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NSF program ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES & INSTRM (121800): 61 awards, $40.6M to 40 organizations
61 NSF awards ($40.6M) under the program element ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES & INSTRM (121800) to 40 organizations, fiscal years 2022 to 2026, read 2026-11-03.
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- Program element code
- 121800
- Directorate
- Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences
- Division
- Astronomical Science Section
Awards
61 awards in the window.
| Award | Agency | Institute or division | Fiscal year | Amount in window | Start | End | Principal investigator | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MRI: Development of an Exoplanet Imaging Spectrograph for Keck Observatory | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2022 | $3,052,322 | September 1, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Stephanie E Sallum | nsf.gov |
| Equipment: MRI: Track 2 - Development of an ultra-high precision wavelength-calibration system for the Large Binocular Telescope | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2024 | $2,725,305 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Jonathan Crass | nsf.gov |
| Charge Quantizing CCDs Optimized for Astronomy | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2023 | $1,482,618 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2027 | Roger M Smith | nsf.gov |
| MRI: Track 1 Development of Multi-Spectral Band Advances for the CHARA Array | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2025 | $1,385,600 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Gail H Schaefer | nsf.gov |
| An agile multi-frequency VLBI receiver for the South Pole Telescope | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2024 | $1,277,558 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Amy E Lowitz | nsf.gov |
| CASPER: Digital Instrumentation for Radio Astronomy | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2023 | $1,194,180 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Jonathon Kocz | nsf.gov |
| CASPER: Enabling Discovery Through Open Source Digital Instrumentation for the Radio Astronomy Community | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2026 | $1,190,730 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Jerrold D Werthimer | nsf.gov |
| The Henrietta Project | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2022 | $1,077,833 | September 1, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Nicholas P Konidaris | nsf.gov |
| LIVE: Pioneering visible-light ELT-scale imaging at the LBT | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2025 | $999,839 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Jacob Isbell | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: NSF-BSF The Sephira Project | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2026 | $980,286 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Nicholas P Konidaris | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Low-noise high electron mobility transistors with outstanding noise performance via atomic layer etching | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2025 | $928,455 | October 1, 2025 | September 30, 2028 | Austin J Minnich | nsf.gov |
| Upgrading the MKID Exoplanet Camera for Subaru SCExAO | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2024 | $881,843 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Benjamin A Mazin | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: COLIMATE: An On-Chip Spectrometer Array for Multi-Line Intensity Mapping Cosmology | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2026 | $877,411 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Clarence L Chang | nsf.gov |
| An Agile, Global Observing Platform for Federating Heterogeneous and Multimodal Facilities at Constellation Scale | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2026 | $873,561 | August 15, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | Daniel E Reichart | nsf.gov |
| Enabling Novel Anti-Reflection Coatings for Millimeter and Submillimeter-Wave Astrophysics | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2022 | $859,626 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2026 | Shaul Hanany | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: RUI: ZEUS-3D - Upgrading the Redshift(z) and Early Universe Spectrometer to Trace Accretion from the Cosmic Web | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2026 | $840,481 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | Gordon J Stacey | nsf.gov |
| Imaging Habitable-Zone Exoplanets With a Quadruple Annular Groove Phase Mask Coronagraph | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2024 | $836,687 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Kevin R Wagner | nsf.gov |
| Multiple Aperture Grating Pattern Inscription Engine (MAGPIE) for ion-plasma etched large-area astronomical diffraction gratings | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2024 | $827,593 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Hanshin Lee | nsf.gov |
| Liger: Initiating Fabrication of Next Generation Keck Imager and Spectrograph | NSF | Division Of Astronomical Sciences | 2023 | $799,842 | April 1, 2023 | June 30, 2024 | Shelley A Wright | nsf.gov |
| OMAyA - a 1mm wavelength focal-plane array receiver for the Large Millimeter Telescope | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2023 | $794,474 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2027 | Gopal Narayanan | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: RUI: Integral Field Unit Speckle Imager | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2022 | $687,253 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Marsha J Wolf | nsf.gov |
| Advancing Adaptive Optics into the Visible for Black Hole Science | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2025 | $678,244 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Jessica R Lu | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: A Tunable Astrophotonic Spectrometer with Adaptive Faint-Source Extraction | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2022 | $672,384 | September 1, 2022 | June 30, 2026 | Kevin Bundy | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: A reliable electro-optic astrocomb with 350-1000 nm coverage enabled by nonlinear nanophotonics | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2024 | $653,127 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Scott A Diddams | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: A reliable electro-optic astrocomb with 350-1000 nm coverage enabled by nonlinear nanophotonics | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2024 | $650,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Alireza Marandi | nsf.gov |
