Assistance program
Pipeline Safety Research Competitive Academic Agreement Program (CAAP)
$22.9 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, Transportation, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 20.724
- What it does
- The CAAP initiative is intended to spur innovation by enabling an academic research focus on high-risk and high pay-off solutions for the many pipeline safety challenges. It will potentially deliver solutions that can be “hand-offs†to PHMSA’s core research program of demonstration and deployment. The goal would be to validate proof of concept of a thesis or theory all the way to commercial introduction into the market. Further, the pipeline industry and federal/state regulators are experiencing low numbers of applicants to entry level positions that are technically focused. As such, another goal of the CAAP program is to expose graduate and PhD research students to subject matter that is common to pipeline safety challenges and to illustrate how their engineering or technical disciplines are highly needed in the field. The ultimate benefit would be to cultivate new talent in all aspects of pipelines, similar to how programs at other Federal Agencies and non-profit organizations have encouraged talent to consider a career in a certain field.
- Who benefits
- Solutions from academic research agreements to non-profit institutions of higher education will benefit the American public who have interest in safety, innovation, efficiency, and accelerating movement of goods/product of energy.
- Who applies
- Applicants must be non-profit institutions of higher education located in the United States or a U.S. territory or possession.
- Authorized by
- Pipeline Safety Improvement Act of 2002
- Program site
- http://www.phmsa.dot.gov/pipeline ↗
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* 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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