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Innovation Grant Program - Category C: Innovation and Investment Readiness Grants is sponsored by City of Sacramento Office of Innovation and Economic Development. This grant category funds programming that connects established startups and tech businesses to funding opportunities and customers. Programs may focus on technology commercialization, access to capital, or customer acquisition for businesses ready to grow.

2026 Innovation Grant Program - Category A: Entrepreneurship Education and Access Grants is sponsored by City of Sacramento Office of Innovation and Economic Development. This category of the Innovation Grant Program funds standalone or progressive workshops, business training series, or open lab coaching hours that help entrepreneurs develop ideas or strengthen skills, with an emphasis on tech-enabled and scalable businesses.

RFA-LM-26-004 is the National Library of Medicine's institutional training grant competition for predoctoral and postdoctoral programs in biomedical informatics, data science, and artificial intelligence and machine learning. NLM plans roughly 25 awards from a USD 12,000,000 pool, with awards between USD 500,000 and USD 775,000 and applications due 25 September 2026. The RFA covers both brand-new training programs and renewals of existing NLM-funded programs, which materially changes the competitive picture: incumbents with track records of trainee placement are competing in the same pool as new entrants, and new programs need to show institutional depth that renewals can simply document. NLM asks for cutting-edge, forward-looking training experiences that prepare trainees to attack complex health problems with computational methods, and explicitly values interdisciplinary designs that pull together computer science, statistics, clinical and biological perspectives rather than housing training inside a single department. This is one of the largest sustained federal pipelines for AI-in-health workforce development, and because it is a T-series institutional mechanism it is administered by the institution rather than an individual investigator. Estimated award date is 30 January 2027 with projects starting 1 July 2027.

NOTICE: August 4, 2026. Going forward, a $0.09/SBU charge now applies to all proposing to Earth Science (ROSES Appendix A) to use any NASA high-end computing resource. Proposers must account for this in their budget, per the instructions provided in Section 7.3 of ROSES-25 A.1 Earth Science Research Overview. NOTICE: July 28, 2026. A set of slides describing the Application Readiness Levels (ARLs) has been posted under "other documents" on the NSPIRES page for this program element. Text regarding ARLs has been added to a few locations in Section 2 and a row has been added to the Summary Table of Key information in Section 4. New Text is in bold and deleted text is struck through. We anticipate posting a FAQ under "other documents" after the pre-proposal teleconference on August 31, at 1 pm Eastern Time. NOTICE: Amended July 17, 2026. This amendment presents a new program element in ROSES-2025. Proposals are due October 15, 2026. The pre-proposal teleconference will be held on August 31, at 1 pm Eastern Time on a no-advance-reservation, first-to-dial-in basis. Teleconference information will be posted under other documents on the NSPIRES page for this program element approximately 2 weeks after the element release. This new program element solicits a broad range of research and applications including topics from what were previously individual program elements (agriculture, disaster resilience, natural resources, health and air quality, water resources, wildland fire, energy systems, and resilient infrastructure). The S/T/M Section of the anonymized proposals is limited to ten (10) pages, see Section 3.1 of this program element. Proposals submitted to this program will be evaluated using dual-anonymous review. Proposal documents must be prepared according to the guidelines in Section 3.2 and in the associated "Guidelines for Proposers to ROSES DAPR Programs" document under "Other Documents" on the NSPIRES page for this program element. NOTICE: Research security training required starting August 5, 2026. All PIs and any Co-Is that would spend ≥ 10% time on a proposed grants or cooperative agreements must certify they have taken research security training. NASA will be satisfied with the four online research security training modules on the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Research Security Training website at https://www.nsf.gov/research-security/training or the SECURE Center condensed version of the four modules at https://www.secure-center.org/ctm This synopsis is a generic summary that is posted for each of the many individual "program elements" in