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The eligibility sentence and the email rule are the whole finding: 'This call is open to meritorious proposals by US-based researchers and educators from US-based institutions including academic institutions ..., non-profits, federal agencies or federally funded R&D centers, state, local, or tribal agencies, startups and small businesses with federal grants.' and 'Note that the email address you provide must be your institutional email. 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Requests providing personal email addresses such as .gmail.com addresses will not be considered', and the applicant must be at a US-based institution. A university briefing deck adds that U.S. citizenship is not required unless a resource says so, reported. No card or hold is stated; the proposal also needs a three-page PDF and survives a peer review","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://nairrpilot.org/opportunities/allocations","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'Projects will be awarded for twelve (12) months duration'; 'This call is open to meritorious proposals by US-based researchers and educators from US-based institutions'; 'the email address you provide must be your institutional email. Requests providing personal email addresses such as .gmail.com addresses will not be considered'; 'Proposals for research activities without merit-reviewed support will be accepted, but will be subject to additional review', quoted; page 200"},{"url":"https://nairrpilot.org/opportunities/allocations","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'Proposals require completing a form and uploading a three-page PDF proposal'; 'All supported projects will have the name of the principal investigator (PI), their affiliation, the project title, and project abstract posted on the NAIRR Pilot website'; a 1-month and 6-month update plus a three-page final report are required"},{"url":"https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/national-ai-research-resource-nairr-pilot/who-can-apply/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"a contributing partner's restatement agrees: 'applicants must be US-based researchers and educators from US-based institutions including academic institutions, non-profits, federal agencies or federally funded R&D centers, state, local, or tribal agencies, or startups and small businesses with federal grants'"},{"url":"https://nairrpilot.org/opportunities/allocations","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'This call is open to meritorious proposals by US-based researchers and educators from US-based institutions'; 'Requests providing personal email addresses such as .gmail.com addresses will not be considered', quoted"},{"url":"https://www.depts.ttu.edu/hpcc/downloads/2025-09-29_Requesting-Resources-via-the-NAIRR-Pilot.pdf","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'Principal Investigator / Lead Instructor and all other users must perform work via an eligible organization physically based in the U.S.'; 'U.S. citizenship is not required, unless noted in resource-specific requirements', reported from a university briefing deck"},{"url":"https://nairrpilot.org/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"NSF established a NAIRR Operations Center on 1 September 2026 led by the San Diego Supercomputer Center, so the programme is transitioning rather than closing"}],"verdict":"fails-identity","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"Worth recording because NAIRR is the program a reader is most likely to be told to try, and the exclusion is unusually explicit: not only an institution, but an institutional email address, with the .gmail case named. The one softening clause is real and should not be overstated - 'Proposals for research activities without merit-reviewed support will be accepted' removes the federal-grant precondition inside the eligible institution class, but does not create an unaffiliated lane. 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