Closed · HR001123S0012 · CFDA 12.910 · Discretionary
Ceres
Federal grant opportunity posted by DARPA - Biological Technologies Office, cataloged on Grants.gov.
- Varies
- Award range
- Closed
- Status
- January 11, 2023
- Close date
- -
- Expected awards
The verdict
Ceres is a closed discretionary listing from DARPA - Biological Technologies Office that offered Varies by applicant. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 73 other opportunities from DARPA - Biological Technologies Office.
- Varies
- award range
- Closed
- application status
- 12.910
- CFDA program
- 73
- other opportunities from DARPA - Biological Technologies Office
Archived opportunity record
Ceres is closed (last close January 11, 2023). Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. DARPA - Biological Technologies Office still indexes 73 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 January 11, 2023
Instrument
Procurement Contract
Description
Conventional soil bioremediation is laborious, inefficient, and expensive, requiring soil preparation, nutrient delivery to remediating organisms, and continuous site monitoring. Plants and their rhizosphere microbiomes have innate potential to inexpensively perform the costliest aspects of bioremediation—soil preparation, nutrient augmentation, and site monitoring—without routine human intervention. Leveraging the inherent plant-rhizosphere community, Ceres will enhance community performance by engineering synthetic communities to achieve autonomous bioremediation of a fuel, JP-8, and an explosive, TNT, from soil while overtly reporting the status of this remediation. Advances in both synthetic biology and synthetic ecology will be used to create and optimize these sophisticated synthetic communities.
Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · HR001123S0012
Grants.gov marks Ceres with a catch-all / unrestricted eligibility code (Others (see official listing text)). 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: Procurement Contract. Funding-activity code maps to Science and Technology / R&D (ST). This eligibility-code string dominates the DARPA - Biological Technologies Office book (44 peers, 59% of 74).
- Code 25
- Others (see official listing text)
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.
Official Listing on Grants.gov
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Agency Contact
BAA Coordinator Ceres@darpa.mil
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