BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENTS AND REQUESTS FOR PROPOSALS

The National Oceanographic Partnership Program and its partners regularly announce funding opportunities. Below you will find a list of active opportunities (if any), closed announcements and archived materials related to prior years’ announcements. To stay abreast of Funding Announcements as they are published, we strongly recommend following us on X, Facebook, and Instagram.

OPEN ANNOUNCEMENTS:

There are currently no open funding announcements.

April 3, 2026
New Funding Opportunity for Ocean Technology Innovation
September 3, 2024
National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) 2024 Broad Agency Announcement
November 28, 2022
Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR): Research and Development for Assessing Large Scale Carbon Removal and Local Scale Ocean Acidification Mitigation Department of Commerce
October 8, 2021
National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) 2022 Broad Area Announcement (CLOSED)
January 21, 2021
Energy Department and Federal Partners Announce up to $14.5 Million for Offshore Wind Environmental Research
August 31, 2020
IOOS Ocean Technology Transition Project
June 23, 2020
Predicting Hurricane Coastal Impacts, FY21-24 (CLOSED)
August 15, 2019
IOOS Ocean Technology Call for Proposals
September 21, 2018
National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) FY2019 Broad Agency Announcement (CLOSED)
June 27, 2018
NOAA Funding Opportunity for Ocean Exploration
June 20, 2018
Department of Energy Funding Opportunity for Marine Technology
July 14, 2017
Notification of Topic 3 Letters of Intent (LOI) Review Results
February 29, 2016
FY 16 NOPP Funding Announcement – Atlantic Deepwater Ecosystem Observatory Network (ADEON)
November 21, 2014
FY 15 NOPP Funding Announcement — Oceanographic Modeling Funding Opportunities
November 19, 2014
FY 15 NOPP Funding Announcement – Integrating the Hydrological Cycle for improved Coastal and Global Forecasting
November 19, 2014
FY 15 NOPP Funding Announcement – Earth System Prediction Coupled Air-Sea Process Studies and Coupled Data Assimilation
November 19, 2014
FY 15 NOPP Funding Announcement – Seamless Forecasting from the Deep Ocean to the Coast
June 27, 2014
FY 14 Request For Procurement: Marine Arctic Ecosystem Study (MARES)
November 22, 2013
FY 14 NOPP Funding Announcement – Demonstration of a U.S. Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (Marine BON)
March 20, 2013
FY 13 NOPP Funding Announcement – Marine and Hydrokinetic (MHK) Effects Assessment and Monitoring
February 27, 2013
FY 14 NOPP Funding Announcement – Earth System Prediction Capability
April 25, 2011
FY 11 Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Request for Proposals: Letter of Intent (LOI)
August 25, 2010
FY 11 NOPP Funding Announcement – Marine Mammal Detection and Monitoring
July 27, 2010
FY 11 NOPP Funding Announcement – U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System
April 21, 2010
FY 10 NOPP Funding Announcement – Atlantic Deepwater Canyons
February 3, 2010
FY 10 Funding Opportunity: Environmental Protocols and Monitoring – Ocean Renewable Energy and Stewardship
August 26, 2009
FY 10 NOPP Funding Announcement — Improved Cetacean Data Logging and Ocean Predictions

FY 10 NOPP Broad Agency Announcement on Developing Environmental Protocols and Monitoring to Support Ocean Renewable Energy and Stewardship

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

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

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

FY 08 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

FY 07 NOPP Broad Agency Announcement on (1) Marine Mammals; and (2) Ice-Diminished Arctic

FY 06 NOPP Broad Agency Announcement on the ARGO Project: Global Ocean Observations for Understanding and Prediction of Climate Variability

FY 06 NOPP Broad Agency Announcement on (1) Understand, Identify Gaps and Predict Changes in the Workforce for Ocean Sciences, Technology and Operations; and (2) An Open-Source Community Model for Coastal Sediment Transport

FY 05 NOPP Request for Proposals on Chemosynthetic Communities in the Gulf of Mexico

FY 05 NOPP Broad Agency Announcement on (1) Fusing Multi-Sensor Regional Scale Data to Monitor and Quantify Coastal Processes; (2) Integration of Private and Public Data Sets in the Northern Gulf of Mexico; (3) New Methods for Detection of Fish Populations or Mapping of Fish Habitat; and (4) Sensors for Sustained Autonomous Measurement of Chemical or Biological Parameters in the Ocean

FY 05 NOPP Broad Agency Announcement on Assessment of Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE) Boundary Conditions for Coastal Ocean Predictions

FY 04 NOPP Pre-Solicitation Notice on Surface Circulation Radar Mapping in Alaskan Coastal Waters: Field Study Beaufort Sea and Cook Inlet Released

FY 04 NOPP Broad Agency Announcement on (1) Sea Surface Temperature (SST) for the Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE); (2) A Wireless Network for the U.S. Coastal Zone; (3A) Controlled Exposure Experiments on Marine Mammals; (3B) Ecology and Behavior of Beaked Whales; (3C) Improved Methods to Survey, Locate and Identify Marine Mammals; (3D) Algorithms and Databases; and (3D) Education and Outreach

FY 03 NOPP Request for Proposals – Topic B

FY 03 NOPP Request for Proposals – GODAE

FY 02 NOPP Broad Agency Announcement

FY 02 NOPP Broad Agency Announcement on the Ocean Biogeographic Information System

FY 01 NOPP Broad Agency Announcement on (1) Operational/Routine Observations; (2) Research “Observatories”; (3) Observational Technique Development Partnership; (4) “Commons” for Ocean Information; (5) Renewal of Existing NOPP Projects

FY 00 NOPP Broad Agency Announcement on (1) Toward an Integrated Ocean Observing and Prediction System; (2) The Ocean Biogeographical Information System

FY 99 NOPP Broad Agency Announcement on (1) Data Assimilation and Modeling Initiative; (2) Ocean Observation Capabilities

FY 98 NOPP Broad Agency Announcement on (1) Partnership Efforts to Develop and/or Demonstrate Coastal and Open Ocean Observational Technologies to Establish the Means for Continuous, High Resolution Measurements of Ocean Processes; and (2) Partnership Efforts to Develop and Exploit Regional Scale Coastal and Open Ocean Prediction Systems

FY 97 NOPP Broad Agency Announcement on (1) “Virtual” Ocean Data and Remote Sensing Centers/Facilities; (2) National Littoral “Laboratory” to Augment or Leverage Existing Field Efforts and Programs; (3) Partnership Efforts to Accelerate and Leverage Existing or Planned Interagency Efforts; and (4) Education, Outreach, and Training in Support of Military and Civilian Oceanography to Enhance Ongoing Efforts