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class="block block-layout-builder block-inline-blockcomponent-text nsf-component"> <section class="text__container"> <h2 id="who-we-partner-with-261" class="text__title">Who we partner with</h2> </section> </div> </div> </div> <div class="nsf-layout--inner"> <div class="layout__region layout__region--first"> <div class="block block-layout-builder block-inline-blockcomponent-accordion nsf-component usa-accordion js-first-collapsed"> <h2 class="usa-accordion__heading"> <button type="button" class="usa-accordion__button" aria-controls="item-1r1512937009" aria-expanded="true" > Government </button> </h2><div class="usa-accordion__content text-formatted field field-accordion" id="item-1r1512937009" class="field field-accordion" data-component-id="nsf_theme:accordion-item"> <p><p>NSF partners with federal agencies and state, tribal and local governments.</p><p>NSF's governmental partnerships focus on:</p><ul><li>Advancing partners' shared goals by leveraging existing expertise and reducing redundancy across the U.S. research and education portfolio.</li><li>Bringing the partners' communities together and streamlining the proposal review process.</li><li>Sharing information and resources to boost research productivity and enhance its benefits to society.</li><li>Investing in components of complex projects that fulfill each partner's mission and contribute to their shared scientific goals.</li></ul></p> </div> <h2 class="usa-accordion__heading"> <button type="button" class="usa-accordion__button" aria-controls="item-2y657453522" aria-expanded="true" > Industry </button> </h2><div class="usa-accordion__content text-formatted field field-accordion" id="item-2y657453522" class="field field-accordion" data-component-id="nsf_theme:accordion-item"> <p><p>NSF partners with industry to advance research and education with the potential to benefit society.</p><p>NSF's industry partnerships focus on:</p><ul><li>Providing the research community with use-inspired research problems, accelerating the translation of basic research to the market, and supporting the development of the workforce at all levels.</li><li>Enabling industry to tap into the full breadth of the nation's academic research community that NSF reaches, and to benefit from NSF's merit review process to select the best proposals.</li><li>Providing industry opportunities to work with students, the talent base for future researchers, practitioners, technicians, educators and entrepreneurs.</li><li>Helping industry leverage intellectual property resulting from jointly funded activities, via the same licensing terms that the federal government has.</li><li>Pooling public and private resources to share the risks of early-stage research and amplify its benefits.</li></ul></p> </div> <h2 class="usa-accordion__heading"> <button type="button" class="usa-accordion__button" aria-controls="item-3o1191834128" aria-expanded="true" > Nonprofits </button> </h2><div class="usa-accordion__content text-formatted 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research communities in the U.S. and other countries.</p> <p>NSF's international partnerships focus on:</p> <ul> <li>Providing the U.S. research community with access to expert international collaborators who have complementary expertise or who are working on topics of mutual interest.</li> <li>Giving U.S. researchers and educators access to unique facilities, infrastructure, field sites, logistical support and data sets.</li> <li>Building shared best practices, contributing to creating global expectations and norms for addressing conflicts of interest and other ethical issues in science and engineering.</li> </ul></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="layout__region layout__region--second"> <div class="cta block block-layout-builder block-inline-blockcomponent-cta nsf-component" class="block block-layout-builder block-inline-blockcomponent-cta nsf-component" data-media-id="9442" data-is-footer-caption-credit 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The agency's informal partnerships may include joint sponsorship of workshops or the exchange of in-kind resources in joint support of facilities, logistics or infrastructure.</p></div> </section> </div> </div> </div> <div class="nsf-layout--inner"> <div class="layout__region layout__region--first"> <div class="block block-layout-builder block-inline-blockcomponent-accordion nsf-component usa-accordion js-first-collapsed"> <h2 class="usa-accordion__heading"> <button type="button" class="usa-accordion__button" aria-controls="item-1A2096045248" aria-expanded="true" > Advancing national security with the U.S. Air Force </button> </h2><div class="usa-accordion__content text-formatted field field-accordion" id="item-1A2096045248" class="field field-accordion" data-component-id="nsf_theme:accordion-item"> <p><p>NSF deepened ties with the U.S. Air Force, a longtime provider of critical logistical support for polar research, through a letter of intent. Together, NSF and the Air Force are working to advance national security research in areas of common interest, such as space operations and geosciences, advanced materials sciences, information and data sciences, and workforce development.</p></p> </div> <h2 class="usa-accordion__heading"> <button type="button" class="usa-accordion__button" aria-controls="item-2r325273172" aria-expanded="true" > Advancing knowledge about agriculture, food security and natural resources with the U.S. Department of Agriculture </button> </h2><div class="usa-accordion__content text-formatted field field-accordion" id="item-2r325273172" class="field field-accordion" data-component-id="nsf_theme:accordion-item"> <p><p>NSF and USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture are advancing initiatives aimed at critical resources such as digital agriculture, food security, energy and water quality through a memorandum of understanding. The partnership encourages information sharing about project activities and joint support in areas of mutual interest.</p></p> </div> <h2 class="usa-accordion__heading"> <button type="button" class="usa-accordion__button" aria-controls="item-3a1860962887" aria-expanded="true" > Supporting graduate research experiences at federal agencies </button> </h2><div class="usa-accordion__content text-formatted field field-accordion" id="item-3a1860962887" class="field field-accordion" data-component-id="nsf_theme:accordion-item"> <p><p>Through the NSF Graduate Research Internship Program, NSF partners with nine federal agencies providing additional research options for NSF Graduate Research Fellows at federal facilities and national laboratories in areas of national priority. Opportunities have included positions in astrophysics at the Smithsonian Institution, natural resource management at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and mineral studies at the U.S. Geological Survey.</p></p> </div> <h2 class="usa-accordion__heading"> <button type="button" class="usa-accordion__button" aria-controls="item-4822874916" aria-expanded="true" > Supporting the National Center for Atmospheric Research </button> </h2><div class="usa-accordion__content text-formatted field field-accordion" id="item-4822874916" class="field field-accordion" data-component-id="nsf_theme:accordion-item"> <p><p>NSF and multiple federal agencies support the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a research and development center that advances world-class research in the atmospheric and related earth system sciences.</p><p>The center has expanded the understanding of many atmospheric occurrences, including geohazards such as hurricanes, geomagnetic storms and wildfires. 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