URI IACR NSF 26-512 and 26-513 summary (web)
Citation
University of Rhode Island (URI), Institute for AI and Computational Research (IACR). “NSF Opens New AI Infrastructure and AI-Ready Dataset Opportunities.” Web post, September 1, 2026. https://web.uri.edu/iacr/?p=747. Read 2026-11-09.
Bottom line
- A short post by a university AI institute on two National Science Foundation (NSF) programs.
- The programs are NSF 26-513, State and Regional AI Infrastructure Hubs, and NSF 26-512, AI Datasets.
- Both had full proposals due November 4, 2026. It gives the award sizes of each.
Background
IACR is the Institute for AI and Computational Research at URI. The page footer gives URI’s address in Kingston, Rhode Island. The post tells URI researchers about the two programs and links to both NSF solicitations. The library has NSF 26-513 solicitation but no copy of the NSF 26-512 solicitation.
Key claims
- “Both have full proposal deadlines of November 4, 2026.” (opening)
- NSF 26-513 “supports state or regional consortia that expand access to computing, data, software, training, and workforce-development capacity for AI-enabled scientific discovery.” (NSF State and Regional AI Infrastructure Hubs)
- “NSF anticipates cooperative agreements of roughly $4 million to $12 million over five years.” (NSF State and Regional AI Infrastructure Hubs)
- NSF 26-512 “supports work that makes existing scientific community datasets more useful for AI-enabled discovery.” (NSF AI Datasets)
- “Suitable activities include metadata generation, data integration, harmonization, AI-ready pipelines, governance, and dataset security.” (NSF AI Datasets)
- “NSF anticipates planning grants up to $200,000, impact awards up to $2 million, and flagship awards up to $5 million.” (NSF AI Datasets)
Evidence and method
A secondary summary of two federal solicitations, of about 400 words. It gives no data of its own. It says the programs “may fit teams building shared scientific data resources, developing AI-ready research workflows, organizing regional compute partnerships, or designing training around advanced computing and AI infrastructure.”
Limits
- The post does not give the eligibility rules, the number of awards or the review criteria of either program.
- For NSF 26-512, the post is the only record in the library.
- It does not mention California or CalCompute.