https://awkwardsky.github.io/five-dollars Software, AI, and Automation Opportunities Mon, 09 Nov 2026 06:45:58 GMT https://awkwardsky.github.io/five-dollars/opportunities/grants-gov-361333-pathways-to-enable-secure-open-source-ecosystems-pesose.html Grants.gov:Pathways to Enable Secure Open-Source Ecosystems (PESOSE):03/02/2027 The Pathways to Enable Secure Open-Source Ecosystems (PESOSE) program supports the translation of open-source science and engineering-focused research products into safe and sustainable ecosystems that address national and societal challenges. Open-source tools such as software, hardware, machine learning models, languages, and data platforms are designed to be shared as they are publicly-accessible and modifiable. These tools spark innovation in critical fields as varied as artificial intell... https://awkwardsky.github.io/five-dollars/opportunities/grants-gov-362758-u-s-d-r-technology-and-science-fair.html Grants.gov:U.S.-D.R. Technology and Science Fair:07/10/2026 1. Project Background, Goals, and Objectives The U.S. Embassy in Santo Domingo seeks to increase Dominican engagement with U.S.-linked opportunities in technology, innovation, entrepreneurship, and emerging industries at a time when fields such as semiconductors, artificial intelligence, engineering, cybersecurity, and digital innovation are reshaping the global economy and workforce. The Dominican Republic has a growing ecosystem of students, entrepreneurs, startups, and innovation-focused i... https://awkwardsky.github.io/five-dollars/opportunities/grants-gov-362392-tech-innovation-lab.html Grants.gov:Tech Innovation Lab:07/13/2026 Funding Opportunity Title : Tech Innovation Lab Funding Opportunity Number : PAS-MOROCCO-FY26-03 Deadline for Applications : July 13, 2026 at 23:59 GMT+1 Assistance Listing Number : 19.040 Length of performance period : 12 to 18 months Number of awards anticipated : 1 award Total available funding : $200,000 pending availability of funds Type of Funding : FY26 Smith Mundt Public Diplomacy Funds Anticipated project start date : October 2026 Funding Instrument Type: Cooperative agreement. Proje... https://awkwardsky.github.io/five-dollars/opportunities/grants-gov-362757-prosperity-stack-fellowship.html Grants.gov:Prosperity Stack Fellowship:07/13/2026 Funding Opportunity Title: Prosperity Stack Fellowship Funding Opportunity Number: PD-SEOUL-FY26-03 Deadline for Applications : Monday, July 13, 2026, 11:59 p.m. (GMT+9) CFDA Number: 19.441 Type of Funding: FY26 Fulbright-Hays, American Spaces Support Funds Total Amount Available: $108,000 This notice is subject to availability of funding. Executive Summary The U.S. Embassy Seoul Public Diplomacy Section invites proposals to implement the Prosperity Stack Fellowship, a strategic accelerator p... https://awkwardsky.github.io/five-dollars/opportunities/grants-gov-362971-fy-2026-cn-technology-innovation-grant-for-child-and-adult-care-food-p.html Grants.gov:FY 2026 CN Technology Innovation Grant for Child and Adult Care Food Program Integrity:07/31/2026 Executive Summary Under the leadership of Secretary Brooke Rollins, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is committed to supporting State innovation, developing and implementing modernized systems, and minimizing instances of fraud, waste, and program abuse. To advance these priorities, the USDA’s Food and Nutrition Administration (FNA) is excited to announce the availability of $8.7 million to provide competitive grants to State agencies to strengthen the integrity of the Child... https://awkwardsky.github.io/five-dollars/opportunities/grants-gov-363267-young-trilateral-leaders-ytl-summit.html Grants.gov:Young Trilateral Leaders (YTL) Summit:08/05/2026 Funding Opportunity Title: 2027 Young Trilateral Leaders (YTL) Summit Funding Opportunity Number: PD-SEOUL-FY26-04 Deadline for Applications : Wednesday, August 5, 2026, 11:59 p.m. (GMT+9) CFDA Number: 19.040 Type of Funding: FY26 Smith Mundt Public Diplomacy Funds Total Amount Available: $250,000 This notice is subject to availability of funding. This NOFO is currently listed under Assistance Listing 19.040 – Public Diplomacy Programs and the Smith-Mundt Act authority. The final funding sour... https://awkwardsky.github.io/five-dollars/opportunities/grants-gov-363078-muscat-annual-program-statement-aps-pd-small-grants-program.html Grants.gov:Muscat - Annual Program Statement (APS)- PD Small Grants Program:08/09/2026 The Public Diplomacy Section of U.S. Embassy Muscat announces an open competition to support projects that advance U.S. foreign policy priorities in Oman while strengthening the long-standing partnership between the United States and the Sultanate of Oman. This Annual Program Statement outlines strategic funding priorities, eligibility criteria, and application