OpportunityTitle: Community Resilience Center of Excellence Program
CategoryExplanation: Arrangements for Interdisciplinary Research Infrastructure
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Accredited institutions of higher education, non-profit organizations, and commercial organizations that are organized and operated in the United States and its territories.  An eligible organization may work individually or include proposed subawardees, contractors or other collaborators in a project proposal, effectively forming a team or consortium.  An organization may only serve as the lead organization on one proposal.  In a team or consortium structure, eligible subawardees are U.S. non-profit organizations, accredited institutions of higher education, commercial organizations, and State, Tribal, and local governments.  Federal agencies may participate in projects, but may not receive NIST funding.
Description: NIST is soliciting applications to establish a Community Resilience Center of Excellence in which NIST researchers collaborate with interdisciplinary researchers from academia and industry on development of tools and standardized methods that will enhance the disaster resilience of communities and their built environment through innovations in measurement science and in new modeling, simulation, data, and informatics tools coupled with field studies of multiple hazard events.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: Agency Contact
GrantorContactText: Christopher Hunton &lt;br/&gt;Grants Technical Assistant &lt;br/&gt;Phone 301-975-5718