OpportunityTitle: Disaster Resilience (DR) Research Grants Program
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: All programs listed in this NOFO are open to all domestic non-Federal entities.  Eligible applicants include institutions of higher education, non-profit organizations, for-profit organizations, state and local governments, Indian tribes, and hospitals.  Please note that, for the purposes of this NOFO, individuals and unincorporated sole proprietors are not considered &#8220;non-Federal entities&#8221; and are not eligible to apply.  In addition, foreign entities are not eligible to apply.
Description: The Disaster Resilience (DR) Research Grants Program seeks applications from eligible applicants to conduct research aimed at advancing the principles of resilience in building design and building codes and standards. Research proposals must support the overall effort of developing science-based building codes by evaluating potential technologies and architectural design criteria to improve disaster resilience in the built environment. Research projects must be aligned with existing NIST Engineering Laboratory (EL) Disaster Resilience programs, as described in Section I. of this NOFO/Full Announcement, and any application that is non-research related (such as developing a product) will be disqualified.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: Agency Contact
GrantorContactText: Leon Sampson &lt;br/&gt;Management and Program Analyst &lt;br/&gt;Phone 301-975-3086