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RFA-OH-23-005: NIOSH Robotics and Intelligent Mining Technology and Workplace Safety Research (U60)

Closed Closed April 28, 2023 Opportunity RFA-OH-23-005 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is forecast: NIOSH Robotics and Intelligent Mining Technology and Workplace Safety Research (U60) (RFA-OH-27-044). Status: Expected deadline February 8, 2027. It is in our archive of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - ERA notices from 2023.

• Award ceiling$2.0 million
• Award floor$1.6 million
• Total funding$8.0 million
• Expected awards1
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to any type of organization.

In accordance with the Division H – Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023 applicants must be a United States academic institution that offers graduate degree programs in both mining and explosives engineering. The documentation of an academic accredited institution with graduate degree programs in both mining and explosives engineering must be submitted with the application to support an eligibility determination.

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Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Occupational Safety and Health Program awards averaged $1.9 million; this notice allows up to $2.0 million per award.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The purpose of this NOFO is to solicit meritorious applications from universities with graduate degree programs in both mining and explosives engineering to develop and conduct research initiatives in automation, robotics, and intelligent mining systems to improve workplace safety and health in U.S. mining operations and to build on NIOSH's work to address Congress mandates in the Consolidated Appropiations Act of 2023. This research will contribute to the goal of eliminating mining fatalities within the next two decades. The impact of research conducted by recipients should focus on advances in assured autonomy, i.e., assuring autonomous mining equipment and robotics achieve improved workplace safety and health for mine workers while meeting efficiency and productivity goals. Impacts could include but are not limited to:Advances in and implementation of human-centered design principles for automated equipment and the systems used to monitor or interact with them. New methods, guidance, and best practices in change management, training/retraining workers, technology integration, and safety evaluation. New methods and evaluation techniques for safe design that consider the entire mining operation as a system. Advances and availability of enabling technologies for assured autonomy including sensors, data fusion and processing, artificial intelligence, and systems for improved machine and operator situational awareness. Availability of new miner rescue and post-disaster surveillance technologies.

Category: Health.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, RFA-OH-27-044, which is forecast.

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