The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is offering a grant opportunity titled "Civil Infrastructure Systems" aimed at supporting innovative research in the design, operation, and management of civil infrastructure. This program seeks to advance fundamental research that contributes to the development of smart, sustainable, and resilient communities, focusing on the interactions within civil infrastructure systems, including transportation, power, and water systems. The NSF encourages proposals that explore novel system designs, integration, big data analytics, and socio-technological connections, while emphasizing that research should not primarily focus on individual infrastructure components. Interested applicants can find more information and contact NSF grants.gov support at grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov, with the opportunity currently posted and set to be archived on June 7, 2025.

The Civil Infrastructure Systems (CIS) program supports fundamental and innovative research in the design, operation and management of civil infrastructure that contributes to creating smart, sustainable and resilient communities at local, national and international scales. This program focuses on civil infrastructure as a system in which interactions between spatially- and functionally- distributed components and intersystem connections exist. All critical civil infrastructure systems are of interest, including transportation, power, water, pipelines and others. The CIS program encourages potentially disruptive ideas that will open new frontiers and significantly broaden and transform relevant research communities. The program particularly welcomes research that addresses novel system and service design, system integration, big data analytics, and socio-technological-infrastructure connections. The program values diverse theoretical, scientific, mathematical, or computational contributions from a broad set of disciplines. While component-level, subject-matter knowledge may be crucial in many research efforts, the program does not support research with a primary contribution pertaining to individual infrastructure components such as materials, sensor technology, extreme event analysis, human factors, climate modeling, structural, geotechnical, hydrologic or environmental engineering.

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