MEEN Research Newsletter
The Research and Strategic Initiatives team puts together a newsletter that goes out each Friday during the Fall and Spring semesters. This is sent to the MEEN faculty and anyone else who requests access. This newsletter provides critical information to maintain and grow the university's research enterprise by sharing a multitude of opportunities for faculty and their students.
We share funding opportunities, events, webinars, professional development opportunities, awards and more. To be added to our list serve, email Taylor Northcut (tnorthcut@tamu.edu).
Latest Email: September 11, 2026
Important Announcements
Funding Opportunities
AFOSAR: Research Interests of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Proposals accepted anytime
NASA: Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES) 2025
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research Development Center BAA
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NSF: Mind, Machine and Motor Nexus (M3X)
Program Director: Alex Leonessa. Alex Leonessa visited MEEN in November of 2023. To listen to his seminar, click here.
DOD: Automated Processes for Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval
Full application deadline: 9/9/2029
DOD: US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Broad Agency Announcement
Full application deadline: 2/27/2030
DOD: Army Applications Lab (AAL) BAA for Disruptive Applications
Full application deadline: 5/4/2029
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DOD: Air Dominance Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)
Full application deadline: 10/31/2029
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DOD: Research and Development (RAD) Directed Energy (RD) University Assistance Instruments
Full application deadline: 7/18/2029
DOD RAD University Assistance Instruments
NIST: Measurement Science and Engineering (MSE) Research Grant Programs
Full application deadline: accepted on a rolling basis
DOD: Continuing Human Enabling, Enhancing, Restoring, and Sustaining (CHEERS)
Full application deadline: open 8/22/2044
NIST: BAA for Proposals to Advance Microelectronics Technologies
Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grants
Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Due 10/4/2026: NIH: Investigator-Focused Award (Parent R35)
Due 10/5/2026: Department of the Army: DoW Peer-Reviewed Cancer, Idea Award
Due 10/5/2026: National Energy Technology Laboratory: Improved Oil and Gas Recovery and Produced Water Management Technologies
Due 10/16/2026: NETL: Annual Recurring University Training and Research
Due 10/19/2026: NIH: Model-to-Clinic (M2C) for Precision Medicine with AI: Integrating Imaging with Multimodal Data (PRIMED-AI) (UG3/UH3, Clinical Trial Optional)
10/19/2026: DARPA Disruption Opportunity: Resilient
Due 10/26/2026: USDA: Assisting Specialty Crop Exports: Low Oxygen Storage and Packaging Systems for U.S. Tree Nuts with Phytosanitary Traceability
Due 10/30/2026: ONR: Young Investigator Program (YIP)
Due 11/2/2026: Research Associateship Programs
Due 11/4/2026: NSF: Unlocking Dataset Value for AI-Enabled Scientific Discovery
Due 11/6/2026: AFOSR/DOW: Fiscal Year 2027 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP)
Due 11/16/2026: NSF: Major Research Instrumentation Program for FY2026
Due 11/16/2026: ONR: FY27 Communications and Networking Applied Research
Due 11/18/2026: CPRIT: Catalyst Pilot Research Award
Due 11/20/2026: DARPA: Information Innovation Office (I2O) Office-Wide
Due 12/2/2026: NSF: Expeditions in Computing
Due 12/16/2026: NASA: Space Technology Early Stage Innovations Opportunities Released
Due 1/1/2027: DOD: ERDC Broad Agency Announcement
Due 1/6/2027: ORAU: Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards
Due 1/9/2027: DOW’s Energy, Installations, and Environment Innovation Partners Programs
Due 1/25/2027: NIH: Limited Competition: High Impact Specialized Innovation Programs in Clinical and Translational Science
Due 2/4/2027: Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards
Due 2/11/2027: NIH: Digital Health Technology and Reciprocal Innovation to Improve Clinical and Public Health Outcomes
Due 3/1/2027: Dr. Scholl Foundation Grant Program
Due 3/31/2027: United States Military Academy BAA
Due 3/31/2027: Kleburg Foundation: Medical Research Grants (Spring Cycle)
Due 3/31/2027: Kleberg Foundation: Wildlife, Conservation and Animal Science Grants (Spring Cycle)
Due 3/21/2027: DOD: Air Delivered Effects
Due 4/30/2027: Welch Foundation: Catalyst for Discovery Program Grants
Due 8/27/2027: DARPA DSO BAA
Due 9/28/2027: NIH: Clinical and Translational Science Award (UM1 Clinical Trial Optional)
Due 5/4/2029: DOD: Army Applications Lab (AAL) BAA for Disruptive Applications
Due 5/8/2029: NIH: Collaborative International Research Project (Parent PF5 Clinical Trial Option)
Due 5/26/2029: NIH: Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) (R25 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Due 6/22/2027: DARPA: Information Processing Techniques Office Office-Wide
Due 9/29/2029: DOE: Seeding Critical Advances for Leading Energy Technologies with Untapped Potential (SCALEUP) Ready
Due 10/31/2029: DOD: Air Dominance Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)
Due 1/13/2030: Naval Supply Systems Command: Research Initiatives at the Naval Postgraduate School
Due 3/31/2030: DOD Staff Research Program
Due 9/30/2034: DOD: Fundamental Research to Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction
Research Databases
On this page, you can view the topics for active or archived Board Agency Announcements (BAAs). You can search by topic number, topic title or keyword and filter by program, component, technology area, modernization priorities, BAA and topic status. You can also view existing Q&A for active BAA topics.
Grants.gov is the single point of access for searching competitive funding opportunities from more than 900 grant programs offered by the 26 federal grant-making agencies.
NSPIRES now allow users to SEARCH for and view Proposals and NOIs due in 30 days, FUTURE, and OPEN, CLOSED/PAST NASA research announcements. The full text of the Solicitation Announcements and information about selected proposals, if available, can be viewed and downloaded.
The National Institutes of Health is the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world. In fiscal year 2022, NIH invested most of its $45 billion appropriations in research seeking to enhance life, and to reduce illness and disability. NIH-funded research has led to breakthroughs and new treatments helping people live longer, healthier lives, and building the research foundation that drives discovery.
The SBIR and STTR programs fund a diverse portfolio of startups and small businesses across technology areas and markets to stimulate technological innovation, meet Federal research and development (R&D) needs, and increase commercialization to transition R&D into impact.