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Solicitation NSF 25-527 is archived (last full-proposal date Nov 2025). Recurring NSF program — NSF references successor NSF 25-543; check nsf.gov for the current S&CC/CISE core cycle.
Historical funding: $100,000 - $3,000,000
Prior eligibility: Universities and non-profit, non-academic organizations.
Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC) is sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF). Supports research to integrate technology and sensors (including aquatic drones) into community management to improve environmental and social outcomes.
NSF's TechAccess: AI-Ready America commits up to $224 million to build one AI-readiness coordination hub in every state, DC, and U.S. territory. Round 1 closed July 16, 2026 — but Rounds 2 and 3 are still open, and most states are still up for grabs. Here is how the hub structure works, who is eligible, why cost sharing is banned, and how to position an institution to own its state's hub.
Read articleNSF just put $83 million into six national-scale data systems through its Integrated Data Systems and Services program — the plumbing that makes AI-for-science actually work. Here is who won, how the three-category structure (national-scale, transition, planning) really functions, why the Category III planning grant is the on-ramp most teams should be aiming at, and how to build readiness before the next fourth-Tuesday-in-July deadline.
Read articleNSF's new AI Datasets solicitation puts up to $100 million behind a specific bet: that the bottleneck in AI-for-science is not models but data. Here is how the three award tiers work — Flagship up to $5M, Impact up to $2M, Planning up to $200K — who is eligible, why voluntary cost sharing is banned, and how to build a proposal that survives review before the November 4, 2026 deadline.
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