DOE launches ARPA-E.

In a speech to the National Academy of Sciences, President Obama outlined a bold commitment to basic and applied research, innovation and education. The President announced that for the first time, the US is funding the Advanced Research Projects Agency--Energy, or ARPA-E.

ARPA-E's mission is to create transformational energy-related technologies for the nation, focusing on developing energy technologies to reduce imports of energy, to reduce energy-related emissions including greenhouse gases, and to improve energy efficiency in all economic sectors.

ARPA-E has released its first solicitation. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA DEFOA-0000065) is funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The FOA is narrowly focused on transformational R&D, but intentionally broad on applications and technologies. This announcement is open to the full range of concepts potentially covering all aspects of ARPA-E's Mission Areas. The intent is to harness the creativity of all sectors of the American science and technology communities to advance the ARPA-E Mission Areas and stimulate the pursuit of new and innovative technical opportunities that can spur great leaps forward within those mission impact areas.

The FOA is published on the FedConnect website, www.FedConnect.net, and on the FedBizOpps website, www.fedbizopps.gov/or may be accessed on the ARPA-E website at http://arpae.energy.gov/keydocs/ARPA-E-FOA.PDF

For additional information about ARPA-E, please visit http://arpa-e.energy.gov/index.html