America Makes and NCDMM announce the AMNOW Polymer Challenge Project Call.
AMNOW Polymer Challenge – April 2022
Demonstrating the ability to detect and predict anomalies through data analysis.
The opportunity is not only to have access to this correlated, rich dataset and the ability to report your findings to the broader America Makes audience but get up to $20k in funding.
The original deadline for the RFP has been extended to May 9.
One-Step Proposal Process
The proposal process for this America Makes Project Call is a one-step process:
A full project proposal is now due by our extended deadline, 5pm ET on Monday, May 9.
Dates/Deadlines:
Project Call Webinar (Registration Required – see www.americamakes.us)
4/12/2022
Project Call Announcement and Posting
4/13/2022
Questions from Proposers about Scope or Approach Due (All questions to be submitted to AMNOW@ncdmm.org)
4/22/2022
Responses to Proposers about Scope or Approach Due
(All questions and responses will be shared with all proposers on americamakes.us)
4/25/2022
Full Project Proposal Submission Due Date (Note: No Concept Paper Submission) *Recently Updated*
5/9/2022
Oral team presentations to Evaluation Team *Recently Updated*
5/11/2022
Phase 1 Awardees notified *Recently Updated*
5/13/2022
Project Agreement issued and NDAs executed *Recently Updated*
5/20/2022
Phase 2 Awardees notified
6/27/2022
Presentation of Final Findings at America Makes Event
Week of 8/14/2022
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Questions should be emailed to AMNOW@ncdmm.org. Questions will be posted to the America Makes website according to the schedule. Questions asked AFTER the scheduled Q&A session will NOT be addressed.
Proposals are reviewed by evaluators who are independent of teams submitting proposals and operate under a confidentiality agreement. Proposers are encouraged to seek legal counsel prior to submitting any response to this Project Call where there is a question regarding a possibility of future patent applications or the patentability of proposal concepts.
The owning organization should list anything that they are leveraging that is not going to be made available to the membership at the completion of the project. This could be a patent number or a description of the background IP that is being leveraged.
