Amendment 109: Removing DEIA Requirements from ROSES-2024
On January 20th, 2025, the President of the United States of America signed an Executive Order entitled “Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions”. This Order repealed Executive Order 14035, “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility in the Federal Workforce.” It also directed agencies to take immediate action to identify and terminate DEIA initiatives and programs. To comply with this order, SMD is in the process of amending open Program Elements in ROSES-2024 to end the Inclusion Plan Pilot Study, remove requirements for Inclusion Plans and the evaluation factors associated with them, and adjust the content of some other Program Elements to remove references to NASA’s DEIA programs. Program elements that have already received proposals will not be amended, but if they required Inclusion Plans, those plans will not be reviewed and will not impact the selection of proposals. The program elements that will be amended include:
| Appendix | Program |
| A.25 | Earth Surface and Interior |
| A.36 | The Science of PACE |
| A.41 | SERVIR Applied Sciences Team |
| A.61 | INjected Smoke and PYRocumulonimbus Experiment Science Team |
| A.62 | FarmFlux Science Team |
| A.64 | FORTE Science Team |
| B.21 | Heliophysics Citizen Science Investigations |
| C.24 | Here to Observe |
| D.1 | Astrophysics Research Program Overview |
| D.3 | Astrophysics Research and Analysis |
| D.7 | Strategic Astrophysics Technology |
| D.14 | Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Research and Support Participation Opportunities |
| D.15 | LISA Preparatory Science |
| F.8 | Supplements for Open-Source Science |
| F.11 | Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon: Stand-Alone Landing Site-Agnostic |
| F.14 | High Priority Open-Source Science |
| F.20 | Mentorship and Opportunities in STEM with Academic Institutions for Community Success Seed Funding |
In addition to these ROSES-24 programs, other SMD solicitations will be updated to comply with the Executive Order. Separate notices for other NOFOs and AOs will be published as they become available.
Questions regarding any particular program element may be directed to the point of contact for that given in the summary table of key information at the end of the program element and at https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/program-officers-list/.
Questions regarding the ROSES Summary of Solicitation may be directed to sara@nasa.gov
