Assistance program
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Cooperative Institutes
$2.3 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Commerce, Department of
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements
- CFDA number
- 11.432
- What it does
- To increase the effectiveness of research and develop innovative approaches to education in the environmental sciences by facilitating cooperation between government, university, and nonprofit research institutions.
- Who benefits
- Organizations with interests in support of the NOAA mission to understand and predict changes in the Earth's environment and conserve and manage the Earth's systems to meet the nations' economic, social, and environmental needs.
- Who applies
- Single or multiple non-federal public and private non-profit universities, colleges and research institutions that collectively offer accredited graduate level degree-granting programs in NOAA related sciences.
- Authorized by
- Department of Commerce Appropriation Act of 1999
- Cooperative Agreements/Reimbursement to Further NOAA’s Mission
- Public Law 108-7
- Program site
- https://ci.noaa.gov ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
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- Some recipients aren't itemized
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- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
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Direct payments