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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND
SPACE ADMINISTRATION
[Notice: 22–014]
Centennial Challenges Watts on the
Moon Challenge Phase 2
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA).
ACTION: Notice of Centennial Challenges
Watts on the Moon Challenge Phase 2.
AGENCY:
Phase 2 of the Watts on the
Moon Challenge is open, and teams that
wish to compete may now register.
NASA seeks to stimulate research and
technology solutions to support future
missions and inspire new national
aerospace capabilities through public
prize competitions called Centennial
Challenges. The Watts on the Moon
Challenge is one such competition.
Centennial Challenges are managed at
NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in
Huntsville, Alabama and are part of the
Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing
program within NASA’s Space
Technology Mission Directorate at the
agency’s Headquarters in Washington.
Phase 2 of the Watts on the Moon
Challenge seeks to attract innovative
engineering approaches to integrating
power transmission and energy storage
in order to enable missions operating in
the extreme cold vacuum of the lunar
surface. Phase 2 of the Watts on the
Moon Challenge is a prize competition
with a total prize purse of $4,500,000
USD, (four and a half million United
States dollars) to be awarded to
competitor teams that build and
successfully demonstrate prototypes of
novel technologies. Successful
demonstrations from this challenge will
complement ongoing NASA
investments in lunar surface power
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generation. NASA is funding the prize
purse and administration of the
challenge competition. Any eligible
individual or organization may
participate in Phase 2. teams are not
required to have participated in Phase 1.
DATES: Phase 2 registration opens
February 23, 2022, and will remain
open until June 15, 2022. No further
requests for registration will be accepted
after this date. Other important dates,
including deadlines for key deliverables
from the teams, are listed on the
Challenge website: www.nasa.gov/
wattson.
ADDRESSES: Phase 2 of the Watts on the
Moon Challenge will be conducted
virtually, with competitor teams
developing and submitting their concept
proposals and building their prototypes
from their own locations. Eligible
finalist will test their solutions at a
NASA facility as described in the
Official Rules document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Questions and comments regarding the
challenge should be addressed to Denise
Morris, Centennial Challenges Deputy
Program Manager, NASA Marshall
Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL
35812. Phone number 256–544–3989
and Email address: hq-stmdcentennialchallenges@mail.nasa.gov.
For general information on NASA prize
competitions, challenges, and
crowdsourcing opportunities, please
visit: www.nasa.gov/solve.
To register or for additional
information regarding the Watts on the
Moon Challenge, please visit:
www.nasa.gov/wattson.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For Watts
on the Moon Phase 2, NASA is seeking
solutions that:
1. Draw power from an intermittent NASA
power source and deliver power to a
continuous NASA load bank;
2. Operate in simulated lunar temperatures
and vacuum;
3. Operate continuously without any
additional power generation;
4. Demonstrate a capability to deliver
power over a distance of 3 km; and
5. Optimize total system mass and total
system efficiency.
I. Prize Amounts
The Watts on the Moon Challenge
Phase 2 total prize purse is $4,500,000
USD (four and a half million United
States dollars) to be awarded across
Phase 2 of this competition. There will
be three (3) competition levels in Phase
2, with a prize award after each of the
three (3) levels. The winners will be
determined by a Judging Panel.
• Level 1—Up to seven (7) winning
teams with a total prize purse of
$1,400,000.
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• Level 2—Up to four (4) winning
teams with a total prize purse of
1,600,000.
• Level 3—Up to two (2) winning
teams with a total prize purse of
$1,500,000.
Teams must meet the eligibility
requirements for the NASA prize in
order to receive a prize from NASA.
II. Eligibility To Participate and Win
Prize Money
To be eligible to win a prize,
competitors must register and comply
with all requirements in the Official
Rules. Eligibility requirements include:
• Individuals must be U.S. citizens or
permanent residents of the United
States and be 18 years of age or older.
• Organizations must be an entity
incorporated in and maintaining a
primary place of business in the United
States.
• Teams must be comprised of
otherwise eligible individuals or
organizations and led by an otherwise
eligible individual or organization.
Interested teams should refer to the
official Challenge website
(www.nasa.gov/wattson) for full details
on eligibility requirements and
registration.
III. Official Rules
The complete official rules for the
Watts on the Moon Challenge, can be
found at: https://www.herox.com/
WattsOnTheMoon/guidelines.
Cheryl Parker,
NASA Federal Register Liaison Officer.
