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TechAccess: AI-Ready America establishes State and Territory Coordination Hubs to help organisations across each state become ready to adopt AI, funded at 1 million US dollars per year for three years with a possible fourth, against total programme funding of 168 to 224 million US dollars and up to 56 awards, one per state, the District of Columbia or territory.
NSF runs it in partnership with the U.S. Department of Labor, USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture and the U.S. Small Business Administration, and that partner list is the most informative feature of the solicitation: it signals that AI adoption by farmers and agricultural small businesses, by workers and by small firms generally is a first-class target rather than an afterthought, and it gives hubs in agricultural states a direct line to USDA-NIFA resources.
The programme has three components. State and Territory Coordination Hubs, the subject of this competition, act as local coordination entities providing AI readiness support through resource navigation, strategic planning, deployment assistance, training coordination and sector-specific engagement.
A National Coordination Lead provides national strategy, hub support, knowledge sharing and deployment network management, funded separately through an Other Transaction Agreement. AI-Ready Catalyst Award competitions, announced separately, will pilot topic-driven approaches for potential national scaling.
Three application rounds are planned: Round 1 letters of intent closed 16 June 2026 with full proposals 16 July 2026; Round 2 letters of intent are due 15 December 2026 with full proposals 15 January 2027; Round 3 letters of intent 1 June 2027 with full proposals 1 July 2027.
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Or search similar grants →According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Eligible proposers are determined by NSF Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide Chapter I.E, which covers institutions of higher education, non-profit organisations and other standard NSF applicant categories. Unaffiliated individuals are explicitly ineligible, and there is a limit of one proposal per institution, so institutions where more than one unit might wish to lead must resolve that internally before the letter of intent. The structural eligibility consideration is geographic exclusivity: up to 56 awards are anticipated, one per state, the District of Columbia or territory, which means applicants are effectively competing to be their state's hub rather than competing nationally on merit alone. A state with two competing proposals is materially weaker than one with a single coordinated bid backed by the state's higher education system, state government, industry associations and workforce agencies, and early coordination with potential in-state rivals is a rational use of preparation time. Because the award is a coordination budget rather than a delivery budget, competitive applications should document partnerships that supply the resources the hub will mobilise, and should engage with the partnering federal agencies' channels: USDA-NIFA for agricultural and rural AI adoption, the Department of Labor for workforce and training, and the Small Business Administration for small firm adoption. Three rounds are available, so an institution not ready for Round 2 can target Round 3 without forfeiting the opportunity, subject to whether its state has already been awarded. Round 2 letters of intent are due 15 December 2026 with full proposals 15 January 2027; Round 3 letters of intent are due 1 June 2027 with full proposals 1 July 2027. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows each State or Territory Coordination Hub is funded at 1 million US dollars per year for three years, with the possibility of one additional year, so the committed award is approximately 3,000,000 US dollars and the maximum with the fourth year is approximately 4,000,000 US dollars; amount_min is recorded as 3,000,000 and amount_max as 4,000,000 US dollars. Total programme funding is 168,000,000 to 224,000,000 US dollars across up to 56 awards, one per state, the District of Columbia, or territory. The award size is the most important thing to understand about this programme, because a million dollars a year is a coordination budget rather than a programme-delivery budget. It will support a small core team, a convening and outreach function, strategic planning and partnership brokering; it will not fund the AI deployments, the training programmes or the technical assistance the hub coordinates. Successful applicants therefore need to arrive with a theory of how the hub mobilises resources it does not control, including those of the partnering federal agencies, state government, industry and philanthropy. The federal partnership structure is the practical answer: the involvement of USDA-NIFA, the Department of Labor and the Small Business Administration means a hub in an agricultural state can plausibly connect farmers and agricultural small businesses to AI adoption resources through channels the hub itself does not fund. The National Coordination Lead is funded separately through an Other Transaction Agreement and is not part of this competition, and the AI-Ready Catalyst Award competitions are announced separately. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
Applications for NSF TechAccess: AI-Ready America (NSF 26-508) State and Territory Coordination Hubs with USDA-NIFA, Department of Labor and SBA Partnership are due December 15, 2026. Build your timeline backwards from this date to cover registrations, approvals, and final submission checks.
NSF TechAccess: AI-Ready America (NSF 26-508) State and Territory Coordination Hubs with USDA-NIFA, Department of Labor and SBA Partnership is funded by U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), in partnership with the U.S. Department of Labor, USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) and the U.S. Small Business Administration. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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The DARPA Surgical Competition (DSC) is a $3.5 million prize challenge run by DARPA's Biological Technologies Office under 10 U.S.C. 4025. Its goal is to advance robotic and AI-enabled surgical systems that can deliver trauma care closer to the point of injury with fewer specialists available. There are two lanes. Lane 1, surgical collaboration, covers robots that assist a surgeon. Lane 2, surgical independence, covers robots performing surgical tasks with increasing autonomy. In each lane, first place wins $1 million, second $400,000, and third $100,000. Component gate prizes are $235,000 for the top Physical Capability Gate performer, $100,000 for the Rapid Learning Gate, and $75,000 for the Medical Knowledge Gate, and teams meeting each gate's minimums receive $3,000 per gate. Up to 10 teams will qualify. The qualification window runs from 11 September 2026 and closes on 13 November 2026 at 4 PM ET, with rolling review. The schedule also includes a virtual second industry day on 4 November 2026, an in-person workshop on 15-24 January 2027, and the scored competition on 20-26 March 2027. Teams are self-funded, and there is no full proposal and no cost share.
NSF's Dear Colleague Letter NSF 26-017 (published March 24, 2026, updated October 27, 2026) invites proposals that use AI and other emerging technologies to strengthen children's online safety and privacy, expand educational opportunities, support well-being, and help educators and parents, including through AI literacy and digital literacy. The DCL has no dedicated budget. Proposals are submitted through participating programs such as NSF FINDERS Foundry (NSF 26-507), which expects about 50 Planning awards of up to $50,000 and about 20 Development awards of up to $300,000 for one year, and TechAccess: AI-Ready America (NSF 26-508). Proposal titles must begin 'Empowering Children to Thrive DCL:'. The next FINDERS Foundry Development proposal deadline is November 18, 2026 at 5 p.m. submitter local time; other deadlines follow the participating solicitations.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Rapid Capabilities Office, working with the Office of Naval Intelligence and Army Contracting Command-Rock Island, is running a One Nation Innovation challenge on the GoColosseum marketplace. The challenge is Tactical ISR Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination (PED): Adaptive AI and Autonomy at the Tactical Edge. It seeks AI and computer vision that detect, track, and re-identify objects in imagery from small unclassified unmanned aerial systems. Systems must keep custody across multiple simultaneous detections and re-identify targets after custody is lost. They must also use low-shot learning that needs minimal labelled data, run at the edge on size-, weight- and power-constrained hardware without the cloud, and integrate with GEOINT formats and the Tactical Assault Kit (TAK). Winning solutions may receive prototype awards under Other Transaction Authority, and the amount and number of awards are not published. The submission window opened on 22 October 2026 and closes on 19 November 2026 at 3:00 PM CST. Applicants must join GoColosseum to apply.
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