NASA Nebraska EPSCoR
(Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research)
NASA Nebraska EPSCoR
NASA's Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) within Nebraska establishes partnerships with government, higher education and industry that are designed to effect lasting improvements in the state's research infrastructure, R&D capacity and hence, its national R&D competitiveness. Nebraska's successful NASA EPSCoR recipient profiles demonstrate how NASA is partnering within the state to achieve its mission.
The NASA Nebraska EPSCoR program facilitates mini-grant projects at the state level, growing them to become competitive at the national level.
Current Funding Opportunities
FY26 NASA Nebraska EPSCoR Statewide Limited Submission Competition
NASA Nebraska EPSCoR is pleased to announce its Call for Proposals for this year’s NASA EPSCoR program. The purpose of this statewide competition is to select the top proposal from across Nebraska. The selected proposal will be submitted to the national competition on behalf of NASA Nebraska EPSCoR. The NASA Nebraska EPSCoR program is initiating this competition at the state level to evaluate the proposal to be submitted upon NASA’s official announcement of the national competition. NASA Nebraska EPSCoR will only consider proposals from this competition to be eligible in the national NASA EPSCoR competition upon release of a solicitation.
The purpose of the NASA EPSCoR program is to establish partnerships with government, higher education, and industry that are designed to effect lasting improvements in a state’s or region’s research infrastructure, R&D capacity and hence, its national R&D competitiveness. In addition to the research and technology development, the awards enable faculty development and higher education student support.
Required Letters of Intent are due March 10, 2026, and Full Proposals are due on March 31, 2026. Proposals must be submitted through the NASA Nebraska SmarterSelect system where more information may be found about the competition: https://smr.to/p108221. Requirements for the Letters of Intent are also included at this link.
If you have any questions about this year’s competition, please contact our office at Nasa.Nebraska@unomaha.edu.
Judith Brown, an undergraduate researcher in the Moore Analytics and Dynamics Laboratory (Keegan Moore, FY19 sub-grant recipient), investigates the behavior of a new vibration mitigation approach for simultaneously suppressing multi-frequency, multi-directional vibrations in high-aspect ratio wings.
Doctoral Candidate, Takashi Sado (left) received the Dr. Etop Esen Award for Student Excellence in Scientific Presentation at the 2022 International Space Station Research & Development Conference.