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Comment Request; Grantee
Reporting Requirements for Science
and Technology Centers (STC):
Integrative Partnerships
National Science Foundation.
Submission for OMB review;
comment request.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The National Science
Foundation (NSF) has submitted the
following information collection
requirement to OMB for review and
clearance under the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. This is the
second notice for public comment; the
first was published in the Federal
Register and one request for a copy of
the information collection was received.
NSF is forwarding the proposed renewal
submission to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for clearance
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simultaneously with the publication of
this second notice.
DATES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAmain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Suzanne H. Plimpton, Reports Clearance
Officer, National Science Foundation,
2415 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria,
VA 22314, 703–292–7556, or send email
to splimpto@nsf.gov. Individuals who
use a telecommunications device for the
deaf (TDD) may call the Federal
Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–
800–877–8339, which is accessible 24
hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a
year (including federal holidays).
Comments regarding this information
collection are best assured of having
their full effect if received within 30
days of this notification. Copies of the
submission(s) may be obtained by
calling 703–292–7556.
NSF may not conduct or sponsor a
collection of information unless the
collection of information displays a
currently valid OMB control number,
and the agency informs potential
persons who are to respond to the
collection of information that such
persons are not required to respond to
the collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title of Collection: Grantee Reporting
Requirements for Science and
Technology Centers (STC): Integrative
Partnerships.
OMB Number: 3145–0194.
Type of Request: Intent to seek
approval to extend an information
collection.
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Proposed Project
The Science and Technology Centers
(STC): Integrative Partnerships Program
supports innovation in the integrative
conduct of research, education and
knowledge transfer. Science and
Technology Centers build intellectual
and physical infrastructure within and
between disciplines, weaving together
knowledge creation, knowledge
integration, and knowledge transfer.
STCs conduct world-class research
through partnerships of academic
institutions, national laboratories,
industrial organizations, and/or other
public/private entities. New knowledge
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thus created is meaningfully linked to
society.
STCs enable and foster excellent
education, integrate research and
education, and create bonds between
learning and inquiry so that discovery
and creativity more fully support the
learning process. STCs capitalize on
diversity through participation in center
activities and demonstrate leadership in
the involvement of groups
underrepresented in science and
engineering.
Centers selected will be required to
submit annual reports on progress and
plans, which will be used as a basis for
performance review and determining
the level of continued funding. To
support this review and the
management of a Center, STCs will be
required to develop a set of management
and performance indicators for
submission annually to NSF via an NSF
evaluation technical assistance
contractor. These indicators are both
quantitative and descriptive and may
include, for example, the characteristics
of center personnel and students;
sources of financial support and in-kind
support; expenditures by operational
component; characteristics of industrial
and/or other sector participation;
research activities; education activities;
knowledge transfer activities; patents,
licenses; publications; degrees granted
to students involved in Center activities;
descriptions of significant advances and
other outcomes of the STC effort. Part of
this reporting will take the form of a
database which will be owned by the
institution and eventually made
available to an evaluation contractor.
This database will capture specific
information to demonstrate progress
towards achieving the goals of the
program. Such reporting requirements
will be included in the cooperative
agreement which is binding between the
academic institution and the NSF.
Each Center’s annual report will
address the following categories of
activities: (1) Research, (2) education,
(3) knowledge transfer, (4) partnerships,
(5) diversity, (6) management and (7)
budget issues.
For each of the categories the report
will describe overall objectives for the
year, problems the Center has
encountered in making progress towards
goals, anticipated problems in the
following year, and specific outputs and
outcomes.
Use of the Information: NSF will use
the information to continue funding of
the Centers, and to evaluate the progress
of the program.
Estimate of Burden: 100 hours per
center for twelve centers for a total of
1200 hours.
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Respondents: Non-profit institutions;
federal government.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Report: One from each of the twelve
centers.
Comments: Comments are invited on
(a) whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
Agency, including whether the
information shall have practical utility;
(b) the accuracy of the Agency’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection of information; (c) ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information on respondents,
including through the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology; and (d) ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of
information on those who are to
respond, including through the use of
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Dated: February 22, 2022.
Suzanne H. Plimpton,
Reports Clearance Officer, National Science
Foundation.
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Comment Request
National Science Foundation.
Submission for OMB review;
comment request.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The National Science
Foundation (NSF) has submitted the
following information collection
requirement to OMB for review and
clearance under the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. This is the
second notice for public comment; the
first was published in the Federal
Register and one request for a copy of
the information collection was received.
