Deadline: 21-Jun-23
S&T seeks to support foundational research that contributes to advancing the state of the science through novel, nuanced, innovative and rigorous scientific inquiry using diverse and non-traditional strategies.
This notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) aims to:
- Conduct basic and applied research to improve their understanding of how and why individuals radicalize to violence, mobilize to violence, and disengage from violence using diverse and non-traditional research strategies from a multi-disciplinary perspective.
- Understand the efficacy of non-government, online interventions to prevent, deter, or otherwise mitigate negative outcomes and harms related to online behaviors as they are related to Homeland Security missions. Please note that any activities conducted for research purposes must include an independent and objective evaluation component to understand outcomes and, if possible, impacts of interventions that are measurable and repeatable.
- Ensure key stakeholders such as federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial partners, community-based organizations, violence prevention practitioners, and members of the public have the knowledge and tools required to support the implementation of effective prevention and intervention programming.
This NOFO will prioritize investigations of historical terrorist and targeted violence acts, events, and movements that occur within the United States and its territories, or that targets its citizens specifically. The focus of this NOFO is to advance the understanding of behaviors and motivations to engage in terrorist or targeted violence activities, to inform greater understanding and provide situational awareness regarding terrorist movements, and to inform the creation of prevention, diversion, and rehabilitation strategies for those involved. Proposals focused on traditional counter terrorism or state-sponsored adversarial behaviors will not be prioritized. Proposals that seek to predict future patterns of behavior or threats will not be prioritized.
Priorities
- Research to Understand Trends, Nature, Causes, and Correlates in Terrorism and Targeted Violence in the United States.
- Research on the Implementation of Evidence-Based and Best Practices in Terrorism Prevention and Intervention Research
- Research Applying Computational Social Science to Homeland Security Needs
- Analysis of Online Intervention Programs
Funding Information
- Target award amount for each Priority is listed. These amounts are not a minimum or maximum award, but if the applicant requests an amount that significantly deviates from the target award amount for each Priority, DHS will require the applicant to include a detailed justification
- Period of Performance: 24 months. Extensions to the period of performance are allowed. For additional information, please refer to Section H of this NOFO.
- Priority – $3,513,943
- Priority – $2,000,000
- Priority – $2,000,000
- Priority – $2,000,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Nonprofit with 501C3 IRS Status (Other than Institution of Higher Education)
- Nonprofit without 501C3 IRS Status (Other than Institution of Higher Education)
- Private Institution of Higher Education
- Public Institution of Higher Education
- For-Profit Organization (Other than Small Business)
- Small Business
- Hispanic-serving Institution
- Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
- Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs)
- Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions
- Non-domestic (non-US) Entity
- To be eligible for this program, must meet the below requirements:
- Applicants must not be a government organization.
- National laboratory employees may participate in planning, conducting, and analyzing the activities directed by the applicant, but may not direct projects on behalf of the applicant organization.
- The standards organization may provide funds through its assistance agreement with DHS to an FFRDC for project-specific, non-federal research personnel, supplies, equipment, facilities, data, and other expenses directly related to activities under this cooperative agreement.
- Federal agencies may not apply. Federal employees are not eligible to serve in a principal leadership role on a grant or cooperative agreement and may not receive salaries or in other ways augment their agency’s appropriations through awards made by this program.
- Nonetheless, federal employees may interact substantively with recipients in the form of cooperation.
- Cooperation involves consulting on the planning, management, and coordination of standards organization and/or information sharing and analysis organization activities, sharing or comparing information, indicators, samples, equipment, facilities, data, models, or other support during the conduct of the standards development and related activities in which the interaction is substantial and requires the award of a cooperative agreement, rather than a grant.
- Substantial involvement occurs when the collaboration or cooperation of a federal employee or facility is necessary to achieving the overall goals of the activities supported by this cooperative agreement.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.