This is a modification to the synopsis entitled FY2009 IPP SEED FUND CALLANNOUNCEMENT which was posted on February 19, 2009. The Innovative Partnerships Program (IPP) provides technology for NASAs MissionDirectorates, Programs and Projects through investments and technology partnerships withindustry, academia, government agencies and national laboratories. As one of NASA'sMission Support Offices, IPP supports all four Mission Directorates and has programoffices at each of the ten NASA Centers. The IPP Partnership Seed Fund over the last fewyears has demonstrated success by enhancing NASA's ability to meet mission technologygoals by providing seed funding to address barriers and initiate cost-shared,joint-development partnerships. The IPP Seed Fund is used to provide "seed" funding toenable larger partnerships and development efforts to occur and will encourage, to themaximum extent possible, the leveraging of funding, resources and expertise from non-NASApartners, NASA Programs and Projects and NASA Centers. This Call to NASA Centers is soliciting proposals for cost-shared partnerships withindustry, academia, research institutions, national laboratories and other governmentagencies for joint development of technology that is of Mission interest to NASA. Awardsmade under this Call are contingent upon NASA budget appropriations and fundingavailability. This solicitation is being distributed through the NASA Center IPP Offices(IPPO). In order to solicit external interest for partnerships through this Call, thisAnnouncement is posted to Fedbizops.gov. For more information, please visit the Seed Fundwebsite: http://ipp.nasa.gov/ti_seed_fund.htm . Responses to this Announcement mustinvolve partnerships with NASA and be received from NASA personnel participating as aPartnership Manager (PM) in the Center IPP Office; with proposals including both aninternal NASA Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) and an External Co-PI. Proposalssubmitted directly from parties external to NASA will not be accepted. Proposed projects, due for submission by April 30, 2009, must include one or morenon-NASA partners in addition to non-IPP NASA partners who are committed to cost-share ata desired level at least equal to or greater than the IPP funding provided to theproject. For prior Seed Fund projects in the aggregate, additional internal NASAresources have typically matched IPP funds with external resources matching total NASAresources for a nearly 4:1 total leveraging for the project, relative to the IPP funding.Higher leveraging is desired and may enable more awards. Acceptable cost-sharing from thepartner excludes any sunk costs and includes only actual dollars applied directly to theproject, in-kind considerations such as workforce labor and the use of unique anddedicated facilities and testbeds. Monetary valuation of partner in-kind facility and/ortestbed access should be based solely on actual costs incurred by the partner in theperformance of the proposed project, and should not reflect the partner'salready-incurred cost for developing the technology including the original capitalexpenditure for construction of the subject facilities and/or testbeds. For further information and questions regarding this announcement, including the fullPartnership Seed Fund Call for Proposals 2009, visit the IPP Seed Fund website(http://ipp.nasa.gov/ti_seed_fund.htm ) or kindly contact the IPP Points of Contactat any of the ten NASA Centers listed below. The IPP Leads, at their respective NASACenters, have primary responsibility for creating the partnership development,intellectual property and business aspects of the proposal. Contact information for the IPP Points of Contact is as follows: * Ames Research Center (ARC) Lisa Lockyer Phone: 650-604-3009 Email:Lisa.L.Lockyer@nasa.gov * Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC) Greg Poteat Phone: 661-276-3872 Email:Gregory.A.Poteat@nasa.gov * Glenn Research Center (GRC) Kathy Needham Phone: 216-433-2802 Email:Kathleen.K.Needham@nasa.gov * Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Nona Cheeks Phone: 301-286-5810 Email:techtransfer@gsfc.nasa.gov * Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Andrew Gray Phone: 818-354-4906 Email:gray@jpl.nasa.gov * Johnson Space Center (JSC) Michelle Lewis Phone: 281-483-8051 Email:michelle.p.lewis@nasa.gov * Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Alexis Hongamen Phone: 321- 861-3107 Email:alexis.hongamen-1@nasa.gov * Langley Research Center (LaRC) Brian Beaton Phone: 757-864-2192 Email:brian.f.beaton@nasa.gov * Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Jim Dowdy Phone: 256-544-7604 Email:jim.dowdy@nasa.gov * Stennis Space Center (SSC) Ramona E. Travis Phone: 228-688-1962 Email:Ramona.E.Travis@nasa.gov For more information about NASA's Innovative Partnerships Program, please visithttp://ipp.nasa.gov . Interested parties are urged to visit the NASA Centers' websites to identify areas ofTechnology Focus at each Center: http://ipp.nasa.gov/field_centers.htm (IPP NationalNetwork). Notwithstanding the posting of this opportunity at FedBizOpps.gov, Grants.gov, or at bothsites, NASA reserves the right to determine the appropriate award instrument for eachproposal selected pursuant to this announcement.