Amendment 46: B.13 DRIVE Science Centers Due Dates Delayed

Amendment 46 delays the due dates for program element B.13 Heliophysics DRIVE Science Centers.

DRIVE Science Centers (DSCs), implemented as a NASA-NSF partnership, are part of an integrated multi-agency initiative, DRIVE (Diversity, Realize, Integrate, Venture, Educate), put forward as a high priority recommendation of the 2013 Solar and Space Physics Decadal Survey. DSCs, are focused on grand challenge goals that are both ambitious and focused enough to be achievable within the lifetime of the center. In other words, they should address problems poised for major advances. This program is intended to support science that cannot be effectively done by individual investigators or small teams, but requires the synergistic, coordinated efforts of a research center. In order to maximize the potential for these science centers to deliver on innovative and breakthrough science, they are expected to include aspects in their design that support collaboration and deep knowledge integration across the full range of expertise (scientific, computational, educational) within them, as recommended in a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences, Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science.

This amendment delays the due dates for program element B.13 Heliophysics DRIVE Science Centers. Step-1 proposals are now due February 1, 2019, and Step-2 proposals are now due April 5, 2019.

Comments and/or questions regarding this program element may be directed to Janet Kozyra at janet.kozyra@nasa.gov and Jim Spann at jim.spann@nasa.gov.