This year's solicitation includes not only fundamental research in IT, but also new applications of IT in all scientific, engineering and educational areas, as well as innovative infrastructure to support IT research and education. The purpose of this program is to augment the knowledge base and increase the workforce needed to enhance the value of Information Technology to everyone.
Limitations are as follows.
This means that an individual may submit two pre-proposals for Large or Group projects, or two proposals for Small projects, or one of each. The full proposal following a pre-proposal does not count against these limits. An institution may, however, also appear any number of times as a subawardee on other institutions' proposals of any size. An institution may submit more than one pre-proposal for Large projects but NSF will accept only one full proposal from any given institution. Only pre-proposals that are invited by NSF may submit a full proposal for a Group or Large Project.