FY2023 Weather Program Office Research Programs

Applicants are responsible for ensuring that they are eligible for the competition for which they are applying. If any applicants requesting funding are ineligible, the application(s) will be rejected without review. Eligible applicants are: -U.S. institutions of higher education; -Cooperative Institutes; -U.S.-based commercial organizations; -State, local and Indian tribal governments in the U.S.; and -U.S. non-profit organizations. No foreign (based outside of the U.S.) applicants may request funding. Applicability to Federal Employees and Contractors: Federal employees may serve as co-PIs or co-Investigators (co-Is) but their salary costs are ineligible expenses to be covered by awards from this NOFO. Any NOAA Federal applicant is required to partner with one or more eligible non-federal institution(s) who would submit the application for the competition through Grants.gov per instructions in Section IV.G “Other Submission Requirements.” Eligibility also depends on the statutory authority that permits NOAA to fund the proposed activity. For the purposes of this funding announcement, contractors for the Federal government have the same eligibility restrictions as Federal employees. Costs incurred by NOAA federal collaborators are eligible for funding through this NOFO only if they fit into one of the categories listed below. Further details are provided in the attached NOFO Information Sheet. Allowed: NOAA federal collaborator travel is only eligible in critical project-dependent cases, not including conference or workshop travel. Allowed: NOAA Federal funding may also cover project-critical equipment, indirect (overhead) costs for NOAA affiliate institutions, infrastructure, and testbed- related costs. NOT Allowed: Any other direct funding for federal institutions, including employee salaries or other costs not listed as eligible in Section III.A, will not be considered as part of this funding opportunity. All funded investigators must assure and verify, if requested, that they will not be allocated for greater than 100% of their annual employment time should their proposal be selected for funding. NOAA will verify this requirement if the proposal is recommended for funding.

For general questions about this announcement, please contact WPO at oar.wpo.competitions@noaa.gov. For specific questions about a specific competition, please contact the appropriate Federal Program Manager below: 1) Innovations: Henrique Alves (henrique.alves@noaa.gov; (302-751-6557) -NWP priorities: Chandra Kondragunta (chandra.kondragunta@noaa.gov; 202-603-2567) Maoyi Huang (maoyi.huang@noaa.gov; 202-853-6776) -Fire Weather priorities: Jordan Dale (jordan.dale@noaa.gov; 240-475-7182) -Western States Hydrology priorities: Jessie Carman (jessie.carman; 202-381-7037) 2) Observations: Mark Vincent (mark.vincent@noaa.gov; 240-499-6413) 3) SBES: Gina Eosco (gina.eosco@noaa.gov; 301-734-1068) 4) VORTEX-USA: Alan Gerard (alan.e.gerard@noaa.gov; 405-325-6477)