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Critical Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Systems and Processes
This CRISP 2. 0 solicitation responds both to national needs on the resilience of critical infrastructures and to increasing NSF emphasis on transdisciplinary research.
In this context, the solicitation is one element of the NSF-wide Risk and Resilience activity, with the overarching goal of advancing knowledge in support of improvement of the nation’s infrastructure resilience.The devastating effects of recent disasters such as Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria have underscored that a great deal remains to be done.In addition, CRISP 2. 0 is aligned with the NSF-wide frontier thinking on convergence, characterized as “deep integration of knowledge, techniques, and expertise from multiple fields to form new and expanded frameworks for addressing scientific and societal challenges and opportunities”.
The Directorate of Engineering and the Directorate of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences therefore jointly invest in the CRISP 2. 0 solicitation to stimulate the integration of engineering, and social, behavioral and economic sciences to foster new paradigms and domains in interdependent critical infrastructures.
Critical infrastructures are the mainstay of our nation's economy, security and well-being.
They provide essential services through systems and processes.
Many of the critical infrastructures are interconnected and even interdependent.
This solicitation calls for integrated research on Interdependent Critical Infrastructures (ICIs) by interdisciplinary teams of engineers and social, behavioral, and economic scientists.
Research funded through this program is expected to provide the momentum to create a new science of integrative designs in ICIs, to stimulate economic growth, and to inform how communities can engage diverse resources to improve the quality of life for their inhabitants.
Infrastructures are networks of systems and processes that function cooperatively and synergistically to produce and distribute a continuous flow of essential goods and services.
For this competition, two or more infrastructures are said to be interdependent if they require each other’s services or if the processes by which they deliver services can be affected by each other.
The goals of the Critical Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Systems and Processes 2. 0 (CRISP 2. 0) solicitation are to:
(1) foster an interdisciplinary research community of engineers and social, behavioral, and economic (SBE)scientists who work synergistically together for innovation in the design and management of infrastructures as processes and services; (2) transform relevant fields by re-thinking ICIs as processes and services that may have complementary and/or substitutional roles with each other; (3) create innovations in ICIs that contribute directly and positively to people’s quality of life, spur economic growth, and respond to both internal perturbations and external shocks, regardless of whether they are natural, technological or human-induced.
These goals lead to the following specific objectives for this solicitation:
<ul> <li>To generate new knowledge, approaches, and solutions to resilience and improve the capability of existing and future ICIs to respond to internal and external changes;</li> <li>To create innovative, theoretical frameworks and multidisciplinary models of ICIs, processes and services, capable of modeling, monitoring, and predicting complex behaviors and outcomes in response to both internal and external shocks;</li> <li>To develop integrative frameworks to understand interdependencies among ICIs and leverage them to enhance the processes and services that ICIs provide;</li> <li>To study socioeconomic, cultural, political, legal, and psychological and other obstacles to improving ICIs and to identify strategies for overcoming these obstacles; and</li> <li>To support the creation, curation, and use of publicly accessible data on infrastructure systems and processes, whether in the context of explanation, prediction or modeling.</li> </ul> Successful proposals are expected to study at least two infrastructures which are interdependent in the provision of one or more services, thereby contributing to a new interdisciplinary paradigm in research on ICIs.
Proposals must broadly integrate engineering and social, behavioral and/or economic sciences.
Therefore, proposals that do not have at least one social, behavioral, andeconomic (SBE) scientist and one engineer on the team will be returned without review.
Additionally, PIs are also encouraged to incorporate complementary perspectives from other disciplines such as computing and data science, ecology, seismology, and statistics.
See Section X, Appendix for frequently asked questions (FAQs).
In this context, the solicitation is one element of the NSF-wide Risk and Resilience activity, with the overarching goal of advancing knowledge in support of improvement of the nation’s infrastructure resilience.The devastating effects of recent disasters such as Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria have underscored that a great deal remains to be done.In addition, CRISP 2. 0 is aligned with the NSF-wide frontier thinking on convergence, characterized as “deep integration of knowledge, techniques, and expertise from multiple fields to form new and expanded frameworks for addressing scientific and societal challenges and opportunities”.
