Alaska NASA Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research is starting a white paper process for this year's Cooperative Agreement Notice solicitation. The CAN solicitation is expected from NASA in early December.

Alaska NASA EPSCoR is allowed to submit one proposal to this call. To prepare for the solicitation release, Alaska NASA EPSCoR will ask interested principal investigators to submit a notice of intent and a pre-proposal for review. A review process will take place to determine the proposal that Alaska NASA EPSCoR will submit.

Please see the Alaska NASA EPSCoR website for the pre-proposal solicitation and more information.

Proposals may be submitted for a maximum award of $750,000 for a three-year period of performance. There is a 2:1 NASA requested funds to match funds requirement.

A notice of intent is due Oct. 13, 2020. Pre-proposals are due Nov. 13, 2020.

The following are the specific objectives of NASA EPSCoR:

• Contribute to and promote the development of research infrastructure in NASA EPSCoR jurisdictions in areas of strategic importance to the NASA mission.


• Improve the capabilities of the NASA EPSCoR jurisdictions to gain support from sources outside the NASA EPSCoR program.


• Develop partnerships between NASA research assets, academic institutions and industry.


• Contribute to the overall research infrastructure, science and technology capabilities, higher education, and/or economic development of the jurisdiction.


• Work in close coordination with Space Grant to improve the environment for science, technology, engineering and mathematics education in the jurisdiction.