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CHIPS Research and Development Office (CRDO) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)

National Institute of Standards and Technology · Opportunity 2025-NIST-CHIPS-CRDO-01

Deadline September 15, 2026 6 days left
Award range From $10M
Total program funding
PostedSeptember 24, 2025

Who can apply

Eligible applicants are for-profit organizations; non-profit organizations; accredited institutions of higher education; Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs), and Federal entities (e.g., Federal departments and agencies – see Section III.3). Eligible applicants must be a domestic entity. Individuals and unincorporated sole proprietors are not eligible to receive funding under this BAA. Eligible subawardees include all eligible applicants as well as foreign partners not otherwise prohibited (e.g., foreign adversaries), subject to compliance with specific requirements (see Section VI). CRDO strongly recommends that Federal entities and FFRDCs seeking to respond to this BAA as an applicant first contact the CRDO POC to discuss eligibility; in areas of mutual interest, alternative funding mechanisms may be pursued independent of this BAA.

About this opportunity

NIST is soliciting proposals from eligible applicants for research, prototyping, and commercial solutions that advance microelectronics technology in the U.S., to be considered for funding by the CHIPS Research and Development Office (CRDO).

Award history — CHIPS Research and Development (Assistance Listing 11.042)

This program made about 4 new awards per year over the last five fiscal years.

New awards by fiscal year ’21: 0 · ’22: 0 · ’23: 0 · ’24: 18 · ’25: 0
Award size (min / median / max) $257k / $290k / $5M

Across the 18 most recent awards. Total obligations, not per-year.

New awards recorded on USAspending.gov under the federal program that funds this opportunity. FY2025 figures may still be incomplete. National Institute of Standards and Technology does not publish how many applications it receives, so a true success rate cannot be computed for this program — no one can honestly sell you that number.

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