Assistance program
Joint Fire Science Program
$35.3 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management, Interior, Department of the
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements (Discretionary Grants)
- CFDA number
- 15.232
- What it does
- The Joint Fire Science Program encourages interested parties to perform research and studies pertaining to wildland fire and resource management, to enhance decision-making ability of fire, fuels, natural resource, and land managers and others to meet management objectives. This program solicits research and science delivery proposals that respond to its announcements for proposals that seek information on workforce development including Graduate Research Innovation (GRIN), the Fire Science Exchange Network (FSEN), and critical wildland fire and fuels management research needs.
- Who benefits
- Anyone/General Public.
- Who applies
- Not Applicable
- Authorized by
- Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, Public Law 94-579, 43 U.S.C. § §1737 (b)
- Program site
- https://www.firescience.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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