OpportunityTitle: Manufacturing Innovation Institute for Smart Manufacturing: Advanced Sensors, Controls, Platforms, and Modeling for Manufacturing
Description: Modification 0002: The purpose of this modification is to revise the &#8220;Concept Paper Encourage/Discourage Notifications Sent&#8221; date on the cover page from 11/20/15 to 11/24/15. Modification 0001: The purpose of this modification is to revise Section I.B. Background, to include information on the Teaming Partner List. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to establish DOE&apos;s third Manufacturing Innovation Institute under the Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative (CEMI). The purpose of CEMI is to strengthen U.S. clean energy manufacturing competitiveness and to increase U. S. manufacturing competitiveness across the board by boosting energy productivity and leveraging low-cost domestic energy resources as fuels and feedstocks. Within CEMI, DOE uses Manufacturing Innovation Institutes to develop energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies in areas where an industrial consortium for research, development and demonstration has been determined through public engagement, requests for information and analysis to have high potential to address a significant and potentially impactful advanced manufacturing opportunity. The opportunity to be addressed in this FOA is the research, development and demonstration of Smart Manufacturing technology to enable cost effective information and communication technologies for the real-time management and control of energy in manufacturing across the unit-process, facility, enterprise, and supply chain. The full Funding Opportunity Announcement is posted on the EERE Exchange website at https://eere-exchange.energy.gov. Applications must be submitted through the EERE Exchange website to be considered for award. The applicant must first register and create an account on the EERE Exchange website. The Users&apos; guide for applying to Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy&#8217;s Funding Opportunity Announcements through the Exchange website can be found at https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/Manuals.aspx. Information on where to submit questions regarding the content of the announcement and where to submit questions regarding submission of applications is found in the full FOA posted on the EERE Exchange website.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: EERE-ExchangeSupport@hq.doe.gov
GrantorContactText: EERE Exchange &lt;br/&gt;EERE-ExchangeSupport@hq.doe.gov&lt;br/&gt;
CloseDateExplanation: A mandatory Concept Paper is due 11/04/2015 at 5:00pm ET.