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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) - Risk, Economics and operations Research of Terrorism and All Hazards (REOR) Center: Partners ONLY DHS-10-ST-061-001B

Program Summary

This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is associated with FOA number DHS-10-ST-061-001A. “Risk, Economics and Operations Research of Terrorism and All Hazards (REOR)—Center Lead.” Through this FOA, DHS requests applications for possible partner institutions to be part of the Risk, Economic and Operations Research COE.  As appropriate to meet its needs, DHS may add partner institutions to this COE consortium, provided these partners’ proposals successfully passed a technical merit review. This FOA, DHS-10-ST-061-001B, is for Partner-ONLY applications. The FOA for the Lead COE, DHS-10-ST-061-000A, is posted separately. 

This FOA will support DHS policy directives to apply a risk-focused framework across all
homeland security efforts. 

DHS seeks to develop a Center that will promote rigorous, innovative and path-breaking research in how the risks and consequences of terrorism and other low-probability events are evaluated and countered. DHS expects this COE and its partners not only to break new ground but also to creatively adapt existing approaches to resolve problems estimating or predicting the risk of terrorist attacks and other adverse events related to DHS’s mission. Tools and methods proposed under this funding opportunity should be rooted in valid scientific research and theory and must improve DHS’s ability to forecast terrorist reactions and responses to alternative mitigation measures. Knowledge generated by research under this effort must be amenable to integration into operations research, economics, and other social science and behavioral models and tools.

Methods developed must be sufficiently user-friendly to stimulate adoption by analysts responsible for performing cost/benefit and risk of mitigation alternatives analyses. S&T expects the REOR COE Lead and its partners to become a fully integrated component of the existing network of DHS COEs and to take advantage of the network’s resources to increase the efficiency of mission-critical research and education programs. S&T’s University Network is a consortium of COEs that share resources and data and collaborate on research projects in order to provide cost-effective results to support DHS’s mission.

Subject to the availability of funds, this funding announcement may result in a grant or cooperative agreement (CA) between DHS and a partner institution, or a subaward from the successful REOR COE lead. DHS reserves the right to select one or more of the projects submitted in response to this FOA, or none at all.

In order to maximize participation with the REOR COE Lead under funding opportunity number DHS-10-ST-061-0001A, but recognizing that individual projects may not be captured in all Lead proposals, DHS is allowing institutions to propose projects as a partner- only and is limiting the number of projects to one application per institution. This limitation does include any submissions by institutions under the REOR COE Lead funding opportunity.

Additional Information 
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=52493

Deadlines

Letter of Intent Instructions

OVCR may reserve submission slots for previously submitted but unfunded proposals that received highly competitive ratings from the external sponsor. These will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis by the Vice Chancellor. For consideration, scanned copies of your complete reviews (not just summary) must be included with LOI.

Depending upon the number of LOIs submitted, OVCR might be required to facilitate an internal peer review process to select UIC’s submission(s) to this program. White paper instructions will be posted if necessary.

eLOI Form & Instructions – Adobe Acrobat Requirements

1. Download the file directly to your computer or to a disk, right click on the link, then select "save link as" or "save target as" from the dropdown options.
2. Open eLOI.
3. Position the hand pointer inside a form field and click.
• To accept the field change and go to the next field, press Tab or use your mouse to click on the next form field.
• To accept the field change and go to the previous field, press Shift + Tab or use your mouse to click on the previous form field.
4. Complete the form fields.
5. After completing the form, click “Save” then click “Submit to RDS@uic.edu”.

Letter of Intent (LOI): eLOI Form (Fillable PDF*)

*Please note:

• Fields highlighted in red are required to successfully submit the form.
• Do not print then submit scanned version of e-LOI via email.

Please contact Jennifer Czak at jpaliga@uic.edu or 6-2590 with any questions.

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