ROSES 2019: Gravity/Radio Science Team for the Europa Clipper Mission

PLEASE NOTE: this program has MANDATORY Notices of Intent, which are due via NSPIRES by October 21, 2019. Additionally, awards will be in the form of contracts and thus proposals can only be submitted via NSPIRES. Proposals to be Lead Scientist are due November 6, 2019 and proposals to be a team member are due January 24, 2020. See the full posting on NSPIRES for details.

NOTICE: Amended December 10, 2019. Proposals for Co-Investigators are now due January 24, 2020. This delay allows NASA time to select and announce the Lead Scientist for the Gravity/Radio Science team prior to the proposal deadline. New text is in bold and deleted text is struck through .

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (SMD) announces that its annual NASA Research Announcement (NRA), Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) 2019 will be released on or about March 14, 2019. ROSES is an omnibus NRA, with many individual program elements, each with its own due dates and topics. All together these cover the wide range of basic and applied supporting research and technology in space and Earth sciences supported by SMD. Awards will be made as grants, cooperative agreements, contracts, and inter- or intra-agency transfers, depending on the nature of the work proposed, the proposing organization, and/or program requirements. However, most extramural research awards deriving from ROSES will be grants, and many program elements of ROSES specifically exclude contracts, because contracts would not be appropriate for the nature of the work solicited. The typical period of performance for an award is three years, but some programs may allow up to five years and others specify shorter periods. Organizations of every type, domestic and foreign, Government and private, for profit and not-for-profit, may submit proposals without restriction on teaming arrangements. Note that it is NASA policy that all research involving non-U.S. organizations will be conducted on the basis of no exchange of funds. This ROSES-2019 NRA will be available on its release or about March 14, 2019, at http://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2019. Tables 2 and 3 of this NRA, which will be posted at http://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2019table2 and http://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2019table3, respectively, provide proposal due dates and hypertext links to descriptions of the solicited program elements in the Appendices of this NRA. To learn of additional new program elements or amendments to this NRA, proposers should subscribe to: (1) The SMD mailing lists (by logging in at http://nspires.nasaprs.com/ and checking the appropriate boxes under "Account Management" and "Email Subscriptions"), (2) The ROSES-2019 RSS feed for amendments, clarifications, and corrections to at http://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/grant-solicitations/ROSES-2019/, and (3) The ROSES-2019 due date Google calendar. Instructions are at https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/library-and-useful-links (link from the words due date calendar). Frequently asked questions about ROSES-2019 will be posted at http://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/faqs/. Further information about specific program elements may be obtained, after the release of ROSES-2019, from the individual Program Officers listed in the Summary of Key Information at the end of each program element of ROSES-2019 and at: http://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/program-officers-list/. Questions concerning general ROSES-2019 policies and procedures may be directed to Max Bernstein, Lead for Research, Science Mission Directorate, at sara@nasa.gov.