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Ocean Exploration

Program Information

Popular name

N/A

Program Number

11.011

Program objective

To explore the Earth’s largely unknown oceans in all their dimensions for the purpose of discovery and the advancement of knowledge, using state of the art technologies in evolutionary and revolutionary ways within Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR).

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

NOAA Grants and Cooperative Agreements Policy Manual. Allowable cost will be determined in accordance with 2 CFR 225 for State and local governments and Indian Tribes; 2 CFR 230 for nonprofit and for-profit organizations; 2 CFR 220 for institutions of higher education; and 48 CFR Part 31 for commercial organizations. Financial assistance management will be in accordance with 15 CFR Part 14 for institutions of higher education, hospitals, and other non-profit and commercial organizations, and with 15 CFR Part 24 for State and local governments.

Program details

Categories & sub-categories

Science and Technology

Program types

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Alcoholic
  • American Indian
  • Anyone/general public
  • Artist/Humanist
  • Asian
  • Black
  • Builder/Contractor/Developer
  • Child (6-15)
  • Consumer
  • Disabled (e.g. Deaf, Blind, Physically Disabled)
  • Drug Addict
  • Education (0-8)
  • Education (13+)
  • Education (9-12)
  • Education Professional
  • Engineer/Architect
  • Farmer/Rancher/Agriculture Producer
  • Federal
  • Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments
  • Graduate Student
  • Health Professional
  • Homeowner
  • Individual/Family
  • Industrialist/ Business person
  • Infant (0-5)
  • Interstate
  • Intrastate
  • Juvenile Delinquent
  • Land/Property Owner
  • Local
  • Low Income
  • Major Metropolis (over 250,000)
  • Mentally Disabled
  • Migrant
  • Minority group
  • Moderate Income
  • Native American Organizations
  • Other Non-White
  • Other Urban
  • Other private institution/organization
  • Other public institution/organization
  • Pension Recipient
  • Physically Afflicted (e.g. TB, Arthritis, Heart Disease)
  • Preschool
  • Private nonprofit institution/organization
  • Profit organization
  • Public nonprofit institution/organization
  • Quasi-public nonprofit organization
  • Refugee/Alien
  • Rural
  • School
  • Scientist/Researchers
  • Senior Citizen (60+)
  • Small Business Person
  • Small business
  • Spanish Origin
  • Specialized group (e.g. health professionals, students, veterans)
  • Sponsored organization
  • State
  • Student/Trainee
  • Suburban
  • U.S. Citizen
  • U.S. Territories
  • Unemployed
  • Veteran/Service person/Reservist (including dependents
  • Welfare Recipient
  • Women
  • Youth (16-21)

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