Opportunity Information: Apply for DN ARI 18 001
The Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction: Transformative Solutions Incubator (TSI) is a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) grant opportunity designed to accelerate the shift of promising, security-relevant technologies from academic research into real-world use. Its central goal is to close the gap between early-stage university research and deployable capabilities that can support DHS operational components working in the countering weapons of mass destruction (CWMD) mission space. In practical terms, TSI is meant to help technologies that might otherwise remain stuck at the prototype or laboratory stage mature into solutions that can be adopted by government users and ultimately commercialized.
The program is structured around three core functions. First, it identifies DHS operational requirements that can realistically be addressed through academic research, meaning it starts from mission needs rather than purely investigator-driven topics. Second, it translates those needs into defined research topic areas aligned with CWMD Office priorities and the broader National Security Strategy, ensuring projects are relevant to national-level security objectives. Third, it funds selected teams through Cooperative Agreements, a funding mechanism that typically implies closer collaboration and involvement between the government and the awardee during project execution than a traditional grant. The intent is not just to support research, but to push development far enough that a technology can transition out of academia and into the marketplace or operational use pathways.
A defining feature of TSI is its emphasis on transition and commercialization planning from the start. Applicants are required to include an industrial partner or a national laboratory partner, reflecting DHSs expectation that successful projects will have a credible route to scale, manufacturing, integration, testing, and eventual adoption. This requirement is meant to reduce the risk that funded work ends as an academic demonstration with no practical follow-through, and instead ensures that a partner with applied development or deployment expertise is engaged throughout the project lifecycle.
Administratively, this opportunity is a discretionary funding program administered by the DHS Office of Procurement Operations, Grants Division, under Funding Opportunity Number DN ARI 18 001. The eligible applicants are institutions of higher education, including both public/state-controlled universities and private universities, which underscores that the program is primarily aimed at academic-led innovation. The assistance listing is associated with CFDA 97.077. The opportunity was created on August 1, 2018, and originally closed on August 31, 2018. The maximum potential award amount listed is $1,300,000, indicating support sized to enable meaningful technology maturation activities rather than small exploratory research only. While the notice references expected awards, the number is not specified in the provided data.
Overall, TSI can be understood as a mission-driven technology incubator funded by DHS, aimed at turning research into usable CWMD capabilities by aligning academic work with operational requirements, supporting later-stage development through cooperative agreements, and mandating partnerships that make market transition and real-world adoption more achievable.Apply for DN ARI 18 001
- The Office of Procurement Operations - Grants Division in the other sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction: Transformative Solutions Incubator (TSI)" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 97.077.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2018-08-01.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2018-08-31. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,300,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.
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