Closed · DE-FOA-0002239 · CFDA 81.135 · Discretionary

AVIATION-CLASS SYNERGISTICALLY COOLED ELECTRIC-MOTORS WITH INTEGRATED DRIVES (ASCEND) SBIR/STTR

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

$257K-$3.7M
Award range
Closed
Status
May 22, 2020
Close date
12
Expected awards

The verdict

AVIATION-CLASS SYNERGISTICALLY COOLED ELECTRIC-MOTORS WITH INTEGRATED DRIVES (ASCEND) SBIR/STTR is a closed discretionary listing from Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy that offered $256,580 -- $3,677,642 across 12 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 183 other opportunities from Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy.

$257K-$3.7M
award range
Closed
application status
12
expected awards
81.135
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

AVIATION-CLASS SYNERGISTICALLY COOLED ELECTRI… is closed (last close May 22, 2020). 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 May 22, 2020

Posted Dec 16 Closes May 22

Est. Total Funding

$35,000,000

Expected Awards

12

Instrument

Cooperative Agreement

Description

AVIATION-CLASS SYNERGISTICALLY COOLED ELECTRIC-MOTORS WITH INTEGRATED DRIVES (ASCEND) SBIR/STTR The purpose of this modification is to incorporate changes to the Funding Opportunity Announcement, DE-FOA-0002239. Accordingly, this modification: • Inserted certain deadlines, including the deadlines for submitting questions and Full Applications. Modified Anticipated Award Range. See Cover Page and Required Documents Checklist. • Changed naming from ASCEND Phase I and ASCEND Phase II to ASCEND Phase 1 and ASCEND Phase 2, to clearly distinguish from SBIR/STTR Phases (i.e., Phases I, II, and IIS). • Updated Section I.E.3 Program Structures and Deliverables • Updated Section II.A Award Overview. • Revised the following sections of the FOA to provide guidance on required application forms and the content and form of Full Applications and Replies to Reviewer Comments: Required Documents Checklist and Sections IV.A, IV.D, IV.E, and IV.G of the FOA. Applicants are strongly encouraged to use the templates provided on ARPA‐E eXCHANGE (https://arpa‐e‐foa.energy.gov). • Inserted criteria that ARPA‐E will use to evaluate Full Applications, see Section V.A.2 of the FOA. • Inserted criteria that ARPA‐E will use to evaluate Replies to Reviewer Comments in Section V.A.3 of the FOA. • Inserted an additional Program Policy Factor in Section V.B.1. • Inserted information on the anticipated announcement and award dates, see Section V.C of the FOA. • Inserted information concerning Full Application Notifications, see Section VI.A.3 of the FOA. • Inserted Administrative and National Policy Requirements, see Section VI.B of the FOA. • Inserted Reporting Requirements, see Section VI.C of the FOA. • Inserted additional Definitions, see Section IX of the FOA. To obtain a copy of the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) please go to the ARPA-E website at https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov. ARPA-E will not review or consider submissions submitted through other means. For detailed guidance on using ARPA-E eXCHANGE, please refer to the ARPA-E eXCHANGE User Guide at https://arpa-e-foa-energy.gov/Manuals.aspx.

Small-business / for-profit corridor · DE-FOA-0002239

AVIATION-CLASS SYNERGISTICALLY COOLED ELECTRI… prints a for-profit / small-business applicant door (Small businesses). Treat the listing as business-facing unless the full Grants.gov announcement narrows it further. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Cooperative Agreement. Funding-activity code maps to Science and Technology / R&D (ST). 35 other Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy listings share this eligibility-code string (19% of 184).

Code 23
Small businesses

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

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

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What to do next

AVIATION-CLASS SYNERGISTICALLY COOLED ELECTRI… is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.

  • Parent CFDA 81.135 may publish future NOFOs under the same assistance listing. Open program
  • Environmental Cleanup indexes 2 Grants.gov listings in this extract. Program profile
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