Design Intelligence Fostering Formidable Energy Reduction and Enabling Novel Totally Impactful Advanced Technology Enhancements (DIFFERENTIATE) SBIR/STTR

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Design Intelligence Fostering Formidable Energy Reduction and Enabling Novel Totally Impactful Advanced Technology Enhancements (DIFFERENTIATE) SBIR/STTR: Agency Overview: The Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E), an organization within the Department of Energy (DOE), is chartered by Congress in the America COMPETES Act of 2007 (P.L. 110-69), as amended by the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 (P.L. 111-358) to: “(A) to enhance the economic and energy security of the United States through the development of energy technologies that result in— (i) reductions of imports of energy from foreign sources; (ii) reductions of energy-related emissions, including greenhouse gases; and (iii) improvement in the energy efficiency of all economic sectors; and (B) to ensure that the United States maintains a technological lead in developing and deploying advanced energy technologies.” ARPA-E issues this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) under the programmatic authorizing statute codified at 42 U.S.C. § 16538. The FOA and any awards made under this FOA are subject to 2 C.F.R. Part 200 as amended by 2 C.F.R. Part 910. ARPA-E funds research on and the development of high-potential, high-impact energy technologies that are too early for private-sector investment. The agency focuses on technologies that can be meaningfully advanced with a modest investment over a defined period of time in order to catalyze the translation from scientific discovery to early-stage technology. For the latest news and information about ARPA-E, its programs and the research projects currently supported, see: http://arpa-e.energy.gov/. SBIR/STTR Program Overview: The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs are Government-wide programs authorized under Section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. § 638). The objectives of the SBIR program are to (1) stimulate technological innovation in the private sector, (2) strengthen the role of Small Business Concerns in meeting Federal R&D needs, (3) increase private sector commercialization of innovations derived from Federal R&D activities, (4) foster and encourage participation by socially and economically disadvantaged and women-owned Small Business Concerns, and (5) improve the return on investment from Federally funded research and economic benefits to the Nation. The objective of the STTR program is to stimulate cooperative partnerships of ideas and technologies between Small Business Concerns and partnering Research Institutions through Federally funded R&D activities. ARPA-E administers a joint SBIR/STTR program in accordance with the Small Business Act and the SBIR and STTR Policy Directives issued by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). ARPA-E typically provides SBIR/STTR funding in three phases (Phase I, Phase II, and Phase IIS), but funding for this FOA will be for Phase I and Phase II only. Program Overview and Objectives: The DIFFERENTIATE program seeks to enhance the pace of energy innovation by incorporating machine learning into energy technology development processes. By doing so, this program aims to enhance the productivity of energy engineers in helping them to develop next-generation energy technologies. In order to organize the proposed efforts, a simplified engineering design process framework has been adopted and utilized to identify several general mathematical optimization problems that are common to many (perhaps most) engineering design processes and then to conceptualize several machine learning tools that could help engineers to execute and solve these problems in a manner that dramatically accelerates the pace of energy innovation. In this framework: 1. A problem/challenge is posed (e.g. cost-effectively generate electricity from natural gas at an efficiency in excess of 70%), 2. A potential solution is hypothesized and refined with Reduced Order Models (e.g. fuel cell/engine hybrid systems), 3. The low fidelity concept is further refined and evaluated with high-fidelity partial differential equation-based solvers and/or experiments (e.g. computational fluid dynamics simulations, finite element analyses, full-scale system demonstrations), and 4. The hypothesized solution is updated with knowledge gained during the high-fidelity evaluation process, and iteration continues until either the problem is either solved or deemed insoluble. The objective of the DIFFERENTIATE program is to enhance the pace of energy innovation by accelerating the incorporation of machine learning into the energy technology design process. Specifically, ARPA-E is seeking to develop machine-learning-enhanced— 1. Hypothesis generation (i.e. Conceptual Design) tools, 2. High-fidelity hypothesis evaluation (i.e. Detailed Design) tools, and 3. Inverse design tools. In order to facilitate the achievement of the above-mentioned objective, ARPA-E is issuing this FOA to encourage teams consisting of mathematicians, operations research analysts, computer scientists, energy engineers, and others with applicable skills and experience to jointly work on developing the tools required to enhance the creativity and efficiency (i.e. productivity) of the energy technology design process. To obtain a copy of the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), please go the ARPA-E website at https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov
Federal Grant Title: Design Intelligence Fostering Formidable Energy Reduction and Enabling Novel Totally Impactful Advanced Technology Enhancements (DIFFERENTIATE) SBIR/STTR
Federal Agency Name: Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy (DOE-ARPAE)
Grant Categories: Science and Technology
Type of Opportunity: Discretionary
Funding Opportunity Number: DE-FOA-0002108
Type of Funding: Cooperative Agreement
CFDA Numbers: 81.135
CFDA Descriptions: Information not provided
Current Application Deadline: May 20th, 2019
Original Application Deadline: May 20th, 2019
Posted Date: April 5th, 2019
Creation Date: April 5th, 2019
Archive Date: August 28th, 2020
Total Program Funding: $5,000,000
Maximum Federal Grant Award: $1,933,010
Minimum Federal Grant Award: $252,131
Expected Number of Awards: 3
Cost Sharing or Matching: Yes
Last Updated: April 5th, 2019
Applicants Eligible for this Grant
Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity below), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"
Additional Information on Eligibility
See Section III.A. thru D. of the FOA.
Link to Full Grant Announcement
https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov
Grant Announcement Contact
ARPA-E CO
[email protected]
ARPA-E CO
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