EERE National Laboratory Guiding Principles require all offices to pursue a merit review of direct-funded national laboratory work. In line with these Principles, the Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) is issuing this lab call for Fiscal Year 2021 (FY 2021) funding. VTO will award only a portion of its total planned FY 2021 lab funding through this lab call process. Labs are also selected through the standard Financial Opportunity Announcement (FOA) process and are not restricted from applying to any FOAs.
There is approximately $27 million in annual funding to fund all projects with the potential for future year funding pending appropriations, Program direction, and go/no-go decision points.
Some labs also have continuing multi-year projects that have already gone through the merit review process. These will continue to be reviewed through the annual peer review process and labs should work with VTO project and program managers to ensure that ongoing projects are appropriately included in the AOPs to meet AOP deadlines. This lab call will only pertain to the new AOIs below.
Summary of AOIs:
AOI 1: Joining Core Program Phase 2
AOI 2: Lightweight Metals Core Program
AOI 3: Intermetallic Silicon –based Anodes
AOI 4: Artificial Intelligence for Mobility
AOI 5: High Power Charging Profiles
AOI 6: Threat Mitigation and Operational Smoothing for Charging Stations