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W81EWF-23-SOI-0026: Scalable Water Resilience

Closed Closed August 23, 2023 Opportunity W81EWF-23-SOI-0026 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is open now: ERDC Broad Agency Announcement (W912HZ26S0001). Status: Closes January 1, 2027 (55 days left). It is in our archive of Engineer Research and Development Center notices from 2023.

• Award ceiling$200,000
• Total funding$200,000
• 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)

This opportunity is restricted to non-federal partners of the Piedmont-South Atlantic Coast Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit (CESU). Disclosures of current and pending support made in this application may render an applicant ineligible for funding. Prior to award and throughout the period of performance, ERDC may continue to request updated continuing and pending support information, which will be reviewed and may result in discontinuation of funding. Religious organizations are entitled to compete on equal footing with secular organizations for Federal financial assistance as described in E.O. 13798, “Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty.”

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering awards averaged $1.1 million; this notice allows up to $200,000 per award.
• Most of the program's money (69% over five years) went to colleges and universities.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

THIS IS A 2 PHASE APPROACH. SOI DUE: 07 August 2023. FULL PROPOSAL DUE: 23 August 2023 Resilience, broadly, is how effectively and efficiently a system mitigates and subsequently recovers from disruption. Improving community resiliency in the face of environmental, natural, economic, and social disruptions is proving to be paramount to achieving long-term stability for the US. USACE/ERDC has been working on developing methods and tools for resilience quantification in complex systems, including watershed resilience, for the Public good. Recent framework for resilience implementation (e.g., CISA’s Infrastructure Resilience Planning Framework (IRPF), OSTP’s Grand Resilience Pathways, other national and international resilience – related tools need to be adjusted to communities in the Southeast Region who experience emergencies from flooding and coastal storm damage. This work builds upon projects that have been initiated in the Southeast Region; however, the focus here is on building resilience for low-capacity communities. Communities that have historically been underserved (low-capacity) fail to receive the necessary aid, despite often standing to benefit the most from resiliency-oriented community projects. Compared to well-resourced communities (high-capacity), low-capacity communities do not have the financial resources or personnel capital to spend on highly competitive proposals. The entrenched “top-down” funding model neglects low-capacity communities and manifests three major barriers preventing adequate risk mitigation and resiliency building: 1) program requirements that impede access and benefits, 2) limited investment in local and regional technical assistance, and 3) obstacles to developing collaborative projects and partnerships. The objective of this program is to review resilience quantification methodology and processes of community engagement. Reconciling community needs and methodological gaps should result in methodological advancement. Extension from individual projects acting on specific communities to watershed and regional approaches is required. This work would focus on amplification from specific threat scenarios acting on individual vulnerabilities of specific communities toward multiple compounding threats acting at watershed-wide scale. Objective 1: Contribute to a stakeholder-driven Resilience Assessment for the Savannah River Basin.

Category: Science and Technology and other Research and Development.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, W912HZ26S0001, which is open now.

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