NSF 26-524: Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI): Wave-Based Computing (WBC) (EFRI-WBC)

Program Solicitation NSF 26-524

U.S. National Science Foundation Directorate for Engineering      Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities      Engineering Education and Centers      Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences      Division of Mathematical Sciences Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships      Translational Impacts

Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. submitting organization's local time):

     February 11, 2027

     February 10, 2028

Important Information and Revision Notes

Each prospective Principal Investigator (PI) interested in submitting a proposal to the EFRI Wave-Based Computing solicitation must submit a Concept Outline via email to EFRI2027-2028@nsf.gov by November 19, 2026 for proposal submission for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 cycle or by November 16, 2027 for proposal submission for the FY 2028 cycle. Refer to Section V. Proposal Preparation and Submission Instructions for further details.

INFORMATIONAL WEBINAR: The Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities (EFMA) Office will host a webinar in October 2026 to discuss the EFRI FY 2027/2028 solicitation and to answer questions. Webinar details will be posted on the EFMA Website.

Proposals must be prepared in accordance with the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG). Use the version of the guide that is in effect on the proposal's due date.

Summary of Program Requirements

General Information

Program Title:

EMERGING FRONTIERS IN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION (EFRI): Wave-Based Computing (WBC) (EFRI-WBC)

Synopsis of Program:

The Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) program serves a critical role in helping the NSF Directorate for Engineering focus on important emerging areas in a timely way. The EFRI program invests in potentially transformative ideas that offer the opportunity for significant shifts in foundational engineering knowledge. EFRI-funded research must have strong potential for long-term impact on strategic technology priorities and/or national science and technology (S&T) missions identified in the Administration's Fiscal Year (FY) 2028 Research and Development (R&D) Budget Priorities Memorandum. Such impacts need not be fully realized within the duration of the research period; however, proposers are expected to articulate how a proposal is use-inspired and may lay the foundations for stated priorities. This EFRI solicitation leverages a portfolio of both two-year EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) awards and larger four-year awards in response to Science: A New Golden Age, which calls for a more flexible set of funding mechanisms that match the scientific challenges they seek to address.

The EFRI Wave-Based Computing (WBC) solicitation will support foundational and transformative research to advance the development of computing approaches that harness the principles of wave dynamics.

The EFRI WBC solicitation will support two tracks.

• Track 1: Exploratory approaches may be funded through EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) awards.
• Track 2: Larger, multidisciplinary projects may be funded through four-year awards of up to $2,000,000.

The EFRI WBC program encourages collaboration with industry. Proposers may consider using a formal mechanism, such as NSF Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI).

NSF Priorities

NSF welcomes submissions from all researchers, particularly those earlier in their careers and those working in research areas aligned with agency and administration priorities. NSF also expects the highest standards of scientific rigor, integrity, and adherence to tenets of Gold Standard Science in proposals, as appropriate for the field of science and research modality.

Cognizant Program Officer(s):

Please note that the following information is current at the time of publishing. See program website for any updates to the points of contact.

• Sohi Rastegar, Office Head, ENG/EFMA, telephone: (703) 292-8305, email: EFRI2027-2028@nsf.gov
• Alias Smith, telephone: (703) 292-8367, email: EFRI2027-2028@nsf.gov
• Topic Lead: Nadia A. El-Masry, Program Director, ENG/EEC, telephone: (703) 292-4975, email: EFRI2027-2028@nsf.gov
• Topic Lead: Ananth Dodabalapur, Program Director, ENG/ECCS, telephone: (703) 292-8012, email: EFRI2027-2028@nsf.gov
• Hailiang Liu, Program Director, MPS/DMS, telephone: (703) 292-2436, email: EFRI2027-2028@nsf.gov
• Peter S. Atherton, Program Director, TIP/TI, telephone: (703) 292-8772, email: EFRI2027-2028@nsf.gov
• Louise R. Howe, Program Director, ENG/EFMA, telephone: (703) 292-2548, email: EFRI2027-2028@nsf.gov

Applicable Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number(s):

• 47.041 - Engineering
• 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences
• 47.084 - NSF Technology, Innovation and Partnerships

Award Information

Anticipated Type of Award: Standard Grant or Continuing Grant

Estimated Number of Awards: 15 to 30

Up to fifteen awards each in FY 2027 and FY 2028 are anticipated depending upon availability of funds and the type, scale, and variety of proposals submitted. Two types of proposals will be accepted in response to this solicitation.

