National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) 2024 Broad Agency Announcement
On behalf of the National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP), the Office of Naval Research (ONR) solicits research proposals under this Broad Agency Announcement (BAA #N0001424SB003). Congress established the NOPP via Title II, subtitle E, of Public Law 104-201 to promote the national goals of ensuring national security, advancing economic development, protecting quality of life, and strengthening science education and communication by improving knowledge of the ocean. Over twenty agencies participate in the NOPP. They are identified on the NOPP website: www.nopp.org.
In this BAA, NOPP participants have identified two (2) ocean research topics of mutual and emerging interest. Selected projects will be awarded and funded by individual agencies. All successful offerors will be notified, and the NOPP office will provide the 2025 NOPP project announcement on its website. Up to $23M over three (3) years may be available for awards under this solicitation, subject to appropriation, availability of funds, and final approval by the participating NOPP agencies. NOPP funding will be dependent on individual participating agency policies, procedures, and regulations. There will be no classified work funded under this announcement.
This publication constitutes a BAA for awards by the ONR Contact and Grants Awards Management Division, ONR Code 25 (or others approved by Code 25), as contemplated in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.102(d)(2) and 35.016 and by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Guide to Research Other Transaction Under 10 U.S.C. 4021 (June 2023) and the Other Transaction Guide version 2.0 dated July 2023.
ONR and the participating agencies reserve the right to fund all, some, or none of the proposals received under this BAA. The Government provides no funding for direct reimbursement of proposal development costs. Technical and cost proposals (or any other material) submitted in response to this BAA will not be returned. It is the policy of ONR to treat all proposals submitted under this BAA as sensitive competitive information and to disclose their contents only for the purposes of evaluation.
RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY DESCRIPTION
Federal Awarding Agency Name:
Office of Naval Research, One Liberty Center
Funding Opportunity Title:
National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) FY2024 Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)
| # | BAA Topic Name | Letters of Intent Due Date | Full Proposal Due Date |
| 1 | A Global Multi-agency Experiment on Internal Wave Energy, Mixing and Interactions in the Ocean and Their Representation in Global Ocean Models and Operational Forecasts | Not Applicable | November 22, 2024 |
| 2 | Low-Cost, Air Deployable 400m Profiling CTD Floats for investigating submesoscale eddies – Design Study and Demonstration | Not Applicable | November 22, 2024 |
NOPP BAA
Status: Open
Posted Date: August 22, 2024
Description: NOPP BAA #N0001424SB003
