Federal Limited Opportunities
Below is a list of upcoming programs with proposal submission restrictions. Please make sure to check each individual opportunity announcement for eligibility, specific deadline and submission information. This is not a comprehensive list of all limited submission proposals, and while this page will be updated regularly, it should be used in conjunction with other grant information resources available from individual funding agency websites. *Important: If a program has a limited submission requirement and you do not see it on the list below, please notify limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu and follow the procedure outlined here.
*Please note that NIH COBRE funding opportunities are most often limited submissions. Please monitor this website and news updates for calls concerning deadlines for which Dartmouth is eligible to apply directly. Notwithstanding, please note that NIH also limits the number of subcontracts that Dartmouth can receive from another COBRE (non-Dartmouth grant). As such, any researcher contemplating participation in a non-Dartmouth COBRE application should also contact the limited email as soon as possible and no later than 30 days prior to the deadline.
NSF 25-544: Integrated Data Systems & Services (IDSS)
Scope. The IDSS program supports national-scale performant operational systems and services that broadly facilitate open, data-intensive and artificial intelligence-driven science and engineering research, innovation, and education. IDSS projects should be aimed to broadly impact the science and engineering research and education community in a transdisciplinary and demonstrably multi-disciplinary way, enabling researchers and educators from diverse domains and disciplines to utilize research data, integrate data, and connect data sources with other scientific resources such as computing resources, facilities, instrumentation and repositories. Projects that aim to primarily benefit a single science discipline, domain, project, or application are not supported.
Proposal categories and descriptions
IDSS offers the following three categories of proposals:
Category I. Development, deployment, and operation of novel national-scale integrated data systems and services, which may include interfacing with or leveraging other existing capabilities, systems and services as appropriate to the project. Between $10 million to $30 million for up to 5 years. Potentially renewable.
Category II. Transition of established smaller scale, regional, pilot, or prototype
data-focused systems and services to national-scale production/operational quality/level.
This may also include enhancement and expansion of existing national-scale data-focused
operational systems and services.
Up to $9 million for up to 3 years. Potentially renewable.
Category III. Planning grants for future potential development/deployment or transition/enhancement
IDSS projects.
Up to $500,000 for up to 2 years. Not renewable.
LIMIT:
Dartmouth is limited to submitting one proposal as lead institution for each of Category I and Category II. The restriction does not apply to Category III proposals.
To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu and indicate Category.
Overview/abstract of proposal (one page maximum)
Total request amount
Curriculum Vitae (CV)/ Biosketch
Use "IDSS" as the email subject line.
Internal Deadline: September 19, 2025
Sponsor Deadline: December 4, 2025
Safety, Security, and Privacy of Open-Source Ecosystems (Safe-OSE)
NSF
The NSF is launching the Safe-OSE program to respond to growing threats to open-source ecosystem safety, security, and privacy. This includes vulnerabilities in code, infrastructure, and socio-technical aspects such as supply chains and insider threats. The program seeks proposals from eligible non-profit, for-profit, government, tribal nations, and higher education organizations based in the U.S. to address these challenges. Funds should be directed toward efforts that improve ecosystem safety, security, and privacy, and organizations must adhere to specific eligibility and ownership control requirements.
LIMIT: Up to two (2) preliminary proposals per lead organization are allowed.
To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu
Overview/abstract of proposal (one page maximum)
Total request amount
Curriculum Vitae (CV)
Use "Safe-OSE" as the email subject line.
Internal Deadline: October 10, 2025
Required Preliminary Proposal to Sponsor: January 13, 2026
Sponsor Deadline: April 28, 2026
Accelerating Research Translation (ART)
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) seeks to increase the scale and pace of advancing discoveries resulting from academic research into tangible solutions that benefit the public. The overarching goal for the Accelerating Research Translation (ART) program is to advance the U.S. scientific and economic leadership by building capacity and increasing the number of robust translational research ecosystems in Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) that span across the full geography of our nation. Innovations can occur anywhere and can be opportunities for creating sustained impacts in every single region of the United States. Achieving translational outcomes as a mechanism to drive sustained economic impacts is the primary aim of the "Accelerating Research Translation" (ART) program.
Led by NSF’s Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP) and in collaboration with other NSF directorates and the Office of Integrative Activities, the ART program seeks proposals involving institutional leadership; research translation programs, institutes or centers; technology transfer offices; units responsible for managing research intellectual property (IP); entrepreneurial training teams; and researchers from all scientific, technological and engineering fields in collaboration with one or more of the other target categories mentioned below. This updated ART solicitation expands and builds upon its previous version, NSF 23-558, by implementing Tracks that address varying stages of capacity to accelerate research translation.
The ART program is aimed at providing resources that will ultimately facilitate a wide range of IHEs to achieve research translation, accelerate technology transfer, and create sustained economic and collective impacts across the U.S. It is understood that, like technology readiness levels (TRLs), there is no one measure or a combination of measures that can be used to describe the capacity of or measure the research translation readiness level (RTRL) for an IHE. Some indicators that reflect on RTRL include volume of sustained basic and applied research as measured by research expenditures, robust technology transfer and entrepreneurship related activities (e.g. invention disclosures, patents, licenses, royalties, partnerships with industry, non-profits etc.). Number of start-ups, resources for entrepreneurial and innovation education and training, the presence of a dedicated technology transfer office are also some of the other indicators that reflect on the RTRL.
Limit on Number of Proposals per Organization:
Dartmouth can submit a maximum of one proposal for Track 1 or 2 (but not both).
For Tracks 3, 4, and 5, Dartmouth can submit a maximum of one proposal per Track.
Applicants eligible for Tracks 1 and 2 cannot submit proposals for Tracks 3, 4 and
5 and vice versa.
To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu
Overview/abstract of proposal (one page maximum)
Total request amount
Curriculum Vitae (CV)
Use "ART and Track #" as the email subject line.
Deadlines:
Dartmouth Internal Deadline: Nov. 14, 2025
Sponsor Deadline: Jan. 15, 2026 for Tracks 2 and 5
Sponsor Deadline: March 12, 2026 for Tracks 1, 3 and 4
Collaborative Program Grant for Multidisciplinary Teams (RM1 - Clinical Trial Optional)
NIH/NIGMS
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is designed to support highly integrated research teams of three to six Program Directors/Principal Investigators (PDs/PIs) to address ambitious and challenging research questions that are within the mission of NIGMS. Project goals should not be achievable with a collection of individual efforts or projects. Collaborative program teams are expected to accomplish goals that require considerable synergy and managed team interactions. Teams are encouraged to consider far-reaching objectives that will produce major advances in their fields.
This FOA is not intended for applications that are mainly focused on the creation, expansion, and/or maintenance of community resources, creation of new technologies, or infrastructure development.
NIGMS intends to fund a limited number of applications. Therefore, consultation with relevant staff at least 10 weeks prior to the application due date is strongly encouraged.
Two applications per institution (with a Unique Entity Identifier ) and a unique NIH eRA Institutional Profile File (IPF) number) are allowed per review round.
To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu:
Overview/abstract of proposal (one page maximum)
Total request amount
Curriculum Vitae (CV)
Use "RM1" as the email subject line.
Internal Deadline: January 30, 2026
Sponsor Application Deadline: May 27, 2026