Track 1: Wave-Based Computing–Exploratory Research (WBC-ER). EAGER proposals may request $100,000 to $400,000 for up to two years.

Track 2: Wave-Based Computing–Multidisciplinary Research (WBC-MR). Teams involving three or more investigators may submit a proposal requesting up to $2,000,000 for a project of four-year duration.

Anticipated Funding Amount: $30,000,000

$15,000,000 per fiscal year; pending the availability of funds

Proposal Preparation and Submission Instructions

A. Proposal Preparation Instructions

• Letters of Intent: Not required
• Preliminary Proposal Submission: Not required
• Full Proposal Preparation Instructions: This solicitation contains information that deviates from the standard NSF Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG) proposal preparation guidelines. Please see the full text of this solicitation for further information.

B. Budgetary Information

• Cost Sharing Requirements:

  Inclusion of voluntary committed cost sharing is prohibited.

• Indirect Cost (F&A) Limitations:

  Not Applicable

• Other Budgetary Limitations:

  Not Applicable

C. Due Dates

• Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. submitting organization's local time):

       February 11, 2027

       February 10, 2028

Proposal Review Information Criteria

Merit Review Criteria:

National Science Board approved criteria. Additional merit review criteria apply. Please see the full text of this solicitation for further information.

Award Administration Information

Award Conditions:

Additional award conditions apply. Please see the full text of this solicitation for further information.

Reporting Requirements:

Additional reporting requirements apply. Please see the full text of this solicitation for further information.

I. Introduction

The NSF Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Office of Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities (EFMA) provides funding opportunities for interdisciplinary teams of researchers to rapidly advance frontiers of foundational engineering research. The EFMA Office funds this research through its Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) program. Previous EFRI research led to advances in soft robotics, secure quantum communication, distributed chemical manufacturing, and other areas.

This EFRI solicitation invites proposals that aim to investigate the following research area:

Wave-Based Computing (WBC)

Wave-based computing (WBC) seeks to harness the principles of wave dynamics to improve the performance and efficiency of information processing tasks. WBC devices may be capable of higher throughput with much lower energy use than traditional digital electronics. Thus, WBC holds great potential to provide unprecedented computational power and energy efficiency, which can improve U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) capabilities.

Advances in materials, transducers, and design concepts should make it increasingly feasible to miniaturize and thus integrate WBC units within compact, chip-scale systems. Such a shift could enable a future in which WBC reshapes information technology architectures, creating alternatives to current computing architectures with increased computing speed yet decreased power consumption and supporting the continuing expansion of AI/ML.

The EFRI WBC program outcomes are expected to build on recent advances with the goal of producing use-inspired foundational research discoveries that will help realize novel technologies with substantially improved computational power and efficiency. This program offers the potential of exploring the synergies between diverse fields including materials science, physics, device engineering, microfabrication, computer science, and applied mathematics. To promote research translation, collaboration with industry is highly encouraged.

II. Program Description

1. Program Focus

The EFRI Wave-Based Computing (WBC) solicitation will support foundational and transformative research to advance the design, engineering, and fabrication of computational technologies that leverage wave interactions for computation, signal processing, and information transmission. WBC can use multiple physical architectures, such as free-space, waveguides, metasurfaces, and plasmonic structures.

While WBC is unlikely to replace digital computing, wave-based computational accelerators could work alongside traditional programmable digital computers. The expected result would significantly improve computational efficiency. In addition to supporting AI/ML platforms, WBC could benefit energy-constrained applications that require high performance and low power consumption—such as mobile phones, Internet of Things, and sensor networks within edge computing environments.

Recent theoretical and experimental discoveries have paved the way for novel computational architectures that harness both linear and nonlinear wave interactions. On the linear side, phenomena such as superposition, interference, diffraction, and refraction create rich possibilities. Nonlinear interactions—including harmonic generation, parametric coupling, and soliton formation—might expand the frontiers of computation.

Seamless integration of chip-scale WBC accelerators with traditional digital electronic systems could have major impacts. Fields ranging from telecommunications and image processing to high-performance computing could benefit from more sustainable and powerful technology solutions.

