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ATE is the largest federal program aimed squarely at educating technicians for high-technology fields, and the FY2026 competition is the practical vehicle for community colleges building artificial intelligence technician pathways.
The solicitation is explicit that emerging areas such as artificial intelligence and quantum information sciences are expected to be supported as industry defines its needs for skilled technical workers, which means an AI technician program - data annotation and pipeline work, model deployment and MLOps support, AI-enabled maintenance and inspection, prompt and agent operations - is squarely fundable rather than a stretch.
The defining structural requirement, and the one that most often derails outside applicants, is that faculty from two-year institutions of higher education must hold significant leadership roles on all projects. A university or nonprofit can participate, but the community college has to lead in substance, not on paper.
The second requirement is a genuine industry partnership: ATE exists to align curriculum with employer demand, and proposals without documented employer commitments to advisory boards, work-based learning placements or hiring do not compete.
Four tracks accommodate very different scales, from Track 1 small-scale projects at up to USD 475,000 through Track 4 ATE Centers at up to USD 7,500,000 over five years, and the program encourages proposals from Minority Serving Institutions and work that supports recruitment, retention and completion of diverse talent in associate-degree technician programs.
The FY2026 full proposal deadline is 1 October 2026 by 5:00 PM submitter local time, with the deadline recurring on the first Thursday in October annually thereafter.
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Or search similar grants →According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Eligible applicants are two- and four-year accredited institutions of higher education, non-profit organizations, for-profit organizations, state and local governments, and Tribal Nations. A defining requirement is that faculty from two-year institutions of higher education must hold significant leadership roles on all projects - the program is built around associate-degree technician education and community college leadership is not optional. Projects must involve partnerships between academic institutions, industry and economic development agencies to promote improvement in the education of science and engineering technicians at the undergraduate and secondary school levels. The program supports curriculum development, professional development for educators, career pathways, applied research on technician education, and business and entrepreneurial skills, and expects that emerging areas such as artificial intelligence and quantum information sciences will be supported as industry defines its needs for skilled technical workers. The program encourages proposals from Minority Serving Institutions and supports recruitment, retention and completion of diverse talent in STEM technician programs. Tracks and ceilings: Track 1 Small Scale Projects up to USD 475,000 over three years; Track 2 ATE Projects up to USD 1,000,000 over three years; Track 3 Consortia up to USD 1,200,000 for two institutions or USD 3,000,000 for three or more over three to four years; Track 4 ATE Centers up to USD 7,500,000 over five years. Approximately USD 74,000,000 was available for new and continuing awards in FY2025, with 45 to 80 new awards anticipated. The 2026 full proposal deadline is 1 October 2026 at 5:00 PM submitting organization local time, recurring the first Thursday in October annually. Verify the currently governing solicitation number and deadline on the NSF ATE program page before submitting. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows award ceilings are set by track: Track 1 Small Scale Projects up to USD 475,000 over three years; Track 2 ATE Projects up to USD 1,000,000 over three years; Track 3 Consortia up to USD 1,200,000 for two institutions or USD 3,000,000 for three or more, over three to four years; and Track 4 ATE Centers up to USD 7,500,000 over five years. amount_min is set to 475,000 (the smallest track ceiling) and amount_max to 7,500,000 (the Centers ceiling). Approximately USD 74,000,000 was available for new and continuing awards in FY2025, with 45 to 80 new awards anticipated annually. Note that a two-year institution of higher education must hold a significant leadership role on every project, which shapes who can realistically request the larger figures. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
Applications for NSF Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Program (NSF 24-584) for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging-Technology Technician Education are due October 1, 2026. Build your timeline backwards from this date to cover registrations, approvals, and final submission checks.
NSF Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Program (NSF 24-584) for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging-Technology Technician Education is funded by U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), Directorate for STEM Education (EDU). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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NSF 25-545 is the Directorate for STEM Education's consolidated K-12 research program, and its distinguishing feature for 2026 is that artificial intelligence has been written into the core framing rather than bolted on. The solicitation states that the program seeks proposals that explore how AI and other emerging technologies can be effectively leveraged to study and enhance STEM teaching and learning, and it references Executive Order 14277 on advancing AI education for American youth, with an emphasis on preparing citizens for a digital society through early learning and exposure to AI. In practice this opens two distinct lanes: AI as an object of study, meaning AI literacy curricula, computational thinking and how students reason about machine systems; and AI as an instrument, meaning intelligent tutoring, adaptive assessment, automated feedback, teacher-facing analytics and AI-supported professional development. Both are in scope, and the strongest proposals tend to be explicit about which one they are doing. Proposals may address learning or instruction in any STEM field and may operate in formal pre-K through 12 settings or in informal learning environments, which makes museums, after-school programs and out-of-school providers legitimate leads rather than junior partners. The structural advantage here is the submission model: proposals are accepted anytime on a rolling basis rather than against a hard annual deadline, which removes the usual scramble and lets a team submit when the partnership and pilot data are actually ready. Eligibility is broad, covering two- and four-year institutions of higher education including community colleges, non-profit non-academic organizations, for-profit U.S.-based organizations, state and local governments, and federally recognized Tribal Nations, with no limit on the number of proposals per organization or on PI participation.
NSF STEM K-12 is sponsored by U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), Directorate for STEM Education (EDU), Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL). The NSF STEM K-12 program supports fundamental, applied, and translational research that advances STEM teaching and learning and improves understanding of education across the human lifespan and a range of formal and informal settings, leveraging AI and emerging technologies to …
The Department of Defense FY2026 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) provides funding for U.S. universities to acquire research equipment and instrumentation in areas important to national defense, including AI and machine learning hardware. The program is administered jointly by the Army Research Office (ARO), Office of Naval Research (ONR), and Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), with approximately $34 million available and 95 awards anticipated. DURIP funds the acquisition of specialized computing hardware for AI/ML research (GPU clusters, TPUs, neuromorphic processors), robotics and autonomous systems testbeds, sensor arrays and data collection systems for machine learning training, high-performance computing infrastructure for defense-relevant AI research, and laboratory equipment for human-AI interaction studies. The program specifically supports equipment that enhances research-related education in DoD-priority disciplines. While general-purpose computing is not eligible, computing equipment directly supporting DoD-relevant AI research programs qualifies. No cost sharing is required.
Vinnova, Sweden's national innovation agency, funds projects developing applied AI solutions for Swedish industry through its Advanced Digitalization Programme. Each project can apply for between 2 and 10 million SEK (approximately $190,000 to $950,000 USD) covering up to 50% of eligible project costs. The total call budget is 60 million SEK. Projects run for 12-24 months and focus on two key areas: Intelligent Edge (AI for real-time application in the sensor chain) and AI-based decision support. All projects must address industrial needs and integrate gender equality and climate change perspectives. Scientific publications must be open access. A parallel call also funds AI and cybersecurity projects at 1-10 million SEK per project with a 50 million SEK total budget.
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