The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has opened a funding opportunity for rapid, high-impact projects that support the nation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Eligible institutes are invited to propose projects that may include (but are not limited to)
- Medical or non medical countermeasures
- grants to accelerate production of critical materials
- equipment and supplies
- additional production facilites
- technology road mapping for pandemic response and recovery
- leveraging institute capabilities to strengthen state and community resilience
- returning to the U.S. the manufacture of critical conventional drugs and ensuring supply chains for critical materials related to pandemic response
- workforce development and training for manufacturing workers.
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