Grants and Cooperative Agreements

Current & upcoming funding opportunities

Funding opportunities are a staple of public-private partnerships. PSCR has been proud to work with over 200 public safety agencies, academic researchers, and industry partners in both technological and social areas, to support our mission and accelerate the advancement of public safety communications technologies. 

While there are currently no open or upcoming funding opportunities available from PSCR, we encourage you to sign up to our mailing list and select “Grants and Cooperative Agreements,” as an area of interest to ensure you are the first to know if any additional funding becomes available. 

Past funding opportunities

A full list of past PSCR funding opportunities with program descriptions and funding amounts can be found on the Past Funding Opportunities page. 

Updates

Looking for more details about individual funding opportunities? Check out the announcements below for specifics on individual award programs and the problems they seek to solve.  

• PSCR Awards More than $10M for Final Major Funding Opportunity
• PSCR Announces $7M Award Program
• PSCR Awards $9.7M for Augmented Reality Funding Opportunity
• PSCR Awards $8M for First Responder 3D Indoor Tracking Prize
• PSCR Awards Over $6M for R&D Supporting Mission Critical Voice Test Equipment
• New NIST Funding Opportunity Highlights Gap in Public Safety Device Standards
• PSCR Awards Over $750K for PSIAP Point Cloud City
• Up to $5 Million in Awards - Public Safety Innovation Acceleration Program User Interface Opportunity
• NIST Awards $38.5 Million to Accelerate Public Safety Communications Technologies

Award recipient success stories

For information about specific award recipient projects and the valuable work they are doing, take a look at the following feature articles detailing the concrete solutions developed by members of industry and academia. 

• Extreme Reality Telemetry for First Responders
• NIST Award Recipient Cracks the Code on Public Safety Devices
• First Responders Need Data. Can LTE Networks Come to the Rescue?
• Tracking Location from the Sole of a Shoe
• Using Lasers to Save Lives
• A Responder's Critical Path
• Wildland Data Logistics Network: Always there with delay
• The Spectronn SiFi Router
• Fire Data Lab: bringing fire service data analytics into the twenty-first century
• PSIAP Award Recipient Deploys Technology at the 2019 Boston Marathon
• Leveraging PSCR research and demonstrating the power of collaboration

Other Funding Opportunities

Grants and cooperative agreements are not the only way PSCR supports public safety innovation. We also manage prize challenges that allow the public to solve problems and receive awards for the best solutions. To view Prize Challenge opportunities, visit PSCR's Open Innovation Prize Challenges page.