DE-FOA-NA0003284: PREDICTIVE SCIENCE ACADEMIC ALLIANCE PROGRAM IV
Closed
This grant is closed. Who won this program's grants before is below, and similar open grants are at the end of the page. It is in our archive of NNSA notices from 2024.
NNSA offered grants of up to $3.5 million (at least $500,000) to colleges and universities. It expected to make about 9 awards worth $105 million in total. Applications closed on October 4, 2024.
From the official notice on Grants.gov, last changed October 1, 2024. Checked November 7, 2026.
- Award ceiling$3.5 million
- Award floor$500,000
- Total funding$105 million
- Expected awards9
- Cost sharingRequired
- Funding typeCooperative Agreement
Key dates
| Posted | May 22, 2024 |
|---|---|
| Deadline | October 4, 2024 |
| Archived by Grants.gov | November 4, 2024 |
Who can apply
This opportunity was open to colleges and universities.
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
Is this a realistic fit?
- Past Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program awards averaged $5.4 million; this notice allows up to $3.5 million per award.
- Most of the program's money (100% over five years) went to colleges and universities.
- The notice requires cost sharing or matching funds, so you must contribute part of the project cost.
What the grant funds
The NNSA Academic Programs and Community Support, Office of Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) and Institutional Research and Development Programs (NA-114), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), are initiating the next phase of its academic program, called Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program IV (PSAAP IV). PSAAP IV will add an additional focus, on the development and application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies to improve quantified predictive capabilities. The DOE NNSA Academic Programs and Community Support PSAAP IV Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), DE-FOA-NA0003284, and succeeding awarded agreements, are made possible from NNSA’s statutory authority, and are managed by applicable guidance, regulations, and laws. Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program IV (PSAAP IV) will support leading U.S. institutions of higher education, with doctoral programs, engaging in five major focus areas: 1. Discipline-focused research to further predictive science and enabled by effective exascale computing and data science technologies; 2. Mathematics and computer science (CS) technologies and methodologies to support effective exascale computing in the context of science/engineering applications (development and demonstration); 3. State-of-the-art machine learning (ML) and data science technologies for predictive science and engineering (utilization and advancement); 4. Predictive science based on verification, validation, and uncertainty quantification (VVUQ) for large-scale simulations; and 5. Workforce development of the next-generation computational scientists. PSAAP IV will create a program consisting of two types of Centers: Predictive Simulation Centers (PSCs) and Focused Investigatory Centers (FICs). 1. Predictive Simulation Centers (PSCs) will be required to focus their research on scalable application simulations, targeting either large-scale, integrated multidisciplinary problems or a broad single science/engineering discipline, to be carried out on ASC’s unclassified high-performance computing (HPC) systems that will be made available to the funded PSAAP IV Centers.
Who has won Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program grants before
From fiscal 2021 to 2025, Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program (81.124) awarded $96.6 million across 18 grant awards, an average of $5.4 million per award.
| Recipient | State | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Illinois | Illinois | 1 | $14.0 million |
| University of Texas at Austin | Texas | 1 | $14.0 million |
| The Leland Stanford Junior University | California | 1 | $14.0 million |
| The Regents of the University of Colorado | Colorado | 1 | $12.1 million |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Massachusetts | 2 | $10.1 million |
Applying now
This notice no longer takes applications. Agencies often post the same opportunity again under a new number, so check the program's notices on Grants.gov and the similar open grants below.
The notice on Grants.gov keeps its full text and attachments, which is useful for planning a resubmission.
Questions people ask
Is DE-FOA-NA0003284 still open?
No. It closed on October 4, 2024.
Who can apply for PREDICTIVE SCIENCE ACADEMIC ALLIANCE PROGRAM IV?
NNSA accepted applications from colleges and universities.
What is the deadline for PREDICTIVE SCIENCE ACADEMIC ALLIANCE PROGRAM IV?
Closed October 4, 2024. Applications are no longer accepted; the program's newer notices are on this page when there are any.
How much funding is available?
Awards of up to $3.5 million each. About $105 million in total across about 9 awards.
Who has won Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program grants before?
The largest recipients over five fiscal years were University of Illinois, University of Texas at Austin, The Leland Stanford Junior University. The program made 18 awards worth $96.6 million in that time.