Research supported through this solicitation is expected to explore a variety of wave types, media, and platforms. Potential outcomes include:

• Multiplexed architectures for compact parallel computing: Use of metasurfaces, integrated photonics, transducer-based systems, or other approaches to enable scalable WBC.
• High-order nonlinear processes: New materials and devices leveraging nonlinear phenomena for increased computational throughput or floating-point operations per second (FLOPs) in WBC systems.
• Reconfigurable photonic and acoustic devices: Development of dynamically tunable systems, such as metasurfaces or phase-change materials, integrated into platforms to support adaptive WBC.
• Hybrid wave-quantum computing: Integration of quantum technologies—such as quantum light sources, detectors, nonlinear elements, and Floquet-engineered systems—into WBC architectures.
• Topological and quantum system concepts: Leveraging these in WBC platforms.
• Miniaturized chiplets and chip-scale integration: Design and demonstration of compact, integrated devices capable of chip-level advanced information processing.
• Heterogeneous integration across multistage and multilevel platforms: May involve combining different media and/or integrating multiple frequency regimes.

Proposals focusing specifically on spin-wave computing are not considered within scope for the purposes of this solicitation.

Proposals should advance one or more of the following measures of success: Publications from research or other scholarly outputs, and new technologies or techniques established.

2. Research Thrusts

Thrust 1: Physical principles of integrated WBC

Thrust 1 focuses on advancing the foundational physical principles of WBC. WBC systems should be designed to exploit the high speed, massive parallelism, low latency, low power usage, and high efficiency of WBC in a selected band of the broad frequency spectrum of electromagnetic waves. Projects may explore the use of acoustic waves for performing or augmenting WBC tasks. Both linear and non-linear processes may be used to facilitate wave interaction. Quantum phenomena such as entanglement and superposition may help in designing WBC systems.

Proposed research may develop or use a variety of emerging optical materials. These materials could include non-linear optical materials, phase change materials, reconfigurable materials, chiral, photochromic, and other functional low-loss optical materials. Research could focus on inorganic and organic/polymer materials, as well as metals, insulators and complex materials including reduced dimensional materials. Use of artificially structured, nanofabricated materials and heterogeneous integration on a chip are acceptable.

Proposals focusing purely on development of optical components such as optical switches or mixers coupled to GPUs would not be considered responsive to this solicitation.

Thrust 2: Information processing with waves

Design of the computational aspects of WBC for information/signal processing is an essential complement to the physical principles. Approaches for integrated wave information processing include analog, digital, mixed signal and neuromorphic architectures. The use of quantum information wave processing to enhance system performance or solve specific problems is also encouraged. Resilience against noise and interference causing errors in data is critical. Any combination of the above approaches that optimize information processing for specific problem solving may be proposed. Development of learning algorithms integrated with reconfigurable intelligent metasurfaces and other device structures may improve integration of ML with integrated WBC. In situ training of coherent neural networks using physics-informed principles and applied mathematics in combination with integrated WBC hardware is also of interest.

Thrust 3: Proof-of-concept testbeds

Thrust 3 requires the development of testbeds that translate the early-stage research and novel concepts developed under the prior thrusts into an actual platform that validates these concepts.

System-level testbeds should be able to perform one of the proposed computing paradigms. Both novelty and efficacy should be demonstrated. The proposed testbeds should include novel designs of device and system components and the algorithms for WBC developed under Thrusts 1 and 2. Testbeds that include specifically designed components or stages that facilitate information processing, such as the implementation of specific algorithms, are especially encouraged. All testbeds, whether hardware or software, should address at least one key computing performance metric, for example latency, throughput, bandwidth, energy efficiency, scalability, or error rate.

Proposers should explain how newly developed wave-based systems will work with current technologies. To ensure functionality for these wave-based systems, proposers should also consider the associated software ecosystem in their designs.

3. Available Tracks

Track 1: WBC–Exploratory Research (WBC-ER). Exploratory projects may be supported using EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) awards (PAPPG Chapter 2.F.3). EAGER proposals may request $100,000 to $400,000 for up to two years.

EAGER proposals must address at least one of Thrusts 1 and 2 and should also include a testbed unless the proposed research is purely theoretical.

Track 2: WBC–Multidisciplinary Research (WBC-MR). Larger multidisciplinary projects may be supported through four-year awards of up to $2,000,000. Track 2 proposals require a minimum of three PI/co-PIs.

Track 2 proposals must address all three Thrusts.

4. Industrial Collaboration

Collaboration with industry is highly encouraged. NSF GOALI proposals (PAPPG Chapter II.F.5) provide one mechanism for academia-industry collaboration. Proposals responding to Thrust 3 should consider how choices in key performance metric(s) map to the challenges in manufacturing and scaling future systems.

