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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

         
  View President Obama recently signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (AARA or Stimulus Act) into law. Of the total $787 billion in funding provided under the Stimulus Act, $21.5 billion is reserved for federal research and development. These funds must be allocated within the next two years. This site has been developed to provide the most recent information on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (AARA or Stimulus Bill) for the campus community.

Please contact James Perkins, PhD, Associate Dean of Research & Corporate Relations College of Science, Engineering and Technology or BoNita Harris of the CSET Office of Research at 601.979.2024 should you have any questions or need additional information.

   
         
    United States Legislative Funding Update    
         
  American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 Federal Recovery Website: The federal government's primary website for Recovery Act information and execution. (Includes a link to the full text of the legislation, P.L. 111-5, previously known as H.R. 1.)    
         
    AAAS Summary: The American Association for the Advancement of Science's Analysis of R&D funding on the 2009 Stimulus Appropriations Bill.    
         
    Links to individual agency sites    
         
    Alliance for Science & Technology Research in America (ASTRA) Legislative Update    
         
    NIH Challenge Grants in Health and Science Web Page    
         
    NIH Institute & Center (IC) Challenge Area Web Sites    
         
    Recovery Act of 2009: NIH Review Criteria, Scoring System, and Suspension of Appeals Process    
         
    OMB: Initial Implementing Guidance for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009    
         
    The Association of American Universities (AAU)    
         
    Links to every agency’s Recovery Act website    
         
    Latest Recovery Act grant announcements and click on “Recovery Act Opportunities”    
         
    Announcements    
         
    Recovery Act Implementation: Improving Grants.gov and Other Critical Systems: Memorandum from Peter R. Orszag, Director of the Office of Management and Budget:    
         
    NIH News Release: NIH Announces American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Funding Opportunities - $ 1 Billion Available for Extramural Core Facilities and Other Construction, Renovation or Repair Awards    
         
    NCRR Addition of Recovery Funds to the Shared Instrumentation Grant Program    
         
    NIH's Role in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) - Statement from Dr. Kington    
         
    Statement on the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 by Arden L. Bement, Jr., Director, National Science Foundation,    
         
    Agency Recovery Web Sites:    
         
    Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS)    
    Department of Commerce (DOC)    
    Department of Defense (DOD)    
    Department of Education (ED)    
    Department of Energy (DOE)    
    Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)    
    Department of State (DOS)    
    Department of Homeland Security (DHS)    
    Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)    
    Department of the Interior (DOI)    
    Department of Justice (DOJ)    
    Department of Labor (DOL)    
    Department of State (DOS)    
    Department of Transportation (DOT)    
    Department of Treasury (TREAS)    
    Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)    
    Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)    
    General Services Administration (GSA)    
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)    
    National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)    
    National Institutes of Health (NIH)    
    National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST)    
    National Science Foundation (NSF)    
    Small Business Administration (SBA)    
    Smithsonian Institution (SI)    
  Social Security Administration (SSA)    
  U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)    
  U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)    
       
  Summary of Funding by Department    
       
    Agriculture: The Agricultural Research Service receives $176 million for deferred maintenance its buildings.    
         
    Commerce - NIST: The Recovery Act provides NIST received $220 million for scientific and technical research. It also provides $360 million for construction of research facilities; $180 million of this money is for a competitive construction grant for research science buildings.    
         
    NOAA: NOAA receives $830 million from the Recovery Act. It will be spent on a variety of projects; $170 million will be spent on climate modeling activities, including research and supercomputer procurement.    
         
    Defense: The Recovery Act includes money for research, development, testing and evaluation. The Army, Navy and Air Force are slated to receive $75 million each. Another $75 million will be available for defense-wide projects.    
         
    Education - Teacher Quality Program: Higher education receives $100 million to implement the Improving Teacher Quality program. Higher education may also receive funding through the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund.    
         
   

Education - Stabilization Fund: Money that public institutions of higher education receive through the Stabilization Fund must be used for education and general expenditures, with the goal of mitigating tuition increases for in-state student or modernizing facilities. Funds may not be used for athletic facilities and certain other purposes. The act also includes funding to promote college affordability.

