Federal Funding Opportunity
NOAA Climate Transition Program (NCTP)
Proposal Deadline: Monday, 30 August 2004
For further information, please go to:
http://www.ogp.noaa.gov
A funding opportunity is offered as part of the NOAA Climate Transition
Program (NCTP). The NCTP is a new program within the NOAA Climate Office
that supports transition of climate information tools and management
insights into user-relevant products. It is a competitive program.
The NCTP supports the transition of research that is at a well-developed
prototype stage and is recognized as being useful and worthy of adoption
by decision-makers, operational information disseminators, and
operational climate organizations. A research prototype can include
products, processes, or policy tools. The program supports structured
partnerships between the prototype developers and the adopting
operational institutions' staff to refine and transition the prototype
permanently into an operational environment.
An operational entity is not primarily a research entity as its primary
objective is provision of a product or service of consistent quality to
the U.S. public on an ongoing basis. The program will not fund projects
that contain research that is not formally recognized by operational
entities or decision-makers as being sufficiently robust to be worthy of
adoption by their organizations. This program builds on existing work
throughout NOAA and partnerships across NOAA, with other Federal and
State agencies, academia, and the private sector.
This funding is a partnership opportunity, which is open to the federal
and the non-federal research community. The program has only $300K for
FY05 but grows substantially after that.
For further information, please go to:
http://www.ogp.noaa.gov