NOPP Broad Agency Announcements
and Requests For Proposals

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Using a peer-review process, NOPP identifies and funds the most scientifically and technically meritorious research that clearly demonstrates public/private sector partnerships in the areas of interest each year, as shown below. There is steady progress toward ocean observation and prediction elements

Complete text of each year's Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) or Request For Proposal (RFP) can be found below.

• FY 10 NOPP Broad Agency Announcement on Developing Environmental Protocols and Monitoring to Support Ocean Renewable Energy and Stewardship - OPEN
• FY 10 NOPP Broad Agency Announcement on (1) Improving Attachments of Electronic Data Loggers to Cetaceans, which includes two subtopics; and (2) Improvements in High-Resolution, Tide-Resolving Global Ocean Predictions - CLOSED
• FY 09 NOPP Broad Agency Announcement on (1) Improving Wind Wave Predictions: Global to Regional Scales; (2) Sensors for Measurement of Biological, Bio-Optical, Optical, or Chemical Properties of the Ocean; and (3) Improving Tropical Cyclone Intensity Forecasting - CLOSED
• FY 08 NOPP Request for Proposals on Exploration and Research of Northern Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Natural and Artificial Hard Bottom Habitats with Emphasis on Coral Communities: Reefs, Rigs and Wrecks - CLOSED
  
• FY08 NOPP Broad Agency Announcement on (1) Forecasting the Response to Coastal Ecosystems to Persistent Forcing and Extreme Events; (2) Sensors for Measurement of Biological, Bio-Optical or Chemical Properties of the Ocean; and (3) Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation - CLOSED
• FY07 NOPP Broad Agency Announcement on (1) Marine Mammals; and (2) Ice-Diminished Arctic - CLOSED
• FY06 NOPP Broad Agency Announcement - CLOSED - ALSO SEE AMENDMENT BELOW
• FY06 NOPP Broad Agency Announcement (Ocean Workforce) - CLOSED - AMENDED (12/15/05)
• FY06 NOPP Broad Agency Announcement (ARGO) - CLOSED
• FY05 NOPP Request for Proposals on Chemosynthetic Communities in the Gulf of Mexico - CLOSED
• FY05 NOPP Broad Agency Announcement - CLOSED 

• FY04 NOPP Pre-Solicitation Notice on Surface Circulation Radar Mapping in Alaskan Coastal Waters: Field Study Beaufort Sea and Cook Inlet Released
• BAA FOR FY 04
• RFP for FY03 - Topic B
• RFP for FY 03 (GODAE) - .pdf
• BAA for FY 02
  
• BAA for FY 02 (OBIS)
• IMPORTANT MODIFICATION to BAA for FY 02 (OBIS)
• BAA for FY 01
• BAA for FY 00
• BAA for FY 99
• BAA for FY 98
• BAA for FY 97