   
         
    Energy: Energy receives $1.6 billion for science. Some funding will be used for renovation of laboratories and other research facilities. Funding also will support basic research in areas including high energy and nuclear physics, advanced computing, basic chemical and materials science, among other fields. Research areas of interest also include renewable energy technologies, battery research and advanced vehicle technologies.

The Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy will get  $400 million to fund high-risk, high-payoff research in collaboration with industry.Energy also receives $3.4 billion for fossil energy research and development. Details on how to apply to all these opportunities are not yet available.

   
         
    HHS - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: AHRQ gets substantial funding for research on comparative effectiveness of healthcare treatments and strategies. HHS secretary will have $400 million to use at his discretion for such research; the director of NIH will get another $400 million for this purpose; and AHRQ gets $300 million. Specific grant information is not yet available.    
         
    National Institutes of Health: NIH gets $10.4 billion in the stimulus package. It plans to use some of the money to support recently reviewed, meritorious proposals that were not supported due to a lack of funds. It also will fund new research applications and roll out a new program called the Challenge Grant Program that targets specific research topics. Grants for construction and instrumentation also are available.    
         
    NIH Challenge Grants: Challenge Grant request for applications.  (No limit on number of applications; deadline April 27, 2009)    
         
    NIH Challenge Grant Program Overview: Topics covered in the Challenge Grant program:  Behavior, Behavioral Change, and Prevention; Bioethics; Biomarker Discovery and Validation; Clinical Research; Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER); Enabling Technologies; Enhancing Clinical Trials; Genomics; Health Disparities; Information Technology for Processing Health Care Data; Regenerative Medicine; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education (STEM); Smart Biomaterials – Theranostics; Stem Cells; Translational Science    
         
    NIH Core Facility Renovation, Repair, and Improvement: Limit of three applications per institution; deadline Sept. 17, 2009.    
         
    NIH Extramural Research Facilities Improvement Program: No limit on number of applications; deadline is May 6 for requests of $2 million to $5 million; June 17 for requests of $10 million to $15 million; and July 17 for requests of $5 million to $10 million.    
         
    NIH High-End Instrumentation Grant Program: $600,000 to $8 million, no limit on number of applications per institution; deadline May 6, 2009.    
         
   

NIH Cross-Agency Programs: Electronic Health Records (EHR) & Related Technology (Details about applying for this funding are not yet available.) The Recovery Act directs NIST and NSF to work together to establish an assistance program for Centers for Health Care Information Enterprise Integration. Institutions of higher education, as well as consortia of these institutions) including nonprofits and federal laboratories), are eligible.

The act also empowers DHHS to support demonstration programs for the development of “academic curricula integrating certified EHR technology into the clinical education of health professionals.” The program is to be competitive and peer-reviewed. Among those eligible are institutions that provide graduate education in nursing, pharmacy or behavioral health.

DHHS is to work with NSF to establish or expand medical health informatics education programs. These can include certification, undergraduate and masters’ degree programs. 

   
         
    Interior - U.S. Geological Survey: This agency will receive $1 billion. Of that amount, $140 million is for repair, construction and restoration of facilities; equipment replacement and upgrades, including seismic and volcano monitoring systems; and national map activities, among other purposes.    
         
    Justice: Justice is currently preparing a solicitation for the Internet Crimes Against Children Grants program.    
         
    Labor: Labor gets $75 million for a competitive grant program to train workers for high growth and emerging industry sectors. Of this, $500 million is for research, labor exchange and job-training programs that prepare workers for careers in energy efficiency and the renewable energy industry. The remaining funds are to be used to prepare workers for careers in health care.    
         
    NASA: NASA receives $400 million for science, $150 million for aeronautics, $400 million for exploration and $50 million for cross-agency support programs.    
         
    National Endowment for the Arts: The endowment receives $50 million, which will be used for competitive grants and grants to state and regional arts organizations.    
         
    NSF: NSF receives $2.5 billion for research and related activities. Of this, $300 million will be available for the Major Research Instrumentation program, and $200 million for academic research facilities modernization.  In addition, it gets $100 million for education and human resources, and $400 million for major research equipment and facilities construction.    
         
         
 
 

 

   
  Posted 03/19/2009  
 
 
For More Information Concerning These Opportunities Contact:
BoNita L. Harris
Outreach Manager, CSET Office of Research
bonita.l.harris@jsums.edu
601.979.2024