NSF TIP Quarterly Report

The National Science Foundations (NSF) newly established Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP) sent out their first quarterly newsletter. The newsletter is intended to update the community on existing investments, new initiatives/funding opportunities, events, job opportunities and more.

TIP was established earlier this year to catalyze innovation and research in emerging technologies and encourage collaboration across disciplines and sectors to address pivotal challenges facing our country and maintain our country’s competitive edge in the technology sphere.

A couple highlights from this weeks newsletter include:

• Last week President Biden signed into law the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, which officially authorizes the TIP directorate.
• NSF Regional Innovation Engines, or NSF Engines, program published nearly 700 concept outlines spanning all 50 states and four U.S. territories on an interactive map and collaboration tool. The published concept outlines represent all the regional teams that are advancing to the next step as outlined in the program’s funding opportunity.
• A call for abstracts for the Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Prize Challenge. (previously talked about in this CCC blog post)
• TIP’s Convergence Accelerator 2022 Expo. You are invited to access the virtual environment to see project details by registering and using your email to sign into the event.

If you would like to keep up with what TIP is working on and learn more about their projects you can subscribe to their newsletter here.

Lastly, they encouraged feedback about TIP’s mission and vision, their programs, or about their communications by reaching out to them directly at beta-nsf-feedback@nsf.gov.