The Office of Science recently released university and laboratory announcements encouraging proposals for the Office of Science Early Career Research Program.  This is the first year of an annual program; it will begin with Recovery Act funds this year and be gradually picked up in all of the Office of Science research programs over time.

Peer review, selection, and award management will be handled in the programs where the technical expertise resides.  Optional letters of intent are due August 3, while full proposals are due September 1.

Please note that the solicitation, review, and award schedules this year are compressed because of the Recovery Act.

The university Funding Opportunity Announcement is posted on Grants.gov under DE-PS02-09ER09-26. (The SC Grants & Contracts office has also posted a short summary of the university FOA: http://www.sc.doe.gov/grants/FAPN09-26.html)

The DOE national laboratory announcement is posted on the SC Grants & Contracts website:
http://www.sc.doe.gov/grants/LAB09_26.html

This is an SC-wide program with common rules for every program office.  If there are questions about program rules, eligibility, or anything else, please direct those inquiries to the following address: early.career@science.doe.gov.  Technical questions can be sent to the program contacts listed in the announcement.

The objective the ECPI program is to stimulate academic research in scientific areas of interest to ASCR programs, especially among faculty in the early stages of their academic profession.  The specific research areas of interest to ASCR include the following: applied mathematics, computer science, computational science and high-performance networks.