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<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in"><a name="_Hlk86774624"><span style="color:black">The National Science Foundation recently released a new topic as part of its Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) Program, titled,</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk86774624"></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><b><span style="color:black">Brain-inspired
Dynamics for Engineering Energy-Efficient Circuits and Artificial Intelligence (BRAID)</span></b><span style="color:black">. This topic will support interdisciplinary research to create a new engineering science of brain-inspired engineered learning systems.
Neuroscience research is in a period of explosive growth, producing new understanding of biological learning processes and their efficiency that remains largely untapped. This revolution in our understanding of the brain has revealed, for example, the critical
interplay of temporal dynamics across time scales from milliseconds to lifetimes and neural structures across spatial scales from nanometers to entire brains. BRAID seeks to exploit emerging advances in neuroscience for the design of engineered learning systems
that would exhibit the flexibility, robustness, and efficiency of biological intelligence, exemplified respectively by the continual and causal learning needed for adaptive autonomy, the abstraction and generalization needed to learn from few examples and
to identify relevant strategies from previously learned concepts and contexts, and the energy efficiency needed to extend the benefits of learning and autonomy throughout the built environment.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Each proposal submitted in response to the BRAID topic of the EFRI solicitation must address at least two out of the three threads (shown below):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">• Thread 1: Theoretical Neuroscience<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">• Thread 2: Brain-informed Hardware Design </span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">• Thread 3: Algorithmic Learning for Resilient Adaptive Technologies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">While responses to all three threads are encouraged, response to Thread 1 is mandatory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a name="_Hlk86774352"></a><a name="_Hlk86774515"></a><a name="_Hlk86774265"></a><span style="color:black">The full solicitation (21-615) can be found here:</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/emerging-frontiers-research-and-innovation" title="https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/emerging-frontiers-research-and-innovation"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/emerging-frontiers-research-and-innovation</span></a>.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><a name="_Hlk86774308"><span style="color:black;background:yellow">The
EFRI program webinar slides and recording can be found here:</span></a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.nsf.gov/events/event_summ.jsp?cntn_id=303513&org=NSF" title="https://www.nsf.gov/events/event_summ.jsp?cntn_id=303513&org=NSF"><span style="color:#0563C1;background:yellow">https://www.nsf.gov/events/event_summ.jsp?cntn_id=303513&org=NSF</span></a><span style="background:yellow">.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a name="_Hlk86774479"><span style="color:black">Each award can be up to 2M over grant lifetime (including both direct and indirect costs).</span></a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Period of performance can be up to 4 years in duration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a name="_Hlk86763435"><span style="color:black">For the</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk86763435"></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><b><span style="color:black">Fiscal Year 22</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span style="color:black">competition<span style="background:yellow">,
Letter of Intent will be due on November 10, 2021</span>. Preliminary Proposal will be due on December 16, 2021. Full Proposal will be due on March 10, 2022.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">For the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><b><span style="color:black">Fiscal Year 23</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span style="color:black">competition,
Letter of Intent will be due on September 12, 2022. Preliminary Proposal will be due on October 13, 2022. Full Proposal will be due on February 7, 2023.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Investigators are encouraged to send a one-page summary comprising intellectual merit and broader impacts to</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:braid@nsf.gov" title="mailto:braid@nsf.gov"><span style="color:#0563C1">braid@nsf.gov</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">Betty Tuller, Ph.D.</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> <br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#2C3CFF">Director, Program in Perception, Action, and Cognition <br>
National Science Foundation <br>
2415 Eisenhower Avenue </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#2C3CFF">Alexandria, VA 22314</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">Tel: 703.292.7238</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> <br>
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</span><span style="color:#0563C1;font-style:normal">Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide</span></a></i> (to be used on or after Oct. 4, 2021)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#2229B2;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
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<span style="color:#2229B2">PAC program</span></a> webpage.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#2229B2;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">The <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2019/nsf19069/nsf19069.jsp">
<span style="color:#2229B2">Dear Colleague Letter: Effective Practices for Data</span></a>, and
<a href="https://lnks.gd/l/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJlbWFpbCI6ImJ0dWxsZXJAbnNmLmdvdiIsImJ1bGxldGluX2xpbmtfaWQiOiIxMDMiLCJzdWJzY3JpYmVyX2lkIjoiNDk2NzA3OTIiLCJsaW5rX2lkIjoiMTI5NzkxMzExNyIsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpkaWdlc3QiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5uc2YuZ292L3B1YnMvMjAyMS9uc2YyMTA1OS9uc2YyMTA1OS5qc3AiLCJidWxsZXRpbl9pZCI6IjIwMjEwMzIyLjM3NDUwNzIxIn0.wTonbTp72RsPZwWUz0KJyaUZIXGPo_UdKhgh0SzsglE" title="https://lnks.gd/l/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJlbWFpbCI6ImJ0dWxsZXJAbnNmLmdvdiIsImJ1bGxldGluX2xpbmtfaWQiOiIxMDMiLCJzdWJzY3JpYmVyX2lkIjoiNDk2NzA3OTIiLCJsaW5rX2lkIjoiMTI5NzkxMzExNyIsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpkaWdlc3QiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5uc2YuZ292L3B1YnMvMjAyMS9uc2Yy">
<span style="color:#2229B2">Dear Colleague Letter: A Broader Impacts Framework for Proposals Submitted to NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#2229B2;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
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