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Expeditions in Computing (Expeditions) | NSF - U.S. National Science Foundation Expeditions in Computing (Expeditions) Important information for proposers and award recipients All proposals must be submitted in accordance with the requirements specified in the funding opportunity and in the Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) and its supplements .
All NSF grants and cooperative agreements are subject to the applicable set of NSF award terms and conditions . NSF has updated its research security policies for NSF funded projects. Supports large, multidisciplinary teams pursuing ambitious, long-term foundational research to drive transformative advances in computing, information science and engineering.
Supports large, multidisciplinary teams pursuing ambitious, long-term foundational research to drive transformative advances in computing, information science and engineering. The far-reaching impact and rate of innovation in the computer and information science and engineering fields has been remarkable, generating economic prosperity, and enhancing the quality of life for people.
More than a decade ago, the NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (NSF CISE) established the NSF Expeditions program to provide the NSF CISE research community with the opportunity to pursue ambitious, foundational research agendas that promise to define the future of computing and information.
Investigators are strongly encouraged to come together within or across departments or institutions to identify compelling, transformative research agendas that look ahead by at least a decade and promise disruptive innovations in computer and information science and engineering for the years ahead.
Expeditions may advance a range of areas including, but not limited to, fundamentally new architectures for intelligence and the hardware and compute substrates that make them possible; rigorous physical and mathematical theories of how systems learn, generalize, and can be interpreted; neuroscience-inspired approaches to learning, memory, reasoning, and behavioral steering; intelligence embodied in the physical world through general physical intelligence, advanced robotics hardware, and novel architectures and learning paradigms for embodied systems; transformative approaches to next generation communication and networking; and high-risk, high-reward areas that no single discipline could pursue alone.
Now funded at levels up to $15,000,000 over seven years, NSF Expeditions projects represent some of the largest single investments made by the CISE Directorate. These awards are designed to promote the formation of large, multidisciplinary research teams to address transformative foundational computing research problems.
This reflects CISE’s recognition that achieving deep and lasting breakthroughs often require advances in multiple fields or sub-fields. Awards made through this program will complement research areas supported by other CISE programs.
The program responds to core recommendations in the Administration’s Fiscal Year 2028 Research and Development Budget Priorities Memorandum that calls for foundational research in the physical sciences and engineering, including computer science.
NSF Expeditions also supports longer grant durations for transformative research, giving scientists the time and autonomy to pursue bold, ambitious projects whose most important results may take years to emerge.
Expeditions Program Officers Additional program resources Expedition Awards Project Webpages Press Release for FY 22 Awards Press Release for FY 20 Awards Press Release for FY 18 Awards Press Release for FY 16 Awards Press Release for FY 13 Awards Press Release for FY 12 Awards Press Release for FY 10 Awards Press Release for FY 09 Awards Press Release for FY 08 Awards NSF Expeditions in Computing PI Meeting: 14 to 16 May 2013 Awards made through this program Browse projects funded by this program Map of recent awards made through this program Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)
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Applications for Expeditions in Computing (Expeditions) are due December 2, 2026. Build your timeline backwards from this date to cover registrations, approvals, and final submission checks.
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