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NOAA-NOS-OCS-2025-30451: Joint Hydrographic Center 2025

Closed Closed May 27, 2025 Opportunity NOAA-NOS-OCS-2025-30451 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$47.5 million
• Award floor$1
• Total funding$47.5 million
• Expected awards1
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Eligible funding applicants are institutions of higher education in the United States. To be eligible to apply or receive an award, applicant organizations must complete and maintain three registrations;SAM.gov, Grants.gov, and eRA Commons. For each, the complete registration process can take 4 to 6 weeks, so applicants must begin this activity as soon as possible and well before the proposal due date. For more information on how to meet these registration and application submission requirements without errors, we advise all to carefully review relevant Applicant and Grantee Training modules: https://www.commerce.gov/ocio/programs/gems/applicant-and-grantee-training.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Geodetic Surveys and Services (Geodesy and Applications of the National Geodetic Reference System) awards averaged $10.1 million; this notice allows up to $47.5 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (96% over five years) went to colleges and universities.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The purpose of this notice is to solicit proposals for a single cooperative agreement between NOAA and an institution of higher learning to operate and maintain a Joint Hydrographic Center as authorized in the Ocean and Coastal Mapping Integration Act and the Hydrographic Services Improvement Act. Additional supportive policy statements for the guidance of activities at these centers include the November 2019 Presidential Memorandum on ocean mapping, which calls for mapping, exploring, and characterizing the U.S. EEZ to improve our Nation’s understanding of our vast ocean resources and to advance the economic, security, and environmental interests of the United States. Proposals submitted in response to this announcement should advance the purposes of the Acts and the Presidential Memorandum by addressing the Program Priorities described in this announcement.

Category: Environment, Natural Resources, Science and Technology and other Research and Development.

Applying now

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