| Advancing adaptive secondary mirrors for astronomy | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2026 | $645,379 | August 15, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | Mark R Chun | nsf.gov |
| A New Approach for Fabricating Large Format Deformable Mirrors | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2023 | $597,604 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2026 | Philip Hinz | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Developing optimally customized-mode-selective photonic lanterns to enable the characterization of hundreds of exoplanets on solar system. | NSF | Division Of Astronomical Sciences | 2023 | $586,081 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2025 | Nemanja Jovanovic | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: RUI: ZEUS-3D - Upgrading the Redshift(z) and Early Universe Spectrometer to Trace Accretion from the Cosmic Web | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2026 | $570,326 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | Carl D Ferkinhoff | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Enabling direct imaging radio telescopes and precision cosmology with pyFHD | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2024 | $570,112 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Bryna J Hazelton | nsf.gov |
| Measurement, Simulation, and Mitigation of the Impact of Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellite Constellations on Wide-Field Optical Surveys | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2022 | $564,958 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2026 | John A Tyson | nsf.gov |
| Quantum interferometry with Arrays of Small Telescopes | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2025 | $561,949 | August 15, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | Philip D Mauskopf | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: RUI: Integral Field Unit Speckle Imager | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2022 | $542,317 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2026 | Elliott P Horch | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Advanced Digital Calibrators for 21cm Cosmology | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2025 | $528,905 | August 1, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | Laura Newburgh | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: High Contrast Imaging at the Photon Noise Limit: On-Sky Validation of Speckle Reconstruction from WFS Telemetry | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2023 | $520,894 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Jared R Males | nsf.gov |
| New Interference Detection, Mitigation, and Fusion Methodologies for Radio Astronomy | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2023 | $510,811 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Natalia A Schmid | nsf.gov |
| Next Generation Radio Telescope Calibration | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2022 | $509,534 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Miguel F Morales | nsf.gov |
| Development of a Sub-Kelvin Testbed for Characterization of On-Chip Far-Infrared Integrated Spectrometers | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2024 | $497,849 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Michael B Zemcov | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Deploying the Gemini Planet Imager 2.0: Completion, Commissioning, and Facility Delivery | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2026 | $490,478 | July 1, 2026 | June 30, 2028 | Jeffrey Chilcote | nsf.gov |
| Advancing Autonomous Adaptive Optics and Adaptive Secondary Mirror Technologies | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2025 | $435,843 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Christoph Baranec | nsf.gov |
| Development of a pre-optics module for spectroscopic wavelength splitting and pupil slicing | NSF | Division Of Astronomical Sciences | 2023 | $433,564 | September 1, 2023 | June 30, 2025 | Samuel C Barden | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: RUI: NSF-BSF The Sephira Project | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2026 | $427,561 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Elliott P Horch | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Tunable Dual-Polarization Photonic Ring Resonator Filters for OH-Suppressed Ground-Based Infrared Astronomy | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2025 | $414,907 | October 1, 2025 | September 30, 2027 | Kyler Kuehn | nsf.gov |
| Towards Ideal Adaptive Optics Performance with Focal-plane Wavefront Sensing | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2024 | $388,823 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2027 | Charlotte E Guthery | nsf.gov |
| REDWOODS: A hybrid wavefront sensor / science camera to demonstrate extreme exoplanet imaging at Lick observatory | NSF | Division Of Astronomical Sciences | 2024 | $366,995 | September 1, 2024 | February 28, 2025 | Benjamin L Gerard | nsf.gov |
| REDWOODS: A hybrid wavefront sensor / science camera to demonstrate extreme exoplanet imaging at Lick observatory | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2025 | $366,995 | February 15, 2025 | August 31, 2026 | Philip Hinz | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: WoU-MMA: Optimal Follow-up for Multimessenger Astronomy | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2023 | $341,248 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Niharika Sravan | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Advanced Digital Calibrators for 21cm Cosmology | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2025 | $321,340 | August 1, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | Kevin Bandura | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: COLIMATE: An On-Chip Spectrometer Array for Multi-Line Intensity Mapping Cosmology | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2026 | $313,253 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Kirit S Karkare | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Low-noise high electron mobility transistors with outstanding noise performance via atomic layer etching | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2025 | $289,704 | October 1, 2025 | September 30, 2028 | James R Renzas | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: High Contrast Imaging at the Photon Noise Limit: On-Sky Validation of Speckle Reconstruction from WFS Telemetry | NSF | Division Of Astronomical Sciences | 2023 | $238,354 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2025 | Richard Frazin | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Developing optimally customized-mode-selective photonic lanterns to enable the characterization of hundreds of exoplanets on solar system. | NSF | Division Of Astronomical Sciences | 2023 | $226,078 | September 1, 2023 | September 30, 2025 | Michael P Fitzgerald | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Deploying the Gemini Planet Imager 2.0: Completion, Commissioning, and Facility Delivery | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2026 | $207,147 | July 1, 2026 | June 30, 2028 | Dmitry Savransky | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: A Tunable Astrophotonic Spectrometer with Adaptive Faint-Source Extraction | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2022 | $188,000 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2026 | Aaron R Hawkins | nsf.gov |