The Directorate of Engineering and the Directorate of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences therefore jointly invest in the CRISP 2. 0 solicitation to stimulate the integration of engineering, and social, behavioral and economic sciences to foster new paradigms and domains in interdependent critical infrastructures.
Critical infrastructures are the mainstay of our nation's economy, security and well-being.
They provide essential services through systems and processes.
Many of the critical infrastructures are interconnected and even interdependent.
This solicitation calls for integrated research on Interdependent Critical Infrastructures (ICIs) by interdisciplinary teams of engineers and social, behavioral, and economic scientists.
Research funded through this program is expected to provide the momentum to create a new science of integrative designs in ICIs, to stimulate economic growth, and to inform how communities can engage diverse resources to improve the quality of life for their inhabitants.
Infrastructures are networks of systems and processes that function cooperatively and synergistically to produce and distribute a continuous flow of essential goods and services.
For this competition, two or more infrastructures are said to be interdependent if they require each other’s services or if the processes by which they deliver services can be affected by each other.
The goals of the Critical Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Systems and Processes 2. 0 (CRISP 2. 0) solicitation are to:
(1) foster an interdisciplinary research community of engineers and social, behavioral, and economic (SBE)scientists who work synergistically together for innovation in the design and management of infrastructures as processes and services; (2) transform relevant fields by re-thinking ICIs as processes and services that may have complementary and/or substitutional roles with each other; (3) create innovations in ICIs that contribute directly and positively to people’s quality of life, spur economic growth, and respond to both internal perturbations and external shocks, regardless of whether they are natural, technological or human-induced.
These goals lead to the following specific objectives for this solicitation:
<ul> <li>To generate new knowledge, approaches, and solutions to resilience and improve the capability of existing and future ICIs to respond to internal and external changes;</li> <li>To create innovative, theoretical frameworks and multidisciplinary models of ICIs, processes and services, capable of modeling, monitoring, and predicting complex behaviors and outcomes in response to both internal and external shocks;</li> <li>To develop integrative frameworks to understand interdependencies among ICIs and leverage them to enhance the processes and services that ICIs provide;</li> <li>To study socioeconomic, cultural, political, legal, and psychological and other obstacles to improving ICIs and to identify strategies for overcoming these obstacles; and</li> <li>To support the creation, curation, and use of publicly accessible data on infrastructure systems and processes, whether in the context of explanation, prediction or modeling.</li> </ul> Successful proposals are expected to study at least two infrastructures which are interdependent in the provision of one or more services, thereby contributing to a new interdisciplinary paradigm in research on ICIs.
Proposals must broadly integrate engineering and social, behavioral and/or economic sciences.
Therefore, proposals that do not have at least one social, behavioral, andeconomic (SBE) scientist and one engineer on the team will be returned without review.
Additionally, PIs are also encouraged to incorporate complementary perspectives from other disciplines such as computing and data science, ecology, seismology, and statistics.
See Section X, Appendix for frequently asked questions (FAQs).
Agency: National Science Foundation
Office: National Science Foundation
Estimated Funding: $13,400,000
Office: National Science Foundation
Estimated Funding: $13,400,000
Obtain Full Opportunity Text:
NSF Publication 18-523
Additional Information of Eligibility:
*Who May Submit Proposals: Proposals may only be submitted by the following: -Universities and Colleges - Universities and two- and four-year colleges (including community colleges) accredited in, and having a campus located in, the US acting on behalf of their faculty members.
Such organizations also are referred to as academic institutions.
*Who May Serve as PI: <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Because this program is meant to support interdisciplinary research, a minimum of two investigators is required per project, including the Principal Investigator (PI) and one or more co-Investigators from the lead or participating institutions.
Persons named as PI or co-PI must be eligible to serve as such on NSF proposals submitted through their respective institutions.
In order to ensure an interdisciplinary approach to studying ICIs, proposals must include and clearly identify at least one PI or co-PI who is a social,behavioral, and economic (SBE)scientist, and one who is an engineer.
Additional co-PIs or senior personnel may be added to cover other interdisciplinary needs of the project.
The appropriateness of the research team's disciplinary composition and expertise should be justified and will be a factor in the merit review of the proposal (see Additional Review Criteria section).</span>
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Date Posted:
2017-12-06
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2018-04-06
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