III. Award Information

The anticipated budget for this program solicitation is $15,000,000 in FY 2027 and $15,000,000 in FY 2028, pending the availability of funds. Each award will be funded as a Standard Grant or Continuing Grant. The anticipated number of awards in each fiscal year will vary depending on the number of Track 1 and Track 2 proposals funded. Track 1 proposals may receive support of $100,000-$400,000 for up to two years. Track 2 proposals may receive support of up to $2,000,000 over four years.

If a proposal involves multiple organizations, it must be submitted as a single proposal with subawards: separately submitted collaborative proposals are not permitted.

IV. Eligibility Information

Who May Submit Proposals:

Proposals may only be submitted by the following:

• Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs): Two- and four-year IHEs (including community colleges) accredited in, and having a campus located in the US, acting on behalf of their faculty members. Special Instructions for International Branch Campuses of US IHEs: If the proposal includes funding to be provided to an international branch campus of a US institution of higher education (including through use of sub-awards and consultant arrangements), the proposer must explain the benefit(s) to the project of performance at the international branch campus, and justify why the project activities cannot be performed at the US campus.
• Non-profit, non-academic organizations: Independent museums, observatories, research laboratories, professional societies and similar organizations located in the U.S. that are directly associated with educational or research activities.

Who May Serve as PI:

For all proposals submitted by Institutions of Higher Education, the lead Principal Investigator (PI) must be full-time, tenured or tenure-track faculty.

For all proposals submitted by Non-Profit, Non-Academic Organizations, the lead PI must meet all of the following requirements: (1) the PI has a continuing appointment that is expected to last the full term of the EFRI award; (2) the appointment has substantial research responsibilities; and (3) the proposed project relates to the PI's job responsibilities as well as to the mission of the department or organization.

For all proposals, either the PI or one of the co-PIs must have a full-time, tenured or tenure-track faculty appointment within a College/Department of Engineering.

Track 2 proposals must involve a minimum of one PI and two co-PIs.

Limit on Number of Proposals per Organization:

There are no restrictions or limits.

Limit on Number of Proposals per PI or co-PI: 1

An individual may participate as PI or co-PI on a maximum of one proposal submitted to this solicitation in a single fiscal year. The submitting organization is responsible for ensuring this limit is met.

If an individual is listed as PI and/or co-PI on more than one proposal submitted to this solicitation in the same fiscal year, all proposals in excess of the limit for any person will be returned without review. Proposals will be returned in the reverse order received, based on the proposal submission time stamp on the Cover Sheet.

V. Proposal Preparation and Submission Instructions

A. Proposal Preparation Instructions

Concept Outline Instructions

Concept Outlines are required for both tracks and must be submitted via email to EFRI2027-2028@nsf.gov. The concept outline should provide the following information:

• TITLE: Title of the EFRI Proposal (see below for instructions on prefix).
• TEAM: Names, departmental and organizational affiliations of the Principal Investigator and co-Principal Investigators.
• SYNOPSIS: Brief description of the core idea and specific goals of the proposed project (maximum of 500 words).

Full Proposal Instructions

Track 1 Proposals

If approved to submit to Track 1, proposers must follow the specific guidelines for EAGER proposals described in PAPPG Chapter II and the following supplemental instructions:

Proposal Title: For Track 1 proposals, the title must include the prefix "EAGER EFRI WBC-ER:" The title must state clearly and succinctly the major emerging frontier in research and innovation that is the focus of the project.

Project Summary (one-page limit): The Project Summary consists of an overview, a statement on the intellectual merit of the proposed activity, and a statement on the broader impacts of the proposed activity. Provide the following information.

1. In the Overview section provide the name of the PI, the lead organization, and a list of co-PIs and senior personnel (if any) together with their organizations;
2. A succinct summary of the intellectual merit of the proposed project. This should include the potentially transformative nature of the proposed research, and the significant leap or paradigm shift in foundational engineering knowledge; and
3. Describe the broader impacts of the proposed work, including the potential long-term impact on a strategic technology priority and/or national S&T mission listed in the Administration's FY 2028 R&D Budget Priorities Memorandum.

Proposals that do not separately address in the project summary both intellectual merit and broader impacts will be returned without review.

