Limited Submission Opportunities – Open Calls
Institutionally Coordinated Submissions
Welcome to the current listing of open limited submission opportunities available through the ORSD. These opportunities represent competitive funding programs in which the sponsor limits the number of applications an institution may submit. To ensure a fair and strategic selection process, ORSD coordinates internal reviews and nominations when necessary.
Each listing includes key details such as eligibility criteria, internal deadlines, sponsor deadlines, and links to full program guidelines. Faculty and researchers are encouraged to review these opportunities regularly and begin preparing proposals early.
If you are aware of a limited submission opportunity that is not listed, please email the RDTE%20Information%20Specialist to ensure it is reviewed and appropriately coordinated.
Open Calls
Safe-OSE Internal Competition Now Open
Running from Monday, November 24, through Thursday, December 04
This program grows out of the Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) program, which supports new managing organizations to catalyze distributed, community-driven development and growth of new OSEs to address the discerned need to address safety, security, and privacy vulnerabilities in impactful OSEs.
Key Sponsor Dates:
Preliminary Proposal Deadline: January 13, 2026
Proposal Submission Deadline: April 28, 2026
To respond to the growing threats to the safety, security, and privacy of OSEs, NSF
launched the Safety, Security, and Privacy of Open-source Ecosystems (Safe-OSE) program.
This program seeks to fund impactful, mature open-source ecosystems to address important
classes of safety, security, and privacy vulnerabilities. In this context, mature
signifies that the ecosystem in question has already established a robust community
of contributors, an extensive group of users, a managing organization that steers
the development of the product, and the essential infrastructure needed to keep the
ecosystem running.
ORAU Ralph E. Powe JFEA Internal Competition Now Open
Running from Monday, December 01 - Wednesday, December 10, 5:00 pm
(Limited 2 nominations per Institution)
These competitive research awards provide seed money for junior faculty members, that often result in additional funding from other sources. The award amount provided by ORAU is $5,000. The applicant’s institution is required to match the award with at least an additional $5,000. This is a one-year grant (July 1 to June 30).
Eligibility for the Powe Awards is open to full-time assistant professors, at ORAU member institutions, who fall within two years of their tenure track appointment at the time of application. If there is a question about eligibility, your ORAU Councilor makes the final determination.
Research must fall within one of the following five disciplines:
- Engineering and Applied Science
- Life Sciences
- Mathematics/Computer Sciences
- Physical Sciences
- Policy, Management, or Education
Key Sponsor Dates:
Proposal Submission Deadline: January 07, 2026, 11:00 a.m. Central
Upcoming Opportunities
Rare Disease Endpoint Advancement (RDEA) Pilot Program
FDA-2022-N-2480
Sponsor: U. S. Department of Agriculture – Food & Drug Administration
The RDEA Pilot Program is a joint program of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research and the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. The program is designed to:
- Seek to advance rare disease drug development programs …
- Promote innovation and evolving science by sharing learnings …
- Develop FDA staff capacity to enable and facilitate the development and use of novel
endpoints
IC: January 12, 2026 - January 16, 2026
Notifications: Week of January 26, 2026
Sponsor Deadline: March 31, 2026
PAR-23-077 Collaborative Program Grant for Multidisciplinary Teams
(RM1 - Clinical Trial Optional)
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – National Institutes of Health – National Institute for General Medical Sciences
The Collaborative Program Grant is designed to support research in which funding a team of interdependent investigators to achieve a unified scientific goal offers significant advantages over supporting individual research project grants.
IC: February 9, 2026 - February 13, 2026
Notifications: Week of February 23, 2026
Sponsor Deadline: May 27, 2026