ROSES25: F.17 Research Initiation Awards

NOTICE: Amended May 20, 2026. This amendment releases final text for this program element, which was previously TBD. Neither an NOI nor Step-1 proposal is requested. The due date for proposals is August 18, 2026. An informational webinar about this opportunity will occur at 1 p.m. Eastern Time on June 16. Register for the webinar at https://nasaevents.webex.com/weblink/register/r2fbc7ed95634bfe1170fd634303f5b1c.

The total award value for two years is capped at $300,000. However, a budget narrative and table of work effort will be required. The Science/Technical/Management section of proposals is limited to six pages.

This program will evaluate proposals using dual-anonymous peer review. See Section 4 and the associated "Guidelines for Proposers to ROSES DAPR Programs" document under "Other Documents" on the NSPIRES page for this program element.

This synopsis is a generic summary that is posted for each of the many individual "program elements" in NASA’s Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) – 2025 solicitation. For specific information on this particular program element download and read the PDF of the text of this program element by going to Tables 2 or 3 of ROSES at https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2025table2

and https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2025table3, respectively, click the title of the program element of interest, a hypertext link will take you to a page for that particular program element. On that page, on the right side under "Announcement Documents" the link on the bottom will be to the PDF of the text of the call for proposals. For example, if one were interested in the Solar System Science program (NNH25ZDA001N-SCUBED) one would follow the link to the NSPIRES page for that program element and then to read the text of the call one would click on “C.2 Solar System Science (.pdf)” to download the text of the call. If one wanted to set it into the context of the goals, objectives and know the default rules for all...