Building Engineered Complex System:  On September 23, 2009 the National Science Foundation announced the availability of funding for the Building Engineered Complex System Program (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance number 47.041). The purpose of this program is to seek and develop a theoretical basis of complex systems, with the aim of developing formal methods for the design of engineered complex systems.  A complex system is characterized by its display of patterns of structure or behavior at one level of organization of the system that are diagnostic of interactions among parts of the system at other levels; the emergent behaviors or structures are not evident from considering only the system's separate components.  This solicitation has been motivated by the observation that many natural, social and engineered systems have been recognized to be complex systems, in which the traditional reductionist approach to science and engineering fails to predict and explain the patterns and behaviors that emerge from the functioning of these systems. The application deadline is December 14, 2009. Eligible applicants include institutions of higher education. To request an application package, visit www.grants.gov. For further information, contact Eduardo A. Misawa, ENG/CMMI, (703) 292-5353.