Advanced Materials for Extreme Environments

Advanced Materials for Extreme Environments is sponsored by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). NASA supports materials R&D for high-altitude and space-like environments, relevant to durable envelopes and structures for hydrogen aerostats. This program should be reviewed carefully against your organization's mission, staffing capacity, timeline, and compliance readiness before you commit resources to a full application. Strong submissions usually translate sponsor priorities into concrete objectives, clear implementation milestones, and measurable public benefit.

For planning purposes, treat rolling deadlines or periodic funding windows as your working submission target unless the sponsor publishes an updated notice. A competitive project plan should include a documented need statement, implementation approach, evaluation framework, risk controls, and a realistic budget narrative. Even when a grant allows broad program design, reviewers still expect credible evidence that the proposed work can be executed within the grant period and with appropriate accountability.

Current published award information indicates $200,000 - $1,500,000 Organizations should verify the final funding range, matching requirements, and allowability rules directly in the official opportunity materials before preparing a budget. Finance and program teams should align early so direct costs, indirect costs, staffing assumptions, procurement timelines, and reporting obligations all remain consistent throughout drafting and post-award administration.

Eligibility guidance for this opportunity is: Nonprofits, universities, industry If your organization has partnerships, subrecipients, or collaborators, define responsibilities and compliance ownership before submission. Reviewers often look for implementation credibility, so letters of commitment, prior performance evidence, and a clear governance model can materially strengthen the application narrative and reduce concerns about delivery risk.

A practical approach is to begin with a focused readiness review, then build a workback schedule from the sponsor deadline. Confirm required attachments, registration dependencies, and internal approval checkpoints early. This reduces last-minute issues and improves submission quality. For the most accurate requirements, always rely on the official notice and primary source links associated with Advanced Materials for Extreme Environments.

Science Mission Directorate 43. 001 Purpose: NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) seeks new knowledge and understanding of our planet Earth, our Sun and solar system, and the universe. SMD and the Nation’s science community use space observatories to conduct sci - entific studies of Earth from space to visit and return samples from other bodies in the solar system, and to peer out into our galaxy and beyond.

SMD is NASA’s largest grant-issuing Recipient: Stormcenter Communications LLC Description: Engaging the wildfire community and decision makers with improved trust data integration and interoperability through real-time synchronous cross-platform sharing. Recipient: University of Oregon Description: Conducting a study of snow evolution over Space Technology Mission Directorate 43.

012 Purpose: The Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) develops transformative space technologies to enable future missions. STMD makes space tech available to commercial companies to generate real-world benefits—everything from creating jobs to saving lives. Description: Plasma jet printing technology for in-space manufacturing and in situ resource utilization.

# GRANTS PROGRAMS AND RESOURCES ## NASA Grants Policy and Compliance Recipient: Trans Astronautica Corporation Description: Development of large space habitats with ample green space and robust agricultural systems. Office of STEM Engagement 43.

008 Purpose: NASA STEM [science, technology, engineering, and mathematics] Engagement delivers tools for students and educators to learn and succeed by creating unique opportuni - ties for a diverse set of students to contribute to NASA’s work in exploration and discovery; building a diverse future STEM workforce by engaging students in authentic learning experi - ences with NASA’s people, content, and facilities; and attracting diverse groups of students to STEM through learning oppor - tunities that spark interest and provide connections to NASA’s Recipient: University of Arizona Description: Advancing site preparation excavation and mining technologies in support of future lunar missions.

Recipient: Alabama A&M University Description: To design, create, and provide workshops, sustainable training materials, and support to minority-serving institutions (MSIs) as a means of enabling competitive advantage in securing Federal funds for MSIs to yield improvements in NASA leads the Nation on a great journey of discovery, seeking new knowledge and understanding of our planet Earth, our Sun and solar system, and the universe out to its farthest reaches and back to its earliest moments of existence.

## NASA MISSION DIRECTORATES AND GRANT-ISSUING PROGRAMS 1 continued GRANTS PROGRAMS AND RESOURCES NASA Grants Policy and Compliance Space Operations Mission Directorate 43. 007 Purpose: The Space Operations Mission Directorate (SOMD) provides the Agency with leadership and management of NASA space operations related to human exploration in and beyond low-Earth orbit (LEO).

SOMD manages current and future space operations, including for the International Space Station (ISS), currently in LEO with a crew of six, and commercial launch services to the ISS; it also performs broad scientific research on orbit. Exploration activities beyond LEO include the manage - ment of Commercial Space Transportation, Exploration Systems Operations, Human Space Flight, Capabilities, and Advanced Exploration Systems.

