Competitive Academic Agreement Program (CAAP)
The Competitive Academic Agreement Program (CAAP) targets university graduate and PhD research students to provide exposure to common to pipeline safety challenges and illustrate how their engineering or technical discipline is highly desired and needed in the current and future pipeline safety workforce. Through CAAP, PHMSA awards up to $2 million annually in Cooperative Agreements that are competitively selected to universities. The number of awards is dependent upon the quality of submissions and budget limitations and selected academic institutions provide a 20 percent cost share per project.
The CAAP aims to spur innovation through enabling an academic research focus on high risk and high pay-off solutions for wide ranging pipeline safety challenges. The CAAP is different in focus, execution, and reporting than PHMSA's core program on Pipeline Safety Research. It is intended to deliver desired solutions that can be a "handed-off" to further investigations in CAAP or in PHMSA's core research program that employs partnerships with a variety of public/private organizations. Additionally, technology investments through CAAP could be used to validate proof of concept of a thesis or theory potentially all the way to commercial penetration into the market.
Summary De-Brief Presentation: Submitting Superior CAAP Applications
Click here to view the National policies for CAAP recipient compliance.
Contact Nusnin Akter (nusnin.akter2@dot.gov ) with inquiries about our Academic Partnerships.
| Annual Announcement | # Awards | PHMSA | Resource Sharing | # High School Students |
# U-Grad Students |
# Grad Students |
# PhD Students |
# PostDoc Students |
Total # Students |
# Interns (a) | # Career Employed (b) |
# Postdoc Researchers (c) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAAP-1-13 | 8 | $814K | $353K | 1 | 23 | 19 | 16 | 59 | 3 | 4 | ||
| CAAP-2-14 | 7 | $719K | $391K | 4 | 14 | 10 | 28 | 1 | 3 | |||
| CAAP-3-15 | 11 | $2,976K | $888K | 16 | 21 | 25 | 62 | 8 | 5 | |||
| CAAP-4-16 | 3 | $909K | $368K | 7 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 30 | 3 | |||
| CAAP-5-18 | 13 | $3,855K | $1,028K | 3 | 34 | 17 | 38 | 8 | 100 | 3 | 7 | |
| CAAP-6-19 | 8 | $1,956K | $608K | 11 | 17 | 15 | 7 | 50 | 1 | 12 | 3 | |
| CAAP-7-20 | 8 | $1,999K | $504K | 11 | 6 | 31 | 8 | 56 | 1 | 13 | 1 | |
| CAAP-8-21 | 3 | $1,859K | $465K | 3 | 11 | 1 | 15 | 2 | 1 | |||
| CAAP-9-22 | 6 | $4,793K | $1,208K | 6 | 4 | 26 | 3 | 39 | 1 | 3 | ||
| CAAP-10-23 | 6 | $4,327K | $1,161K | 12 | 9 | 13 | 2 | 36 | ||||
| CAAP-11-24 | 3 | $2,201K | $553K | 1 | 7 | 4 | 12 | |||||
| Grand Totals: | 76 | $26,413K | $7,533K | 11 | 126 | 117 | 200 | 33 | 487 | 23 | 47 | 5 |
(a) Denotes the number of internships offered by engineering firms, research organizations, government agencies or pipeline operators to students involved with CAAP research projects.
(b) Denotes the number of full time career employment/jobs offered by engineering firms, research organizations, government agencies or pipeline operators to students involved with CAAP research projects.
(c) Denotes the number of former CAAP students who are now professionally conducting research at a college or university.