From Name: From Email: To Name: To Email: Optional Message: NIST posts Federal Funding Opportunity for community disaster resilience Center of Excellence from IAEM The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has posted a Federal Funding Opportunity for a new research Center of Excellence to work with academia and industry on issues in community disaster resilience. NIST will select an awardee based on a merit competition to establish the center, which will be funded at up to $4 million a year for five years. NIST Centers of Excellence are meant to provide multidisciplinary research centers where experts from academia, industry and NIST can work together on specific high-priority research topics. The center will work on developing integrated, systems-based computational models to assess community infrastructure resilience and guide community-level resilience investment decisions. The proposed center also would develop a data management infrastructure, as well as tools and best practices to improve the collection of disaster and resilience data. Download the proposal announcement. more 7701 Las Colinas Blvd., Ste. 800, Irving, TX 75063