SOMD is also responsible for Agency leadership and management of the space transportation services of NASA and NASA-sponsored payloads that require orbital launch, as well as the Agency’s space communications and navigation services in support of both human and robotic Recipient: Wake Forest University Description: This project will study the risk of damaging both the hip and knee joints because of exposure to weightlessness during long space flights.

Recipient: Regents of the University of California Description: This study will determine the flammability of several thin solid materials and help verify and improve the predictive capabilities of material flammability models.

Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate Purpose: The Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate (ESDMD) defines and manages systems develop - ment for programs critical to NASA’s Artemis program and plan - ning for NASA’s Moon-to-exploration approach in an integrated manner. ESDMD manages the human exploration system development for lunar orbital, lunar surface, and Mars explora - tion.

ESDMD leads the human aspects of the Artemis activities as well as the integration of science into the human system elements. ESDMD is also responsible for the development of the lunar and Mars architectures. Recipient: Florida Maxima Corporation Description: Psychosocial dynamics within the context of space flight have been shown to have a large impact on crew dynamics and well-being.

As NASA moves towards longer-du - ration exploration missions, the isolation and confinement may foster a blurring of work and social factors.

The increased social support provided by crewmembers, along with increased social interdependence, has the potential to cause differential levels of interpersonal and/or intimate relationships among subsets of Recipient: Sierra Nevada Corporation Description: Develop and assess concepts for variable plant- spacing systems that will work with soilless, microgravity- independent nutrient delivery and recovery technologies.

As part of the NextSTEP Hybrid Life Support System project, Sierra Nevada Corp. is using a manual transplanting nursery system in our Astro Garden prototype. A variable plant-spacing mecha - nism has the potential to multiply the productivity of the current Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate 43.

002 Purpose: Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) scientists, engineers, programmers, test pilots, facilities manag - ers, and strategic planners are focused on aviation’s future. They design, develop, and test advanced technologies that will make aviation much more environmentally friendly, maintain safety in more crowded skies, and ultimately transform the way we fly.

Recipient: Boeing Corporation Description: Advanced capabilities planned for the next generation of autonomous and increasingly autonomous air vehicles will include nontraditional components based on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and complex optimization Recipient: Spirit Aerosystems, Inc.

Description: The project will develop mature, affordable, high- rate composite manufacturing and assembly technologies, with reduced equipment and tooling costs. 2 continued All NASA recipients must be registered in SAM. gov (https://sam.

gov/ ): Registration Process in SAM. gov: User Perspective ## RESOURCES FOR APPLYING FOR NASA GRANTS: NASA Notices of Funding Opportunity (NOFOs) are published in the NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System (NSPIRES): https://nspires. nasaprs.

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# GRANTS PROGRAMS AND RESOURCES NASA Grants Policy and Compliance RESOURCES AVAILABLE ON THE GPC WEBSITE Grant and Cooperative Agreement Manual (GCAM): NASA’s GCAM provides policy guidance to NASA Grant Officers, Technical Officers, Program Managers, and all other award-management-related personnel to implement Government-wide and NASA-specific regulations for awarding and administering grants and cooperative agreements with educational and nonprofit organizations; state, local, and Indian tribal governments; and for-profit organizations.

NASA Grant and Cooperative Agreement Terms This document outlines both the general and specific terms and conditions and applies to all NASA awards issued under 2CFR 1800 (NASA’s adoption of 2CFR 200). For questions about how to apply for NASA awards, please contact NASA Grant Policy and Compliance at HQ-DL-Grants- Policy-Compliance@mail. nasa.

gov . ## MINORITY SERVING INSTITUTIONS (MSI) EXCHANGE The Minority Serving Institutions Exchange (www. nasa.

gov) is a tool that supports the search for innovative and diverse aca - demic collaborators by curating STEM offerings and capability statements of MSIs Nationwide. The MSI Exchange can inform partnerships for teaming opportunities and competitive Federal awards such as contracts, cooperative agreements, and grants.

The user-friendly interface and mobile-responsive design makes the MSI Exchange the ideal search tool for these groups: • Researchers, scientists, engineers, and innovators seeking diverse academic collaborators with capabilities that can be leveraged in mission work.

Helps NASA researchers seeking partners for mission-focused research through Cooperative Agreement Notices (CANs), Space Act Agreements (SAAs), or Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business • Higher-education faculty seeking diverse research collaborators for competitive awards.

will receive occasional updates from the Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) about training, events, funding, and student opportunities, as well as other ways Institutions Exchange (www. nasa. gov) .

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list=PLiuUQ9asub3RBxyZxDrKF57bIqxHGPtPh . NASA Grant and Cooperative NASA Grants and Cooperative Agreement Terms and Conditions # GRANTS PROGRAMS AND RESOURCES NASA Grants Policy and Compliance