop case for supplementary funding with deliverables within 2-years

Evaluate job creation impacts of existing and proposed projects Prepare for Challenge Grant RFA All projects will be peer reviewed

National Science Foundation (NSF)

National Science Foundation (NSF) $3 billion• $2 billion for research grants

• “research and related activities”• $900 million for infrastructure

• facilities construction, major research equipment, academic research facilities modernization and the Major Research Instrumentation program

• $100 million for education• ‘‘education and human resources’’

NSF: Funding Mechanisms and Process

No supplements to existing grants proposed 24,000 proposals on hand will be considered

for support “Dear Colleague” letter to be distributed soon New solicitations expected for some

programs May consider proposals previously declined

(after 10/1/08) but scientifically meritorious

NSF: What you need to do

Monitor the NSF website and programs in your interest, http://www.nsf.gov/recovery

Watch for new solicitations Bring information from your contacts to Office of

Research Development, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, Provost Gold and Provost Haggett, or the Office of Government Relations

Watch for emails from the Office of Research Development for further opportunities

Department of Energy

$1.6 billion (Office of Science) $400 million (ARPA-E) $ 2.5 billion (EERE)

• including: • $800 million for Biomass • $400 million for Geothermal • $50 million for IT and Communications• $300 million for an Alternative Fueled-Vehicles Pilot Grant

Program http://www.energy.gov/recovery/index.htm

DOE: What you need to do

Monitor the DOE website and programs in your interest, http://www.eere.energy.gov/http://www1.eere.energy.gov/financing/

Watch for new opportunities

Bring information from your contacts to Office of Research Development, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, Provost Gold and Provost Haggett, or the Office of Government Relations

Watch for emails from the Office of Research Development for further opportunities

NASA

$550 million• Science: $400,000,000

• to accelerate the development of the Tier 1 set of Earth Science climate research missions recommended by the National Academies

• Aeronautics: $150,000,000 • to undertake systems-level research, development and

demonstration activities related to aviation safety, environmental impact mitigation, the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen)

http://www.nasa.gov/recovery/index.html

NASA: What you need to do

Monitor the NASA website Watch for new opportunities Contact appropriate program managers Bring information from your contacts to Office of

Research Development, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, Provost Gold and Provost Haggett, or the Office of Government Relations

Watch for emails from the Office of Research Development for further opportunities

NIST

Construction of Research Facilities– $180,000,000 shall be for the competitive

construction grant program for research science buildings, including fiscal year 2008 and 2009 competitions

UT submitted a proposal in summer 2008 for new Chemistry/Environmental Sciences Building

Department of DefenseEnergy Efficiency Technology and ResearchOffices of the Assistant Secretaries for Research, Development and Acquisition

Research, development, test and evaluation projects, including pilot projects, demonstration projects and energy efficient manufacturing enhancements.

Funds are for – improvements in energy generation and efficiency– transmission, regulation, storage and for use on military

installations and within operational forces, to include research and development of energy from

fuel cells wind solar other renewable energy sources to include biofuels and bioenergy

Department of Defense

Funding Level: $300 million • Army: $75,000,000• Navy: $75,000,000• Air Force: $75,000,000• Defense Wide: $75,000,000

http://www.defenselink.mil/recovery/

DOD: What you need to do

Eligible Applicants: Contractors, government laboratories and facilities, universities and nonprofit organizations

• http://www.arl.army.mil/www/default.cfm?Action=29&Page=29• http://www.wpafb.af.mil/AFRL/afosr/• http://www.onr.navy.mil/• http://www.dod.mil/ddre/index.html• http://www.darpa.mil/

Bring information from your contacts to Office of Research Development, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, Provost Gold and Provost Haggett, or the Office of Government Relations

Watch for emails from the Office of Research Development for further opportunities

State Portion

State Stabilization Fund: $53.6 billion• $48.3 billion (population formula)

$39.5 billion to education (K-12 and public colleges) $8.8 billion to Governors

$87 billion for Medicaid

http://www.recovery.ohio.gov/

State: What you needed to do Persons interested in submitting a proposal shall follow the following steps:

1) Complete template and email it to one of six members of the UT senior leadership in order to obtain official authorization label in order for the project to advance: Dr. Lloyd Jacobs, President; Rosemary Haggett, Main Campus Provost; Dr. Jeffrey Gold, Health Science Campus Provost; Scott Scarborough, Senior Vice President Finance; Charles Lehnert, Vice President Facility; and Frank Calzonetti, Vice President Research.  Failure to obtain approval will threaten university support of the project at later stages.

2) Use “The University of Toledo authorizes….” as the beginning words of the narrative description.

3) Fill in all questions on the form as accurately as possible and submit the form to the State of Ohio.

4) Keep a copy of the submission and give an electronic AND hard copy to both the approving administrator and the Office of Government Relations (3510 University Hall, MS 926).

5) Keep the approving administrator and the Office of Government Relations informed of all correspondence from the State.

Consideration1) This is a State form.  It is not a federal form.2) The “job creation” category is very important and should be a realistic number.3) Collaboration is encouraged.  However, a project with collaborators is only submitted by one of

the partners.  If you are a partner but not submitting, inform your approving administrator and UT Government Relations of your participation.

4) Timing is critical. Please submit your abstracts to one of the six members --------------------------- of senior leadership by Wednesday, February 25, 2009.