Federal Funding Opportunities

FEDIX Opportunity Alert!!! (FOA) is a free e-mail service funded by the federal government that automatically delivers targeted research and education funding opportunities, including computer engineering opportunities, to researchers, educators and students. In its first year of operation the service has logged more than 30,000 subscribers, who have so far received over 2 million opportunity alerts. Users can subscribe to FOA by going to http://www.rams-fie.com/oppalert.htm, registering and selecting the keywords representing their research interests.

Beginning with the next business day, the system will search all new or updated announcements in the "FEDIX" database of federal opportunities, including the Commerce Business Daily and the NIH Guide, looking for matches to the keywords. FOA will then automatically e-mail the URL and a short introduction of each announcement that matches the user's research interest profile.

FEDIX is an Internet-based service that provides comprehensive information about federal opportunities to the research and higher-education communities nationwide. With 11 sponsoring federal agencies, 8,000 data files and about 70,000 unique Web sites using it each month, FEDIX has become an important electronic means of bridging the information gap between government and academia with regard to research and education programs.

Researchers and educators can search FEDIX themselves or subscribe to FOA and have targeted opportunities sent to them automatically via FEDIX Opportunity Alert!!!.

FEDIX was developed under an Energy Department grant and is sponsored by its participating agencies. The service is free to users. Participating agencies include the departments of Energy, Transportation, Agriculture and Veterans Affairs; NASA; the Air Force Office of Scientific Research; the National Institutes of Health; the Office of Naval Research; the Agency for International Development; the DISA Center for Software; and the Interagency Learning Technology Office.