Pursuant to a recent judicial decision regarding grant awards based on US Code Title 10 U.S.C.

2323 (Rothe Development Corp.

v.

U.

S.

Dept.

of Defense, et.

al., No.

SA-98-CA-IOII-XR (W.D.

TX 29 February 2009),

credit: BLOCK BY BLOCK/UN HABITAT

the 2009 NGA Historically Black Colleges & Universities And Minority Institutions Educational Research Initiative (HBCU/MI ERI) BAA (HM1582-09-BAA-0002) has been cancelled.

This 2009 NGA University Research Initiatives (NURI) BAA is being reopened to allow institutions that competed for a 2009 HBCU/MI ERI grant to resubmit applications for a 2009 NURI grant under 2009 NURI BAA guidelines.

Changes to the NURI BAA are in blue text.

Sentences deleted from paragraphs as a result of the above judicial decision are annotated with a blue sidebar.

Administrative changes are also annotated with a blue sidebar.

Changes are in the Header, Overview, 3. 2, 4. 1, 4. 2. 1, 4. 5, 4. 6, and 7. 1 only.

All previously submitted 2009 NURI proposals that were acknowledged as accepted by grants.gov for the 2009 NURI BAA are being retained and will be evaluated for grant award along with any new proposals received during the revised submission period.

Offerors are encouraged to NOT resubmit previously accepted 2009 NURI proposals to avoid potential confusion and redundancy with the previously accepted proposals.

If you are not satisfied with your proposal as submitted under HM1582-09-BAA-0003 and wish to resubmit, please clearly annotate that this is a resubmission and we will delete the previous submission.

IF YOU ARE SATISFIED WITH YOUR PROPOSAL SUBMITTED UNDER HM1582-09-BAA-0003 AND YOUR PROPOSAL WAS ACCEPTED BY GRANTS.GOV, YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESUBMIT.

This Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), by the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), announces the Fiscal Year 2009 competition for the NGA University Research Initiatives (NURI) program.

The program focuses on specific research topics in geospatial-intelligence analysis and its related technologies.

This includes research to help improve analyst abilities as well as to provide better automated capabilities in the analyst environment.

The NURI program awards multi-year grants to address NGAÂ’s needs.

The program is a component of the NGA Academic Research Program (NARP).

Grants will be awarded as a result of this BAA.