NASA Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research Research Infrastructure Development Funding Augmentation

The NASA West Virginia Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) respectfully requests augmentation of $25,000 to its fiscal year 2020-21 Research Infrastructure Development (RID) Program budget and $50,000 to its FY 2021-22 budget to better serve its constituents and to extend the benefits of NASA’s research and infrastructure development to all faculty, researchers and students in West Virginia. The additional funding will enable us to increase our investment in programs to support our Research Seed Grants, other community outreach projects, and more resources for our researchers to travel to NASA Centers and technical and scientific meetings. This augmentation request was developed by a subcommittee of the NASA WV EPSCoR state-wide committee. No additional funding will go towards personnel salaries at the NASA WV EPSCoR/WVSGC office. In the following sections, we have included the budget tables for years 2 and 3, with and without augmentation, and justification details.

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