Closed · DE-FOA-0002134 · CFDA 81.135 · Discretionary

RFI - Energy Efficient Integrated Photonic Networking Technologies

Federal grant opportunity posted by Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy, cataloged on Grants.gov.

$1-$1
Award range
Closed
Status
June 14, 2019
Close date
1
Expected awards

The verdict

RFI - Energy Efficient Integrated Photonic Networking Technologies is a closed discretionary listing from Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy that offered $1 -- $1 across 1 expected award. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 183 other opportunities from Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy.

$1-$1
award range
Closed
application status
1
expected award
81.135
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

RFI - Energy Efficient Integrated Photonic Ne… is closed (last close June 14, 2019). The parent program page for CFDA 81.135 is the reliable place to catch re-announcements. Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy still indexes 183 other opportunities here.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

Application window closed

Closed June 14, 2019

Posted May 15 Closes Jun 14

Est. Total Funding

$1

Expected Awards

1

Instrument

Other

Description

Request For Information (RFI) - Energy Efficient Integrated Photonic Networking Technologies. This is a Request for Information only. This RFI is not accepting applications for financial assistance. The purpose of this RFI is solely to solicit input for ARPA-E consideration to inform the possible formulation of future programs. The Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) of the United States Department of Energy is seeking information concerning the current state of development of energy efficient photonic technologies for communication networks within datacenter and high-performance computing (HPC) systems. ARPA-E is interested in technologies which have the potential to enable a transformative improvement in performance and efficiency of datacenter and HPC systems as compared to the state of the art. Specifically, ARPA-E is interested in learning of technologies that can meet the technical metrics originally outlined in the ENLITENED FOA DE-FOA-0001566, but that are not currently funded under the portfolio of projects in the ARPA-E ENLITENED program. ARPA-E is seeking information on technologies at an advanced level of development, albeit prior to commercialization and full-scale production. ARPA-E is not interested in early stage technologies which are unproven or not yet reduced to practice in the form of an operational device/component/subsystem. Depending on the responses to this RFI, ARPA-E may consider the rapid initiation of a competition that would result in one or more funded collaborative research projects to advance the state of the art in integrated photonic networking technologies. Please carefully review the REQUEST FOR INFORMATION GUIDELINES below. Please note, in particular, that the information you provide will be used by ARPA-E solely for program planning, without attribution. THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ONLY. THIS NOTICE DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A FUNDING OPPORTUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT (FOA). NO FOA EXISTS AT THIS TIME.

Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · DE-FOA-0002134

Grants.gov marks RFI - Energy Efficient Integrated Photonic Ne… with a catch-all / unrestricted eligibility code (Unrestricted / see official listing). Read the official announcement text for the real applicant filter — the code alone is not a door list. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Other. Funding-activity code maps to Science and Technology / R&D (ST). This eligibility-code string dominates the Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy book (138 peers, 75% of 184).

Code 99
Unrestricted / see official listing

Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.

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Parent Grant Program

CFDA 81.135

Environmental Cleanup

U.S. Department of Energy

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Agency Contact

ARPA-E CO arpa-e-co@hq.doe.gov

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What to do next

RFI - Energy Efficient Integrated Photonic Ne… is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.

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