NASA ROSES-17 Amendment 48: D.8 SAT text changes and NOIs Required
ROSES-17 Amendment 48: This amendment changes the proposal submission process for D.8 the Strategic Astrophysics Technology (SAT) program to make Notices of Intent (NOI) mandatory. Proposals that are not preceded by an NOI maybe returned without review.
Over the next decade and beyond, NASA’s Astrophysics Division expects to undertake space flight missions that will explore the nature of the universe at its largest scales, its earliest moments, and its most extreme conditions; missions that will study how galaxies and stars formed and evolved to shape the universe we see today; and missions that will search and characterize the planets and planetary systems orbiting other stars. To enable implementation of these missions, the NASA Science Mission Directorate’s Astrophysics Division has established the Strategic Astrophysics Technology (SAT) program to support the maturation of key technologies from the point where feasibility has already been demonstrated (i.e., TRL 3), to the point at which they are feasible for implementation in space flight strategic missions (TRL 6-7).
This amendment changes the proposal submission process for this program element to make Notices of Intent (NOIs) mandatory. Proposals that are not preceded by an NOI may be returned without review. The due date for mandatory NOIs is January 25, 2018. The due date for proposals is March 15, 2018. This amendment also notes that, in order to rapidly advance key technologies for future large strategic missions ahead of the next decadal survey, NASA selected a large set of SAT-2016 proposals. This has significantly reduced the funding available for new selections in SAT-2017. Only proposed investigations critical to be started at this time are likely to be selected. In addition, a number of small changes have been made to the text. New text is in bold, deleted text is struck through.
On or about November 16, 2017, this Amendment to the NASA Research Announcement “Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) 2017” (NNH17ZDA001N) will be posted on the NASA research opportunity homepage at http://nspires.nasaprs.com/ and will appear on the RSS feed at: https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/grant-solicitations/roses-2017/
The NASA points of contact for the three science program areas are listed at the end of the D.8 SAT text in the summary table of key information.