| Graduate Student Participation and CCD Procurement for the Original PolyOculus Array | NSF | Division Of Astronomical Sciences | 2022 | $173,438 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2024 | Stephen Eikenberry | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: WoU-MMA: Optimal Follow-up for Multimessenger Astronomy | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2023 | $160,476 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Matthew Graham | nsf.gov |
| RAPID: Antarctic Deployment of Cryoscope | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2025 | $141,811 | October 15, 2024 | March 31, 2027 | Roger M Smith | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Tunable Dual-Polarization Photonic Ring Resonator Filters for OH-Suppressed Ground-Based Infrared Astronomy | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2025 | $74,036 | October 1, 2025 | September 30, 2027 | Robert Kehoe | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Enabling direct imaging radio telescopes and precision cosmology with pyFHD | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2024 | $64,032 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Daniel C Jacobs | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: RUI: Enabling direct imaging radio telescopes and precision cosmology with pyFHD | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2024 | $53,103 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Adam P Beardsley | nsf.gov |
| Conference: Workshop on LEO satellite impacts on ground-based optical astronomy: LSST | NSF | Division Of Astronomical Sciences | 2025 | $49,841 | April 1, 2025 | September 30, 2025 | John A Tyson | nsf.gov |
Organizations
Funding by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | NIH awards | NIH amount | NSF awards | NSF amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | $0 | 13 | $7,606,532 |
| 2025 | 0 | $0 | 18 | $8,724,387 |
| 2024 | 0 | $0 | 15 | $8,598,535 |
| 2023 | 0 | $0 | 14 | $7,814,601 |
| 2022 | 0 | $0 | 10 | $7,489,948 |
Open federal funding opportunities
From Grants.gov: notices that funded awards in this table, and open notices on the same agency and assistance listing.
| Open opportunity | Number | Agency | Listing | Closes | Award ceiling | Why it matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geometric Analysis | PD-22-1265 | NSF | 47.049 | November 3, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 61 awards here |
| Topology | PD-22-1267 | NSF | 47.049 | November 3, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 61 awards here |
| Unlocking Dataset Value for AI-Enabled Scientific Discovery (AI Datasets) | 26-512 | NSF | 47.049 | November 4, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 61 awards here |
| Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Grants | 22-624 | NSF | 47.049 | November 16, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 61 awards here |
| Applied Mathematics | PD-16-1266 | NSF | 47.049 | November 16, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 61 awards here |
| Plasma Physics | PD-23-1242 | NSF | 47.049 | November 16, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 61 awards here |
| National Science Foundation Translation to Practice (NSF TTP) | 25-540 | NSF | 47.049 | November 17, 2026 | $2 million | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 61 awards here |
| Computational Mathematics | PD-16-1271 | NSF | 47.049 | December 1, 2026 | $1.2 million | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 61 awards here |
| Statistics | PD-18-1269 | NSF | 47.049 | December 15, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 61 awards here |
| Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 23-520 | NSF | 47.049 | January 21, 2027 | $1 million | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 61 awards here |
| Security, Privacy, and Trust in Cyberspace (NSF SaTC) | 25-515 | NSF | 47.049 | January 25, 2027 | $1.2 million | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 61 awards here |
| EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (FEC) | 24-573 | NSF | 47.049 | January 26, 2027 | $1.5 million | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 61 awards here |
| Mathematical Sciences Infrastructure Program | PD-20-1260 | NSF | 47.049 | February 2, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 61 awards here |
| GROWING CONVERGENCE RESEARCH (GCR) | 24-527 | NSF | 47.049 | February 8, 2027 | $3.6 million | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 61 awards here |
| Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 | 24-598 | NSF | 47.049 | February 8, 2027 | $20 million | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 61 awards here |
| EMERGING FRONTIERS IN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION (EFRI-2026/27): Wave-Based Computing ( EFRI-WBC) | 26-524 | NSF | 47.049 | February 11, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 61 awards here |
| Pathways to Enable Secure Open-Source Ecosystems (PESOSE) | 26-506 | NSF | 47.049 | March 2, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 61 awards here |
| NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NQVL) | 24-586 | NSF | 47.049 | April 6, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 61 awards here |
| EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII): EPSCoR Research Fellows | 24-528 | NSF | 47.049 | April 13, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 61 awards here |
| Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable Open Science (FAIROS) | 25-533 | NSF | 47.049 | April 14, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 61 awards here |
Updated November 3, 2026. Read from NIH RePORTER ExPORTER and NSF Award Search. Published by NIH and NSF as U.S. government data. NIH awards are fiscal years 2021 to 2025 (NIH files published to 2026-07-09); NSF awards are fiscal years 2022 to 2026 (NSF files published to 2026-11-02). NIH amounts are the total cost of each fiscal year in the window; NSF amounts are the funds obligated in the window. Organizations are matched on the UEI. Open opportunities come from Grants.gov and match on agency and assistance listing number, and on the notice number NIH prints on an award. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.