Is matching funding required?

No. The source states that no matching funds are required.

FederalClosing soonFixed dateNational Institute of Standards and Technology

Measurement Science and Engineering (MSE) Research Grant Programs

Award ceiling: Not stated
Closes: Sep 15, 2026
Last verified: 2026-09-04

Per-recipient award not stated for others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Sep 15, 2026.

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Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)Science, Technology, Research & Development

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Measurement Science and Engineering (MSE) Research Grant Programs does not state a per-recipient award amount, open to others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Sep 15, 2026.

Record fields

Program pool (total): Not confirmed
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project): Not confirmed
Award floor: Not confirmed
Typical award: Not confirmed
Deadline: Sep 15, 2026
Deadline type: Fixed date
Opens: May 14, 2025
Status: Closing soon
Eligible entities: Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Geography: Not stated
Matching funds: No
Disbursement: Not confirmed
Application effort: Not confirmed
Use of funds: develop, expand, strengthen, or sustain NIST partnership programs · research · collaborative research · Metrology · Standards · Nanotechnology · Artificial Intelligence · Advanced Communications · Advanced Manufacturing · Promotion of U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness · Measurements in Sciences · Neutron Research · enhancing coordination of the U.S. Standards System
Currency: USD

How much money is available?

Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.

Program pool (total)Across all awards this cycle

Not stated

Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive

Not stated

Who can apply?

level

federal

Derived from the source that published this record

entity

Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Source field: entity types

industry

Science, Technology, Research & Development

Source field: industries

demographic

Indian tribes, for-profit organizations, foreign governments, foreign public entities, hospitals, institutions of higher education, non-profit organizations, state and local governments

Source field: demographics

use

Advanced Communications, Advanced Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence, Measurements in Sciences, Metrology, Nanotechnology, Neutron Research, Promotion of U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness, Standards, collaborative research

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, develop, expand, strengthen, or sustain NIST partnership programs, enhancing coordination of the U.S. Standards System, research

Source field: use of funds

size limit

Not confirmed

Source field: applicant size limit

clause text

This NOFO is open to all non-Federal entities to include, institutions of higher education, non-profit organizations, for-profit organizations, state and local governments, Indian tribes, hospitals, foreign public entities, and foreign governments. Individuals and unincorporated sole proprietors are not considered “non-Federal entities” and are not eligible to apply under this NOFO. NIST seeks to collaborate with a wide range of organizations and encourages minority-serving institutions of higher education and community colleges to apply.

We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.

When does it close?

Sep 15, 20268 daysDeadline type Fixed date

What can the money be used for?

13 categorysThe source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.

develop, expand, strengthen, or sustain NIST partnership programsresearchcollaborative researchMetrologyStandardsNanotechnologyArtificial IntelligenceAdvanced CommunicationsAdvanced ManufacturingPromotion of U.S. innovation and industrial competitivenessMeasurements in SciencesNeutron Researchenhancing coordination of the U.S. Standards System

These categories come from the source's own classification. A line-item cost table, where the programme publishes one, lives in the guidelines and is not parsed for this record.

How hard is the application?

1 fieldEffort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.

Application effort: Not confirmed
Disbursement: Not confirmed
Matching funds: No

What comparable notices state

113 recordsStated ceilings on open records in the same industry.

Among open records stored under Science, Technology, Research & Development, 113 of 353 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:

25th percentile$500,000
Median$1,500,000
75th percentile$5,000,000

A statistical estimate, not a prediction. It describes what a set of notices has published in this catalogue on the day you read it, and says nothing about what this programme will award. Records stating no ceiling are excluded rather than counted as zero, and the programme pool — what a funder has across every applicant — is a different column and is never mixed in.

Common questions

4 questionsEvery answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.

When is the application deadline?: Sep 15, 2026.
Who is eligible to apply?: Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification).
What can the funding be used for?: develop, expand, strengthen, or sustain NIST partnership programs, research, collaborative research, Metrology, Standards, Nanotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Communications, Advanced Manufacturing, Promotion of U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness, Measurements in Sciences, Neutron Research, enhancing coordination of the U.S. Standards System, as classified by the source.
Is matching funding required?: No. The source states that no matching funds are required.

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Provenance

Source pagegrants.gov

Retrieved2026-09-04

MethodAutomated check

First seen2026-09-04

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