OtherForecastedFixedDepartment of Defense

National Defense Education Program (NDEP) Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Consortia Request for Information (RFI) for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Research & Engineering)

Per-recipient award not stated for other legal entity, others, closing Not stated.

Other Legal EntityOthers541713 Research and Development in Nanotechnology541714 Research and Development in Biotechnology541715 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences541720 Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities611310 Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools611430 Professional and Management Development Training611519 Other Technical and Trade Schools611691 Exam Preparation and Tutoring611710 Educational Support Services712110 Museums813211 Grantmaking Foundations923110 Administration of Education ProgramsOther (see text field entitled "Explanation of Other Category of Funding Activity" for clarification)

In one sentence

National Defense Education Program (NDEP) Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Consortia Request for Information (RFI) for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Research & Engineering) does not state a per-recipient award amount, open to other legal entity, others.

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
This is a Request for Information (RFI), not a funding opportunity. The page states: "In accordance with FAR 15.201(e), responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract." No funding amounts are specified.
Award floor
Not confirmed
Typical award
Not confirmed
Deadline
Not stated
Deadline type
fixed
Opens
Not stated
Status
Forecasted
Eligible entities
Other Legal Entity · Others
Geography
Not stated
Matching funds
Not confirmed
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Application effort
Light
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

Source wording: “This is a Request for Information (RFI), not a funding opportunity. The page states: "In accordance with FAR 15.201(e), responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract." No funding amounts are specified.

Who can apply?

entity

Other Legal Entity, Others

Source field: entity types
industry

541713 Research and Development in Nanotechnology, 541714 Research and Development in Biotechnology, 541715 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, 541720 Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities, 611310 Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools, 611430 Professional and Management Development Training, 611519 Other Technical and Trade Schools, 611691 Exam Preparation and Tutoring, 611710 Educational Support Services, 712110 Museums, 813211 Grantmaking Foundations, 923110 Administration of Education Programs, Other (see text field entitled "Explanation of Other Category of Funding Activity" for clarification)

Source field: industries
use

Consortium-based approaches to STEM education, Programs targeting underserved populations including Veterans and military-connected students, STEM education programs at Community Colleges and 2-year institutions, Technical training and certificate programs, Transitioning students from 2-year Community College STEM programs to 4-year institutions

Source field: use of funds
size limit

Not stated

Source field: applicant size limit
clause text

The page states: "All qualified, experienced, and capable sources are welcome to respond to this RFI" and explicitly encourages "non-profits, academia, large, and small businesses (e.g., 8(a), service-disabled Veteran-owned small business, HUBZone small business, small disadvantaged business, Veteran-owned small business, and woman-owned small business)." No security clearance required.

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

When does it close?

Not statedfixed deadline

This is the RFI response deadline. The page also lists estimated application due date as February 15, 2022, which would apply to future solicitations based on this RFI.

What can the money be used for?

STEM education programs at Community Colleges and 2-year institutionsTransitioning students from 2-year Community College STEM programs to 4-year institutionsTechnical training and certificate programsConsortium-based approaches to STEM educationPrograms targeting underserved populations including Veterans and military-connected students

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?

Application effort
Light
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Matching funds
Not confirmed

Who has received this funding?

No award records yet

We hold no prior awards for this programme. That is a gap in what we have connected, not a finding that the programme has never funded anyone — check the official page, which may list past recipients.

Common questions

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

Who is eligible to apply?
Other Legal Entity, Others.
What can the funding be used for?
STEM education programs at Community Colleges and 2-year institutions, Transitioning students from 2-year Community College STEM programs to 4-year institutions, Technical training and certificate programs, Consortium-based approaches to STEM education, Programs targeting underserved populations including Veterans and military-connected students, as classified by the source.
How demanding is the application?
Light, on the source's own classification.
Provenance
Source pagegrants.gov
Retrieved2026-08-31
MethodAutomated check
First seen2026-08-31

The official page governs. If the source and this record disagree, the source is correct — programmes change their terms between our checks, so confirm every figure above before you apply.