guidelines for grants ranging from $1,000 to $100,000, with project durations of up to 12 months. Successful proposals should clearly... https://awkwardsky.github.io/five-dollars/opportunities/grants-gov-362900-the-2027-yseali-regional-workshop-securing-supply-chains.html Grants.gov:The 2027 YSEALI Regional Workshop: Securing Supply Chains:08/31/2026 Project Background, Goals, and Objectives In an era of global disruption and rapid technological change, secure and resilient supply chains are more critical than ever. This workshop will bring together early-stage professionals from across Southeast Asia to explore how supply chains operate, the impact of advanced technologies, and the critical minerals that power modern economies. They will leave equipped with tools to increase advocacy efforts that support national-level policy, encouragin... https://awkwardsky.github.io/five-dollars/opportunities/grants-gov-363440-advancing-investigative-journalism-in-ukraine-through-u-s-ai-innovatio.html Grants.gov:Advancing Investigative Journalism in Ukraine through U.S. AI Innovation:09/01/2026 The U.S. Department of State's Embassy Kyiv announces an open competition for Ukrainian non-governmental media organizations and independent media outlets to implement a program that strengthens data-driven and AI-enabled journalism in Ukraine. It will build the capacity of journalists and newsrooms to produce high-quality reporting on economic development, reconstruction and investment through training in investigative reporting, data journalism, artificial intelligence, open-source research... https://awkwardsky.github.io/five-dollars/opportunities/grants-gov-362259-dow-prostate-cancer-data-science-award.html Grants.gov:DoW Prostate Cancer, Data Science Award:09/02/2026 Summary: The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Prostate Cancer Research Program (PCRP) Data Science Award (DSA) supports research that develops or uses quantitative and analytical approaches, processes and/or systems to obtain knowledge and insight from large and/or complex sets of prostate cancer data in one or more of the following research areas: Analysis of clinically annotated datasets; analysis of -omics data; artificial intelligence and machine learning; bioinformatics; computational biology; di... https://awkwardsky.github.io/five-dollars/opportunities/grants-gov-349654-division-of-materials-research-condensed-matter-and-materials-theory-c.html Grants.gov:Division of Materials Research: Condensed Matter and Materials Theory (CMMT):Proposals accepted anytime CMMT supports theoretical and computational materials research in the topical areas represented in DMR's other Topical Materials Research Programs (these are also variously known as Individual Investigator Award (IIA) Programs, or Core Programs, or Disciplinary Programs), which are: Condensed Matter Physics (CMP), Biomaterials (BMAT), Ceramics (CER), Electronic and Photonic Materials (EPM), Metals and Metallic Nanostructures (MMN), Polymers (POL), and Solid State and Materials Chemistry (SSMC... https://awkwardsky.github.io/five-dollars/opportunities/grants-gov-348258-energy-power-control-and-networks.html Grants.gov:Energy, Power, Control, and Networks:Proposals accepted anytime The Energy, Power, Control, andNetworks (EPCN) Program supports innovative research in modeling, optimization, learning, adaptation, and control of networked multi-agent systems, higher-level decision making, and dynamic resource allocation, as well as risk management in the presence of uncertainty, sub-system failures, and stochastic disturbances. EPCN also invests in novel machine learning algorithms and analysis, adaptive dynamic programming, brain-like networked architectures performing r... https://awkwardsky.github.io/five-dollars/opportunities/grants-gov-358004-cybersecurity-innovation-for-cyberinfrastructure-cici.html Grants.gov:Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI):01/20/2027 The objective of the Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI) program is to advance scientific discovery and innovation by enhancing the security and privacy of cyberinfrastructure. CICI supports efforts to develop, deploy and integrate cybersecurity that will benefit the broader scientific community by securing science data, computation, collaborations workflows, and infrastructure. CICI recognizes the unique nature of modern, complex, data-driven, distributed, rapid, and coll... https://awkwardsky.github.io/five-dollars/opportunities/grants-gov-320753-science-of-learning-and-augmented-intelligence-sl.html Grants.gov:Science of Learning and Augmented Intelligence (SL):02/10/2027 Science of Learning and Augmented Intelligence (SL) supports potentially transformative research that develops basic theoretical insights and