Wave-Based Computing Research and Innovation Emerging Frontiers Service
- Client
- Washington, DC
- RFP Number
- EXTRA-74918
- Posted
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- Category
- Professional, Consulting, Administrative or Management Support Services
- Budget
- Looking for Proposals
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Description
AI GeneratedThe government authority in Washington, DC, requires a vendor to provide wave-based computing research and innovation emerging frontiers services. The buyer needs wave-based computational accelerators to replace digital computing and operate alongside traditional programmable digital computers. Requested scope includes miniaturized chiplets and chip-scale integration to design and demonstrate compact integrated devices for advanced information processing. The scope also encompasses multiplexed architectures for compact parallel computing utilizing metasurfaces, integrated photonics, transducer-based systems, or other scalable approaches. Additionally, the vendor must perform heterogeneous integration across multistage and multilevel platforms, which may involve combining different media and integrating multiple frequency regimes. The buyer restricts eligibility to USA organizations only. The vendor will perform all work offsite. The buyer is currently looking for proposals and provides no specific budget amount or key dates in the supplied text.
Key solicitation details
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The National Science Foundation is soliciting proposals for foundational and transformative research to advance Wave-Based Computing across two tracks. Funding includes Track 1 EAGER awards up to $400,000 over two years and Track 2 multidisciplinary awards up to $2,000,000 over four years. Eligible organizations include U.S. accredited Institutions of Higher Education and U.S. non-profit, non-academic organizations.
- Issued by
- U.S. National Science Foundation
- Informational Webinar
- October 2026
- Concept Outline deadline (FY 2027 cycle)
- November 19, 2026
- Full Proposal Deadline (FY 2027)
- February 11, 2027 by 5 p.m. submitting organization's local time
- Concept Outline deadline (FY 2028 cycle)
- November 16, 2027
- Full Proposal Deadline (FY 2028)
- February 10, 2028 by 5 p.m. submitting organization's local time
- How to submit
- Electronic via email (Concept Outline) and Research.gov (Full Proposal)
- Submission details
- Concept Outlines emailed to [email protected]. Full proposals submitted as a single proposal with subawards via Research.gov; separately submitted collaborative proposals are returned without review.
- Contract term
- Track 1: up to 2 years; Track 2: 4 years
- Estimated value
- $30,000,000 total ($15,000,000 per fiscal year)
- Place of performance
- Offsite
- Funding
- CFDA 47.041 - Engineering, CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences, CFDA 47.084 - NSF Technology, Innovation and Partnerships; 2 CFR 200
How proposals are evaluated
| Intellectual Merit | |
| Broader Impacts | |
| Thrusts | |
| Transformative | |
| National Need | |
| Mentoring Plan | |
| Effectiveness of the proposed Management Plan (Track 2) |
Scope of work
- Multiplexed architectures for compact parallel computing using metasurfaces, integrated photonics, or transducer-based systems
- High-order nonlinear processes using new materials and devices for increased computational throughput
- Reconfigurable photonic and acoustic devices using metasurfaces or phase-change materials
- Hybrid wave-quantum computing integrating quantum light sources, detectors, and nonlinear elements
- Topological and quantum system concepts leveraged in wave-based computing platforms
- Miniaturized chiplets and chip-scale integration for advanced information processing
- Heterogeneous integration combining different media and integrating multiple frequency regimes
- Proof-of-concept system-level testbeds validating wave-based computing designs and algorithms
Minimum qualifications
- Two- and four-year U.S.-accredited Institutions of Higher Education or U.S. non-profit non-academic organizations
- Lead PI from IHE must be full-time, tenured or tenure-track faculty
- Lead PI from non-profit organization must have a continuing appointment expected to last full award term with substantial research responsibilities
- Either the PI or one co-PI must have a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty appointment within a College/Department of Engineering
- Track 2 proposals require a minimum of one PI and two co-PIs
- Individuals limited to participating as PI or co-PI on a maximum of one proposal per fiscal year
Documents to include with the bid
- Concept Outline Program Officer Concurrence Email
- Project Summary (maximum one page)
- Project Description (maximum 8 pages for Track 1; maximum 15 pages for Track 2)
- Mentoring Plan (maximum one page)
- Data Management and Sharing Plan (maximum two pages)
- List of key personnel (maximum three pages)
- Mechanisms for sharing outcomes (maximum two pages)
- PowerPoint Slide summarizing vision
- Management Plan for Track 2 (maximum three pages)
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