WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 -- The National Science Foundation announced that it expects to award up to 13 discretionary grants for the Signals in the Soil Program. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $13 million with a ceiling of $1.2 million for each award in the program. The agency said the grant was associated with science and technology and other research and development. The funding is open to state, county, city, township and special district governments; independent scho more ST

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 -- The U.S. Agency for International Development announced that it expects to award a cooperative agreement for the increase of transparency and accountability and effectively reduce corruption in Colombia. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $19 million. The funding is open to state, county, city, township and special district governments; independent school districts; private, public and state controlled institutions of higher education; Native Amer more ST

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration announced that it expects to award up to four cooperative agreements for research and development of transit bus operator compartment designs. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $2 million with a ceiling of $1 million for each award in the program. The agency said the grant was associated with transportation. The funding is open to state, county, city, township and special dist more ST

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science announced that it expects to award up to two cooperative agreements for research to enable fuels from sunlight. The award ceiling for this funding opportunity is $20 million. The agency said the grant was associated with science and technology and other research and development. The funding is open to state, county, city, township and special district governments; independent school districts; private, public and state co more ST

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families announced that it expects to award up to 27 discretionary grants for relationship education, parenting and job and career advancement activities. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $24 million with a ceiling of $1.5 million for each award in the program. The agency said the grant was associated with income security and social services. The funding is open to more ST

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that it expects to award up to 20 discretionary grants for research to prevent firearm-related violence and injuries. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $24 million with a ceiling of $650,000 for each award in the program. The agency said the grant was associated with health. The funding is open to state, county, city, township and special distri more ST

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management announced that it expects to award up to five cooperative agreements for wildlife resource management in Utah. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $250,000 with a ceiling of $150,000 for each award in the program.The agency said the grant was associated with natural resources. The funding is open to state, county, city, township and special district governments; independent school dist more ST

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it expects to award a discretionary grant for research on black duck ecology. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $360,000. The agency said the grant was associated with natural resources. The funding is open to state, county, city, township and special district governments; independent school districts; private, public and state controlled institutions of higher ed more ST

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy announced that it expects to award up to 17 cooperative agreements for the development of technologies required to rehabilitate cast iron, wrought iron and bare steel natural gas distribution pipes. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $38.5 million with a ceiling of $10 million for each award in the program. The agency said the grant was associated with science and technology a more ST

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families announced that it expects to award up to 68 discretionary grants for activities to promote responsible fatherhood. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $60,061,000 with a ceiling of $1.5 million for each award in the program. The agency said the grant was associated with income security and social services. The funding is open to state, county, city, township  more ST

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration announced that it expects to award up to four cooperative agreements for demonstrations and evaluation of innovative technologies to improve rail transit safety. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $7.3 million. The agency said the grant was associated with transportation. The funding is open to state, county, city, township and special district governments; independent school d more ST

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture announced that it expects to award a discretionary grant for food safety training, education and technical assistance projects. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $8 million.The agency said the grant was associated with agriculture. The funding is open to the cooperative extension service for a U.S. state or territory; non-government organizations and/or community base more ST

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Food and Drug Administration announced that it expects to award up to five discretionary grants for the development of innovative pathogen reduction technologies for whole blood and blood components to prevent transfusion-transmitted infectious diseases. The award ceiling for this funding opportunity is $8 million. The agency said the grant was associated with a) agriculture, b) consumer protection and c) food and nutritio more ST

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's National Institute of Corrections announced that it expects to award a cooperative agreement for the development and establishment of effective inmate cognitive behavioral rehabilitation interventions and strategies. The estimated total program funding available was cited as 150,000. The funding is open to nonprofit organizations including faith-based, community, and tribal organizations; for-profit organizations; and institutions of high more ST