fundamental knowledge about principles, processes and mechanisms of learning, and about augmented intelligence - how human cognitive function can be augmented through interactions with others or with technology, or through variations in context. The program supports research addressing learning in individuals and in groups, across a wide range of domain... https://awkwardsky.github.io/five-dollars/opportunities/grants-gov-359003-advancing-bioinformatics-translational-bioinformatics-and-computationa.html Grants.gov:Advancing Bioinformatics, Translational Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Research (R01 Clinical Trial Optional):03/05/2029 The National Library of Medicine (NLM) seeks applications for research projects that drive groundbreaking innovation and advanced development in the fields of bioinformatics, translational bioinformatics, and computational biology. The primary goal of this initiative is to support the creation and implementation of cutting-edge methods, tools, and approaches that can transform the landscape of biomedical data science. This NOFO aims to address the growing need to leverage transformative techn... https://awkwardsky.github.io/five-dollars/opportunities/grants-gov-325932-united-states-military-academy-broad-agency-announcement.html Grants.gov:UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY Broad Agency Announcement:03/31/2027 The U.S. Military Academy at West Point's mission is "to educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to the values of Duty, Honor, Country and prepared for a career of professional excellence and service to the Nation as an officer in the United States Army." The United States Military Academy is located at West Point, New York. USMA executes research to enhance the education of cadets, develop the faculty professionall... https://awkwardsky.github.io/five-dollars/opportunities/grants-gov-362173-cooperative-agreement-for-affiliated-partner-with-the-gulf-coast-coope.html Grants.gov:Cooperative Agreement for Affiliated Partner with the Gulf Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU):05/30/2026 The USGS is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research on the utility of the Skydio Dock for X10 to (1) fly remotely beyond visual line of site (BVLOS), (2) collect image velocimetry (IV) data, (3) upload IV data via the Skydio Cloud and satellite communications (SatComms), and (4) develop a workflow for processing camera imagery to compute IV-derived discharge.The cost to operate stream gages in gage-poor or hard-to-access basins is both costly and a potential safety risk.... https://awkwardsky.github.io/five-dollars/opportunities/grants-gov-361926-secure-innovation-advancing-artificial-intelligence-cybersecurity-and.html Grants.gov:Secure Innovation: Advancing Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, and Digital Resilience in Argentina:05/31/2026 U.S. Embassy Buenos Aires announces an open competition to promote innovation, cybersecurity, and responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption in Argentina. This program will equip entrepreneurs, students, and small businesses with practical tools and knowledge based on U.S. technological standards, strengthening economic resilience, protecting intellectual property, and fostering open and secure digital ecosystems. Applicants are encouraged to propose scalable models and sustainable par... https://awkwardsky.github.io/five-dollars/opportunities/grants-gov-361927-public-diplomacy-section-praia-small-grants-program.html Grants.gov:Public Diplomacy Section Praia: Small Grants Program:06/19/2026 As the United States commemorates 250 years of independence through the America250 and Freedom250 initiatives, the U.S. Department of State's U.S. Embassy Praia announces an open competition to celebrate this historic milestone while advancing core U.S. foreign policy priorities in Cabo Verde. This initiative promotes democratic governance, inclusive economic growth, and strengthened bilateral partnerships through interactive programming highlighting American excellence in innovation, educati... https://awkwardsky.github.io/five-dollars/opportunities/grants-gov-362624-u-s-mission-uae-pds-annual-program-statement.html Grants.gov:U.S. Mission UAE PDS Annual Program Statement:07/15/2026 The Public Diplomacy Section (PDS) at U.S. Mission UAE invites results-oriented proposals for programs that foster economic opportunities for U.S. businesses, investors, and innovators, and showcase American leadership and excellence in science, technology, culture, arts, sports, culinary diplomacy, artificial intelligence (AI), and health. The purpose is to strengthen ties between the United States and the United Arab Emirates in ways that make America safer, stronger, and more prosperous an...