Project Description (maximum eight pages): These proposals should include within the Project Description:

1. Intellectual Merit
2. Broader Impacts: Please provide the following additional solicitation-specific information in this section:
   • Key Anticipated Outcomes. Describe how the proposed project will lead to a significant shift in foundational engineering knowledge and will have strong potential for significant impact on a strategic technology priority and/or national S&T mission.
   • Concisely articulate unifying and integrative aspects of the proposed research across scientific disciplines.
3. Results from Prior NSF Support

Budget: Proposed budgets must include funds for travel by at least one PI and one graduate student or researcher to attend an annual EFRI grantees' meeting.

Facilities, Equipment, and Other Resources

In the Supplementary Documentation section, include the following:

1. Mentoring Plan (maximum one page). If involvement of student trainees is planned other than those covered by the PAPPG Mentoring Plan requirement (e.g., undergraduate students), the proposal must include a Mentoring Plan with a description of the mentoring activities that will be provided for such students; and

Other Supplementary Documents: The following information must be provided as a Supplementary Document. This information is not included in the 8-page project description limitation.

1. PO Concurrence email. Upload the Concept Outline PO Concurrence email that indicates PO permission to submit a full proposal.
2. List of key personnel (maximum three pages). Provide a list of key personnel (PIs, Co-PIs, and Senior Personnel) involved, including their institutions, a description of what each person uniquely brings to the project, and, if multiple personnel are included, a description of how their expertise will be integrated to foster synergy;
3. Mechanisms for sharing the outcomes (maximum two pages). Provide a specific description of planned mechanisms for sharing the outcomes of the research with the scientific community, e.g., publications, web sites, etc. Describe what, how, and when the community would have access to the outcomes of the project. This is particularly important for projects that will produce tangible research tools and resources; and
4. PowerPoint Slide. Summarize the vision of the EFRI proposal. This slide will be used during review panel discussions.

Track 2 Proposals

Proposal Set-Up: Select "Prepare New Full Proposal" in Research.gov. Search for and select this solicitation title in Step One of the Full Proposal wizard. In the proposal details section, select "Single proposal (with or without subawards). Separately submitted collaborative proposals will be returned without review.

Proposal Title: For Track 2 proposals, the title must begin with "EFRI WBC-MR:". The title must state clearly and succinctly the major emerging frontier in research and innovation that is the focus of the project.

Project Summary (one-page limit): Follow guidance provided for Track 1.

Proposals that do not separately address in the project summary both intellectual merit and broader impacts will be returned without review.

Project Description (maximum 15 pages): Please adhere to guidance provided for Track 1, except for the maximum page limit, and include the following:

1. Intellectual Merit
2. Broader Impacts
3. Results from Prior NSF Support

Budget: Proposed budgets must include funds for travel by at least one PI and one graduate student or researcher to attend an annual EFRI grantees' meeting.

Facilities, Equipment, and Other Resources

In the Supplementary Documentation section, include the following:

1. Mentoring Plan (maximum one page). As described under Track 1; and
2. Data Management and Sharing Plan (maximum two pages). As described under Track 1.

Other Supplementary Documents: The following information must be provided as a Supplementary Document. This information is not included in the 15-page project description limitation.

1. PO Concurrence email. Upload the Concept Outline PO Concurrence email that indicates PO permission to submit a full proposal.
2. List of key personnel (maximum three pages). As described under Track 1;
3. Mechanisms for sharing the outcomes (maximum two pages). As described under Track 1;
4. A PowerPoint Slide. As described under Track 1; and
5. Management Plan (maximum three pages). 1) Plans for team coordination, personnel management, and project management; 2) Plan for management of intellectual property resulting from the project; 3) a detailed project schedule.

B. Budgetary Information

Cost Sharing:

Inclusion of voluntary committed cost sharing is prohibited.

Budget Preparation Instructions:

For both tracks, applicants must include in the proposal budget funds for travel by the PI and one graduate student or one researcher to attend an annual EFRI grantees' meeting. Recipients will be required to attend and present their research results and plans annually at an annual EFRI grantees' conference for the duration of their award.

VI. NSF Proposal Processing and Review Procedures

Information on NSF's proposal processing and review procedures is available on the Overview of the NSF Proposal and Award Process page on NSF.gov.

A. Merit Review Principles and Criteria

All NSF proposals are evaluated through use of the two National Science Board-approved merit review criteria:

• Intellectual Merit, which encompasses the potential to advance knowledge.
• Broader Impacts, which encompass the potential to benefit society and contribute to the achievement of specific, desired societal outcomes.

