About
Research support expertise
Arizona State University’s Global Security Initiative catalyzes defense and security research throughout the university — from building new sponsor relationships through project execution. As part of this mission, GSI offers targeted pre-award support for faculty and staff pursuing security-related research.
GSI has extensive experience with government and industry sponsors, particularly in the Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC). GSI has helped create successful projects with federal DoD/IC/DHS sponsors, and has shepherded partnerships with national labs and research-centric industry partners.
$970M
Cumulative budgets at the end of FY24 (includes an $840M DARPA submission)
81
GSI-managed submissions in FY24
19%
Increase in ASU HERD expenditures for DoD over the past 2 years
175+
GSI affiliates
GSI pre-award team key offerings
- Sponsor/funding opportunity identification and consultation
- Building relationships with sponsor program managers
- Administrative proposal management (e.g., proposal formatting and structural considerations, templates, guidelines)
- Parsing complex funding announcements for eligibility, required components, due dates, etc.
- Team meeting facilitation (e.g., kick-offs and post-submission retrospectives)
- Compile proposal components in collaboration with a Research Advancement Administrator (RA) to streamline submission process
- Liaison with financial and administrative contacts, both internal and external to ASU
- “Red team” review of final proposal (e.g., sponsor relevance, document design, funding announcement compliance)
Process
- Intake two-week rule
New requests for pre-award team management must be received no later that two weeks prior to the sponsor deadline. - Services offered
Please be aware that our team continually manages multiple complex proposals with overlapping deadlines. During peak workload times, we may only be able to offer select features of proposal management. - Proposal kick-off meeting
To ensure quality submissions, GSI holds kick-off meetings for all submissions that our team manages, with only rare exceptions. Please prepare for the Proposal Manager to ask for your availability and a list of attendees for the initial kick-off meeting. - Deadlines/proposal schedule
Thank you in advance for adhering to all deadlines suggested by the Proposal Manager. Our team is certified in proposal management industry best practices. The tools and templates we use are to ensure your submission is a success. - Red team review
A red team review of the technical narrative prior to submission to the sponsor is strongly encouraged in general. Any proposal that may have a classified component must be reviewed by or discussed with GSI’s Senior Director of Research Strategy prior to submission. - GSI pre-award intake form
Complete the proposal intake form to get started.
GSI pre-award intake form
Complete the proposal intake form to get started.
Calendar
| Date | Presenter | Presentation/Event Title | Event Info |
| 1 Nov 2024 | Kristina Nelson, Sarai Alvarado, and Ted Senator | DoD Early Career Funding Opportunities | Info |
| Oct-Nov 2024 | Kristina Nelson | Fulton Schools of Engineering (FSE) new faculty Dept of Defense Principal Investigator (PI) workshop series | by invitation |
| 09 Sep 2024 | Kristina Nelson, Kim Buchheit, Hayley Bohall, Quyen Wickham, Megan Blease, Kaushik Balakrishnan, and Terry Christenson | Early Career Funding Programs (Opportunity Kick-off) | Info |
| Mar-Apr 2024 | Kristina Nelson | The Polytechnic School (TPS) and School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks (MSN) new faculty Dept of Defense Principal Investigator (PI) workshop series | by invitation |
| 16 Nov 2023 | Kristina Nelson | FY24 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award (YFA) | Info |
| Oct-Nov 2023 | Kristina Nelson | School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence (SCAI) new faculty Dept of Defense Principal Investigator (PI) workshop series | by invitation |
| 13 Sep 2023 | Lara Ferry, Kristina Nelson | Taking the Pentagon to the People (TTPTTP) panel for faculty | Info |
| 28 Jun 2023 | Paulo Shakarian, Nancy Cooke, Kristina Nelson | Principles for Principal Investigators (PI 101) | Info |
| 07 Jun 2023 | Kristina Nelson | Market Your Research: Quad Charts | Info |
| 17 May 2023 | Jamie Winterton | Five Star Proposals: The Heilmeier Catechism | Info |
| 28 Apr 2023 | Kristina Nelson | Connect to the Sponsor | Info |
| 23 Apr 2023 | Jamie Winterton, Roslynn Runia | Strategic Research Initiatives with the Dept of Defense (DoD): Kickstart Your DoD Research | Info |
| 03 Apr 2023 | Kristina Nelson | FY24 Dept of Defense (DoD) Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) overview | Info |
| 28 Feb 2023 | Kristina Nelson | FY23 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Long Range BAA | Info |
Popular funding opportunities and resources
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award (YFA)
DoD Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI)
Office of Naval Research (ONR) Long Range BAA
ASU Pivot database
ASU KE Research Development
ASU Research Administration
Equipping investigators and research advancement teams with an array of information, documents, and tools.
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