USGS Gulf Coast CESU: Southern Great Plains Innovation Landscape

The USGS is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner to develop an Innovation Landscape in the Southern Great Plains for the purpose of accelerating the transfer of new land management technologies to military installations in the region. The partner will possess both military and natural resource expertise, experience, and established relationships to be able to accurately identify innovation needs and scalable solutions in the natural resource focus area to support the military mission, increase regulatory flexibility for Department of War (DoW), and facilitate military use of the land.

This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESU) Program. CESU"s are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education. Eligible recipients must be a participating partner of the Gulf Coast Cooperative.

Agency: Geological Survey; opportunity number: G26AS00124.

Funding category: ST.

Applicants should review the full notice package for objectives, required forms, review criteria, and federal compliance rules.

Award ceiling: USD 460,000; Award floor: USD 1; Total funding: USD 460,000

2026-06-29; posted 2026-05-29: 2026-06-29; posted 2026-05-29: Jun 29, 2026.

Confirm the exact deadline time, time zone, and submission route on the official call page.

Plan internal approvals, partner confirmations, budgets, letters, and portal submission before the final deadline.

Apply through the official Grants.gov listing for opportunity G26AS00124. Deadline/key date: 2026-06-29.

Before submitting, check required documents, eligible costs, attachments, page limits, institutional approvals, and whether the opportunity uses an expression of interest, full proposal, registration, or nomination stage.