Information on NSF's merit review principles and process can be found on the How We Make Funding Decisions page on NSF.gov.

Additional Solicitation Specific Review Criteria

In addition to the two NSF review criteria (intellectual merit and broader impacts), the following criteria will be used in the review of all EFRI proposals:

• Thrusts. Does the proposal address the required thrusts?
• Transformative. Does the proposed research represent an opportunity for a significant leap or paradigm shift in foundational engineering knowledge?
• National Need. Is there potential for making significant progress on a strategic technology priority and/or national S&T mission listed in the Administration's FY 2028 R&D Budget Priorities Memorandum?
• Mentoring Plan. If involvement of trainees is planned (i.e., postdoctoral scholars, graduate students, undergraduates, other students), does the proposal include a description of the mentoring activities that will be provided for such supported trainees?
• Effectiveness of the proposed Management Plan (Track 2)

B. Review and Selection Process

Proposals submitted in response to this program solicitation will be reviewed by Ad hoc Review and/or Panel Review, or Internal NSF Review.

Concept Outlines will be evaluated internally by NSF Program Directors for programmatic responsiveness and suitability for the EFRI-Wave-Based Computing program. Prospective PIs will receive an email from the cognizant NSF program officer that specifies whether a full proposal may be submitted. The email confirming approval to submit an EFRI-WBC proposal must be uploaded by the prospective PI as a Supplementary Document as a component of proposal submission. Full proposals submitted without the requisite "Program Officer Concurrence Email" supplementary document will be returned without review.

Track 1 EAGER proposals submitted in response to this solicitation may be reviewed internally by NSF staff, reviewed in a panel or by ad hoc reviewers or any combination of these methods.

Track 2 proposals will be reviewed by panel and/or ad hoc reviewers.

In developing recommendations for awards, review panels as well as NSF staff will consider: the relative merit of the EFRI proposals using the criteria listed above, the potential national impact of the proposed activity, the balance of awards among scientific fields, geographical distribution, and the combined ability of the proposals to meet the objectives of the EFRI Office. The EFRI Office will not normally award more than one proposal from any one lead institution in this competition in a single cycle.

After a proposal passes an initial compliance check, it will be reviewed by an NSF Program Officer. In most cases, three or more external experts will also review it (either as ad hoc reviewers, panelists or both).

Visit the Overview of the NSF Proposal and Award Process page for more information on the proposal review and selection process.

In alignment with Executive Order 14332 (Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking), all else being equal after merit review, NSF may give preference to institutions with lower indirect cost rates.

VII. Award Administration Information

A. Notification of the Award

Notification of an award is made to the submitting organization by an NSF Grants and Agreements Officer.

B. Award Conditions

Information on NSF award conditions can be found on the Award Terms and Conditions page on NSF.gov and Chapter VII of the PAPPG.

Administrative and National Policy Requirements:

Information on administrative and national policy requirements can be found on the National Policy Requirements for Recipients of NSF Awards page on NSF.gov.

Consistent with the requirements specified in 2 CFR § 200.332, recipients of NSF awards must adhere to the requirements for pass-through entities in establishing and managing subawards issued ensuring alignment with Administration and NSF policies and priorities.

In alignment with Executive Order 14332 (Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking), proposers should be aware that NSF awards offered under this funding opportunity may include termination for convenience provisions.

Special Award Conditions:

The proposal budget must include funds for travel by the PI and one graduate student or one researcher to an annual EFRI grantees' meeting. Recipients will be required to attend and present their research results and plans at an annual EFRI grantees' conference for the lifetime of their award.

C. Reporting Requirements

Unless your award notice says otherwise, NSF requires the principal investigator of every grant to submit annual project reports and a project outcomes report for the general public. For complete reporting requirements, see Chapter VII of the PAPPG.

Additional Reporting Requirement

EFRI recipients who receive supplemental funding to support trainees must discuss the impact of the supplemental funding on the trainees' professional development. Impacts may include the effects of mentoring on trainees, and/or changes in the trainees' skill sets, understanding of science/engineering principles, attitudes towards research, and career trajectories. If recipients have received sequential supplements, longitudinal data should be provided.

VIII. Agency Contacts

For questions related to the use of NSF systems contact:

• Research.gov: NSF IT Service Desk at rgov@nsf.gov or 1-800-381-1532. The Service Desk is open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Eastern time, Monday through Friday (except for federal holidays).

IX. Other Information

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