NASA adds FAIMM to ROSES-2025 for researchers working on Moon and Mars AI

NASA has added a new program element, C.12 Foundational Artificial Intelligence for the Moon and Mars (FAIMM), to ROSES-2025 through Amendment 37 to enable individual researchers to join teams designing science and exploration applications for large, general AI models for the Moon and Mars.

FAIMM is intended to bring together collaborators to apply Foundation Models (FMs) that harness large datasets to a range of AI and machine learning tasks for lunar and Martian science and exploration. Selected participants will work with each other, existing project team members, and AI researchers and engineers in a collaborative, interdisciplinary effort. The program seeks to expand the personnel, skills, datasets, and science and exploration disciplines contributing to large AI models, and no prior AI/ML experience is required.

ROSES-2025 Amendment 37 presents C.12 FAIMM as a new program element; neither Step-1 proposals nor NOIs are requested. Proposals are due by April 28, 2026, and the Amendment will be posted on or about January 13, 2025 on the NASA research opportunity homepage at https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2025. Questions concerning C.12 FAIMM may be directed to Rebekah Dawson-Rigas at HQ-FAIMM@mail.nasa.gov.

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Science, Faimm, Foundation Models, Moon, Mars, Rebekah Dawson-rigas