NASA’s Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) – 2025 solicitation. For specific information on this particular program element download and read the PDF of the text of this program element by going to Tables 2 or 3 of ROSES at https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2025table2 and https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2025table3, respectively, click the title of the program element of interest, a hypertext link will take you to a page for that particular program element. On that page, on the right side under "Announcement Documents" the link on the bottom will be to the PDF of the text of the call for proposals. For example, if one were interested in the Solar System Science program (NNH25ZDA001N-SCUBED) one would follow the link to the NSPIRES page for that program element and then to read the text of the call one would click on “C.2 Solar System Science (.pdf)” to download the text of the call. If one wanted to set it into the context of the goals, objectives and know the default rules for all elements within Appendix C, the planetary science division, one might download and read “C.1 Planetary Science Research Program Overview (.pdf)” from that same page. While the letters and numbers are different for each element within ROSES (A.10, B.3, etc.) the basic configuration is always the same, e.g., the letter indicates the Science Division (A is Earth Science, B is Heliophysics etc.) and whatever the letter, #1 is always the division overview. In 2025, most program elements will be set up for application via Grants.gov only if requested at least 30 days in advance of the due date. For more on Grants.gov submissions see Section IV(b)v of the ROSES Summary of Solicitation, that may be found at https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2025. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (SMD) released its annual omnibus Research Announcement (NRA), Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) – 2025 (OMB Approval Number 2700-0092, CFDA Number 43.001) on February 21, 2025. In this case "omnibus" means that this NRA has many individual program elements, each with its own due dates and topics. All together these cover the wide range of basic and applied supporting research and technology supported by SMD. Awards will be made as grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts depending on the nature of the work proposed. However, most extramural research awards deriving from ROSES will be grants, and many program elements of ROSES specifically exclude contracts, because contracts would not be appropriate for the nature of the work solicited. Funded Co-Is at government labs will receive inter- or intra-agency transfers. The typical period of performance for an award is three years, but some programs may allow up to five years and others specify shorter periods. In most cases, organizations of every type, Government and private, for profit and not-for-profit, domestic and foreign (with some caveats), may submit proposals without restriction on teaming arrangements. Tables listing the program elements and due dates (Tables 2 and 3), a table that provides a very top level summary of proposal contents (Table 1), and the full text of the ROSES-2025 "Summary of Solicitation", may all be found NSPIRES at https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2025. Frequently asked questions for ROSES are posted at http://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/faqs. Questions concerning specific program elements should be directed to the point(s) of contact for that particular element, who may be found either at the end of the individual program element in the summary table of key information or on the web list of topics and points of contact at: http://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/program-officers-list. General questions concerning ROSES-2025 may be directed to the office of the SMD Deputy Associate Administrator for Research at sara@nasa.gov. Not all program elements are known at the time of the release of ROSES. To be informed of new program elements or amendments to this NRA, proposers may subscribe to: (1) The SMD mailing lists (by logging in at http://nspires.nasaprs.com and checking the appropriate boxes under "Account Management" and "Email Subscriptions"), (2) The ROSES-2025 blog feed for amendments, clarifications, and corrections to at https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/solicitations/roses-2025/, and (3) The ROSES-2025 due date Google calendars (one for each science division). Instructions are at https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/library-and-useful-links (link from the words due date calendar). Funding Opportunity Number: NNH25ZDA001N-AES. Assistance Listing: 43.001. Funding Instrument: CA,G. Category: ST.

