Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation
Due Dates: See PESOSE solicitation for submission deadlines
Funding Amounts: See PESOSE solicitation for award details
Summary: Supports open-source ecosystems advancing shared protocols for secure, interoperable, and scalable networks of autonomous AI agents.
Key Information: Research must remain unclassified and publicly releasable.
Description
This National Science Foundation Dear Colleague Letter encourages proposals to the Pathways to Enable Secure Open-Source Ecosystems (PESOSE) program focused on protocols enabling AI agent ecosystems. These protocols allow autonomous agents built by different organizations or using different frameworks to communicate, coordinate, share data, and work with tools and services across environments.
PESOSE supports organizations that manage open-source ecosystems, including governance, distributed development, and broad user and contributor communities across academia, industry, and government. This AI-focused opportunity emphasizes open standards, scalable architectures, and secure operation across different security regimes. It also encourages demonstrations supporting open science, cross-sector partnerships that accelerate appropriate adoption, and training for students and postdoctoral researchers in secure, reliable AI agent ecosystems.