NSF is forwarding the proposed renewal
submission to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for clearance
simultaneously with the publication of
this second notice.
DATES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAmain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function.
SUMMARY:
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Agency Information Collection Activities: Comment Request;
Grantee Reporting Requirements for Science and Technology Centers
(STC): Integrative Partnerships
AGENCY: National Science Foundation.
ACTION: Submission for OMB review; comment request.
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SUMMARY: The National Science Foundation (NSF) has submitted the
following information collection requirement to OMB for review and
clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This is the second
notice for public comment; the first was published in the Federal
Register and one request for a copy of the information collection was
received. NSF is forwarding the proposed renewal submission to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for clearance
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simultaneously with the publication of this second notice.
DATES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAmain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Suzanne H. Plimpton, Reports Clearance
Officer, National Science Foundation, 2415 Eisenhower Avenue,
Alexandria, VA 22314, 703-292-7556, or send email to [email protected].
Individuals who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may
call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339,
which is accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year
(including federal holidays). Comments regarding this information
collection are best assured of having their full effect if received
within 30 days of this notification. Copies of the submission(s) may be
obtained by calling 703-292-7556.
NSF may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless
the collection of information displays a currently valid OMB control
number, and the agency informs potential persons who are to respond to
the collection of information that such persons are not required to
respond to the collection of information unless it displays a currently
valid OMB control number.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title of Collection: Grantee Reporting Requirements for Science and
Technology Centers (STC): Integrative Partnerships.
OMB Number: 3145-0194.
Type of Request: Intent to seek approval to extend an information
collection.
Proposed Project
The Science and Technology Centers (STC): Integrative Partnerships
Program supports innovation in the integrative conduct of research,
education and knowledge transfer. Science and Technology Centers build
intellectual and physical infrastructure within and between
disciplines, weaving together knowledge creation, knowledge
integration, and knowledge transfer. STCs conduct world-class research
through partnerships of academic institutions, national laboratories,
industrial organizations, and/or other public/private entities. New
knowledge thus created is meaningfully linked to society.
STCs enable and foster excellent education, integrate research and
education, and create bonds between learning and inquiry so that
discovery and creativity more fully support the learning process. STCs
capitalize on diversity through participation in center activities and
demonstrate leadership in the involvement of groups underrepresented in
science and engineering.
Centers selected will be required to submit annual reports on
progress and plans, which will be used as a basis for performance
review and determining the level of continued funding. To support this
review and the management of a Center, STCs will be required to develop
a set of management and performance indicators for submission annually
to NSF via an NSF evaluation technical assistance contractor. These
indicators are both quantitative and descriptive and may include, for
example, the characteristics of center personnel and students; sources
of financial support and in-kind support; expenditures by operational
component; characteristics of industrial and/or other sector
participation; research activities; education activities; knowledge
transfer activities; patents, licenses; publications; degrees granted
to students involved in Center activities; descriptions of significant
advances and other outcomes of the STC effort. Part of this reporting
will take the form of a database which will be owned by the institution
and eventually made available to an evaluation contractor. This
database will capture specific information to demonstrate progress
towards achieving the goals of the program. Such reporting requirements
will be included in the cooperative agreement which is binding between
the academic institution and the NSF.
Each Center's annual report will address the following categories
of activities: (1) Research, (2) education, (3) knowledge transfer, (4)
partnerships, (5) diversity, (6) management and (7) budget issues.
For each of the categories the report will describe overall
objectives for the year, problems the Center has encountered in making
progress towards goals, anticipated problems in the following year, and
specific outputs and outcomes.
Use of the Information: NSF will use the information to continue
funding of the Centers, and to evaluate the progress of the program.
Estimate of Burden: 100 hours per center for twelve centers for a
total of 1200 hours.
Respondents: Non-profit institutions; federal government.
Estimated Number of Responses per Report: One from each of the
twelve centers.
Comments: Comments are invited on (a) whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the Agency, including whether the information shall
have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the Agency's estimate of
the burden of the proposed collection of information; (c) ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information on
respondents, including through the use of automated collection
techniques or other forms of information technology; and (d) ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are
to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Dated: February 22, 2022.
Suzanne H. Plimpton,
Reports Clearance Officer, National Science Foundation.
[FR Doc. 2022-03974 Filed 2-24-22; 8:45 am]
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