DOD, NDEP, DOTC-STEM Education Outreach Implementation

 

To obtain support for the management, development, and furthering of new and existing partnerships between the Department of Defense, National Defense Education Program, and Defense Ordnance Technology Consortium, for Science, Technology, Engineering,and Mathematics education and other outreach organizations, professional societies, and local education activities. The scope will cover all 50 states, U.S. territories, and DoDEA schools.

Active 12.560 Immediate Office of The Secretary of Defense, Department of Defense B - Project Grants Fiscal Year 2021 Provided the students of the State of NJ and the families of Picatinny employees access to the Dimension U Mathematics Video Game: Dimension U is a first person math video game designed to teach students how to function in a high intensity test taking environment while becoming aware of the verbiage and methods by which various state tests are written. Dimension U also provides the educators a passive means by which to determine the strengths and weaknesses of a cohort of students with respect to process retention and execution via monitoring their game play to see where there may be issues.
Fiscal Year 2023 Provided funding for the expansion of both curricular and extra-curricular activities that created pathway programs that will lead to industry and Department of Defense (DoD) recognized credentials in Information Technology and Cyber Security. U.S.C., Part 10, Section 2194 N/A Students and faculty in K-12+ Applicants should reference the funding announcement on grants.gov. Preapplication coordination is not applicable. 2 CFR 200, Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards applies to this program. SF 424 R&R, SF-LLL Grant opportunity is posted on Grants.gov and Fedbizops. All responsive proposals will be evaluated in accordance with the evaluation criteria contained in the posted announcement. Contact the headquarters or regional location, as appropriate for application deadlines From 30 to 60 days. N/A Not applicable. Not applicable. The DOTC-STEM Program Manager may review the ranking of the proposals and recommendations of the technical review panel. The reviewers' independent ratings will be reconciled into a single rating for source selection purposes and a consensus will be drawn. Recommendations will be made to the Selecting Official whereby; the technical factor is approximately equal in ranking to that of the past performance factor. And both the technical and past performance factors rankings are significantly more important than cost. The average rank order from the review panel will be the primary consideration for the Selection Official in deciding which of the new proposals will be recommended for funding to the Grants Officer on a best value basis. However, the Selecting Official will select proposals after considering the technical reviews and recommendations of the DOTC-STEM Program Manager. 1. Recommend, manage, consult, and support; development, negotiation, and pilot execution of; partnerships between DoD/ NDEP/DOTC-STEM and various education outreach organizations, professional societies, and local education groups. 2. Provide management and logistics support to convene: a series of regional and national community dialogs, professional development and planning workshops, and conferences on DoD/ NDEP/DOTC-STEM education and community outreach issues. 3. Develop concepts and tests on applying distance learning to DoD/ NDEP/DOTC-STEM outreach. 4. Provide training, marketing and outreach videos. 5. Provide programmatic support to the DOD DOTC-STEM office for student learning modules (SLM) and pre-engineering partnership (PEP) activities and their development, selection, modification, field-testing and other DoD/ NDEP/DOTC-STEM activities. 6. Support the alignment of Materials World Modules (MWM) and other DoD/ NDEP/DOTC-STEM educational outreach activities. 7. Provide an established, effective evaluation model and techniques for assessing the effectiveness of MWM and other DoD/ NDEP/DOTC-STEM outreach activities when deployed to large numbers of schools and districts. 8. Informing K-12 students of the possibility of a career in the STEM fields so as to insure that a viable workforce will be available from which DoD can recruit future scientists and engineers. Not applicable. Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) performs the auditing function for this program. Recipients are required to maintain records adequate to document costs incurred. Financial records, supporting documents, statistical records and all other records pertinent to an agreement will be retained for a period of 3 years. The retention period starts from the date of the submission of the final expenditure report or, for grants that are renewed annually, from the date of the submission of the annual financial status report. The recipient will allow access to any pertinent books, documents, papers, and records of the recipient organization and their subrecipients to make audits, examinations, excerpts and transcripts. Statutory formula is not applicable to this assistance listing.

Matching requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.

MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing. Any restrictions will be discussed in the grant opportunity document. Initial funding by lump sum followed by varying amounts of incremental funding as it becomes available. None/Not specified. Morgan Ziatyk
Phipps Road, Building 9
Picatinny Arsenal , NJ 07806 US
morgan.f.ziatyk.civ@army.mil
Phone: (973) 724-3504

Scott Dern
Phipps Road, Building 9
Picatinny, NJ 07806 USA
scott.r.dern.civ@army.mil
Phone: (973) 724-8674 97-0400-1-1-001 (Project Grants) FY 22$10,000,000.00; FY 23 est $18,000,000.00; FY 24 est $18,000,000.00; FY 21$0.00; FY 19$3,163,523.00; FY 20 est $1,195,718.00; FY 18$6,651,820.00; FY 15 est $5,000,000.00; FY 16 est $5,000,000.00; FY 14$9,035,976.00; - $0-$20K Not applicable. Fiscal Year 2021 Fiscal Year 2021: Provided the students of the State of NJ and the families of Picatinny employees access to the Dimension U Mathematics Video Game: Dimension U is a first person math video game designed to teach students how to function in a high intensity test taking environment while becoming aware of the verbiage and methods by which various state tests are written. Dimension U also provides the educators a passive means by which to determine the strengths and weaknesses of a cohort of students with respect to process retention and execution via monitoring their game play to see where there may be issues.
Fiscal Year 2023 AirTalent: Leveraging Research Projects to Build Collaboration, Foster STEM Literacy and Create a Pipeline of STEM Talent. Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) is working to cultivate a capable, agile STEM workforce able to sustain the Navy’s maritime superiority. AirTalent is NAWCAD’s strategy for investing early in our future workforce, then maintaining STEM interests while building skills critical to the US Navy’s innovation base. The need to hire students with increasing skills and engineering experience in competitive fields is continuing to rise rapidly across the country. The Department of Navy (DON) STEM program is working to foster and cultivate a diverse, world-class STEM workforce in order to maintain the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps’ technological superiority. Naval STEM programs are deliberate investments in the current and future DON workforce, which enhance the Navy and Marine Corps’ ability to meet present and future war-fighting challenges. Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (MCJROTC) is working to foster and cultivate an interest in Computer Science, Cyber Security and other STEM fields for secondary students enrolled in MCJROTC. NDAA 21 & 22 provided funding that will allow the expansion of both curricular and extra-curricular activities that will not only introduce students to innovation but will create pathway programs that will lead to industry and Department of Defense (DoD) recognized credentials in Information Technology and Cyber Security.