PLEASE NOTE: this program has MANDATORY Notices of Intent, which are due via NSPIRES by 8/20/2026. See the full posting on NSPIRES for details. NOTICE: August 4, 2026. Going forward, a $0.09/SBU charge now applies to all proposing to Earth Science (ROSES Appendix A) to use any NASA high-end computing resource. Proposers must account for this in their budget, per the instructions provided in Section 7.3 of ROSES-25 A.1 Earth Science Research Overview. NOTICE: July 30, 2026. An erroneous reference in Section 4.1 to was corrected to refer to Section 4.2 regarding Sub-element of relevance. Section 4.3.3 "Use of Generative AI" was added. On the NSPIRES cover page, the NOI Program Specific Data Cover Page Element was updated to include the Rough Budget estimate per year which is required. New text is in bold and deleted text is struck through. NOTICE: Amended July 20, 2026. This amendment adds this new program element to ROSES-2025. Mandatory Notices of Intent are due by August 20, 2026, and proposals are due October 20, 2026. Any proposal not preceded by an on-time NOI will be declined without review. Proposals submitted to this program will be evaluated using dual anonymous peer review, see Section 4.4. Proposers to this program element are strongly encouraged to use the optional Earth Science Division template for the required summary table of work effort of the proposal; templates are available at https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/templates-for-earth-science-division-appendix-a-roses-proposals. NOTICE: Research security training required starting August 5, 2026. All PIs and any Co-Is that would spend ≥ 10% time on a proposed grants or cooperative agreements must certify they have taken research security training. NASA will be satisfied with the four online research security training modules on the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Research Security Training website at https://www.nsf.gov/research-security/training or the SECURE Center condensed version of the four modules at https://www.secure-center.org/ctm This synopsis is a generic summary that is posted for each of the many individual "program elements" in NASA’s Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) – 2025 solicitation. For specific information on this particular program element download and read the PDF of the text of this program element by going to Tables 2 or 3 of ROSES at https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2025table2 and https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2025table3, respectively, click the title of the program element of interest, a hypertext link will take you to a page for that particular program element. On that page, on the right side under "Announcement Documents" the link on the bottom will be to the PDF of the text of the call for proposals. For example, if one were interested in the Solar System Science program (NNH25ZDA001N-SCUBED) one would follow the link to the NSPIRES page for that program element and then to read the text of the call one would click on “C.2 Solar System Science (.pdf)” to download the text of the call. If one wanted to set it into the context of the goals, objectives and know the default rules for all elements within Appendix C, the planetary science division, one might download and read “C.1 Planetary Science Research Program Overview (.pdf)” from that same page. While the letters and numbers are different for each element within ROSES (A.10, B.3, etc.) the basic configuration is always the same, e.g., the letter indicates the Science Division (A is Earth Science, B is Heliophysics etc.) and whatever the letter, #1 is always the division overview. In 2025, most program elements will be set up for application via Grants.gov only if requested at least 30 days in advance of the due date. For more on Grants.gov submissions see Section IV(b)v of the ROSES Summary of Solicitation, that may be found at https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2025. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (SMD) released its annual omnibus Research Announcement (NRA), Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) – 2025 (OMB Approval Number 2700-0092, CFDA Number 43.001) on February 21, 2025. In this case "omnibus" means that this NRA has many individual program elements, each with its own due dates and topics. All together these cover the wide range of basic and applied supporting research and technology supported by SMD. Awards will be made as grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts depending on the nature of the work proposed. However, most extramural research awards deriving from ROSES will be grants, and many program elements of ROSES specifically exclude contracts, because contracts would not be appropriate for the nature of the work solicited. Funded Co-Is at government labs will receive inter- or intra-agency transfers. The typical period of performance for an award is three years, but some programs may allow up to five years and others specify shorter periods. In most cases, organizations of every type, Government and private, for profit and not-for-profit, domestic and foreign (with some caveats), may submit proposals without restriction on teaming arrangements. Tables listing the program elements and due dates (Tables 2 and 3), a table that provides a very top level summary of proposal contents (Table 1), and the full text of the ROSES-2025 "Summary of Solicitation", may all be found NSPIRES at https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2025. Frequently asked questions for ROSES are posted at http://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/faqs. Questions concerning specific program elements should be directed to the point(s) of contact for that particular element, who may be found either at the end of the individual program element in the summary table of key information or on the web list of topics and points of contact at: http://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/program-officers-list. General questions concerning ROSES-2025 may be directed to the office of the SMD Deputy Associate Administrator for Research at sara@nasa.gov. Not all program elements are known at the time of the release of ROSES. To be informed of new program elements or amendments to this NRA, proposers may subscribe to: (1) The SMD mailing lists (by logging in at http://nspires.nasaprs.com and checking the appropriate boxes under "Account Management" and "Email Subscriptions"), (2) The ROSES-2025 blog feed for amendments, clarifications, and corrections to at https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/solicitations/roses-2025/, and (3) The ROSES-2025 due date Google calendars (one for each science division). Instructions are at https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/library-and-useful-links (link from the words due date calendar). Funding Opportunity Number: NNH25ZDA001N-ATMOS. Assistance Listing: 43.001. Funding Instrument: CA,G. Category: ST.