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Facility and Instrumentation Request Process

Funds atmospheric research that needs NSF's shared observing facilities — aircraft, radars and community instruments — and is the only route to them.

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NSF's atmospheric and geospace sciences division pays for a set of specialised observing facilities that individual researchers could never own: the Lower Atmosphere Observing Facilities and the Community Instruments and Facilities programmes. This notice is how the research community asks to use them.

It is not a side channel. Every proposal to the division that needs one of these assets has to

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Each grant below is a distinct funding opportunity with its own eligibility, scope, and deliverables.

Last verified: 27 Aug 2026Source: www.nsf.gov