NRAO Call for Proposals: Semester 2026A
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) invites scientists to participate in the Semester 2026A Call for Proposals for the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT), and the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), High Sensitivity Array (HSA), and Global mm VLBI Array (GMVA).
The submission deadline for Semester 2026A proposals is Wednesday, 30 July 2025, at 17:00 EDT (21:00 UTC).
For the VLA, the A and D-configurations will be available. It is anticipated there will be around 3,600 hours on the VLA, 2,100 hours on the GBT, and 650 hours on the VLBA available for science observing. Opportunities for Joint proposals will be available for ALMA, JWST, HST, Swift, Chandra, XMM-Newton, NICER, and IXPE. Joint Proposals with ALMA or JWST need to be submitted to the facility requesting the larger amount of observing time.
View the Complete Semester 2026A Call for Proposals.
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Read the new report (arXiv: 2501.06333) assembled by the Transition Advisory Group (TAG).
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