Infrastructure Systems and People (ISP)

The U.S. National Science Foundation is seeking proposals for research on infrastructure systems and their impact on people and communities. The program aims to improve the efficiency, sustainability, resilience, and fair use of infrastructure systems by supporting research on their design, operations, and performance assessment. The program encourages interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary exploration, including novel system integration, user-inspired system and service design, data analytics, and socio-technical studies. • The program supports research on lifeline systems and communities that contributes to the National Science Foundation's role in the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) and the National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program (NWIRP). • The program values innovative research efforts focused on collecting, standardizing, and sharing large-scale databases of real-world infrastructure systems and people-infrastructure interactions. • Proposers are encouraged to leverage NSF's investments in the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) experimental, computational modeling and simulation, and data resources in their research. • The program does not support research whose primary methodological contribution focuses on individual infrastructure components without a systems research perspective.