Cooperative Agreement 17G004

This $255,843 National Science Foundation project grant under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program will fund research and development of an integrated high lift propulsor to enable affordable and energy-efficient advanced air mobility aircraft designs. Wayfarer Aircraft Research and Development Inc. will conduct wind tunnel experiments and computational fluid dynamics simulations from August 2022 to July 2023 to characterize aerodynamic interactions between a propeller and wing...

This $636,200 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management, through the Joint Fire Science Program (CFDA 15.232), will support research to address knowledge gaps about the effective duration and impacts of fuel reduction treatments (mechanical thinning, prescribed fire) in mixed-conifer forests across the interior Pacific Northwest. The project will leverage existing data from the Fire and Fire Surrogates study that was burned in subsequent...

The U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) awarded a $6,000,000 Project Grant to Apijet, LLC under the Fueling Aviation's Sustainable Transition via Sustainable Aviation Fuels (FAST-SAF) and Low-Emissions Aviation Technologies (FAST-Tech) Grant Program (CFDA 20.115). The grant supports the development of a scalable, ground-based software system to optimize flight routes in real-time, with the goal of maximizing the reduction of CO2 emissions from aviation...

The U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) awarded a $5,500,000 Project Grant to Heart Aerospace Incorporated under the Fueling Aviation's Sustainable Transition via Sustainable Aviation Fuels (FAST-SAF) and Low-Emissions Aviation Technologies (FAST-Tech) Grant Program (CFDA 20.115). The project, titled "TOTAL HYBRID ELECTRIC MANAGEMENT AND INTEGRATION SYSTEM THEMIS," aims to develop and demonstrate a hybrid electric management and integration system to...

The Department of Agriculture Forest Service awarded a $1.8 million cooperative agreement to Reax Engineering, Inc. from January 2023 through October 2027 under the State & Private Forestry Cooperative Fire Assistance program (CFDA 10.698). The award will support Reax Engineering's development of a FIRES COMPARISON DASHBOARD to assist the Forest Service with the State & Private Forestry Cooperative Fire Assistance program's goals related to rural fire prevention, control, suppression and...

Tall Timbers Research, Inc. was awarded a $1,015,317 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Resources Conservation Service to develop the Southeastern FireMAP through September 2027. Under the Environmental Quality Incentives Program, which promotes agricultural production, forest management, and environmental quality as compatible national goals, Tall Timbers Research will optimize environmental benefits on eligible lands. The organization will create a decision...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), under its Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards program (CFDA 11.609), awarded a $109,993.36 cooperative agreement to Airt Inc. (doing business as Airborne International Response Team) for the period of April 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022. The purpose of this cooperative agreement is to validate standard test methods for small unmanned aircraft system pilots employed by public safety organizations. NIST's Measurement and...

The U.S. Geological Survey awarded a $114,998 Cooperative Agreement to Northern Arizona University under the USGS Research and Data Collection Program (CFDA 15.808) to test the utility of terrestrial LiDAR scanning (TLS) in estimating key wildfire fuels variables. The 2-year project will develop methods to estimate fuel load, vegetation cover, and vertical plant density from TLS data combined with other remote sensing sources. The researchers will establish field plots across different...

This U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service cooperative agreement (CFDA 15.674 National Fire Plan-Wildland Urban Interface Community Fire Assistance) provides $676,991 in funding to explore two applications of high-density LiDAR technology: Applying LiDAR vegetation data as inputs to the QUICFIRE fire behavior model to evaluate fuel treatment prescriptions and monitor model performance at management scales across priority landscapes in the U.S., including Alaska. Developing a LiDAR feature detection...

This $600,000 Project Grant award from the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.106) will fund the field testing and measuring of innovative technologies to measurably reduce and mitigate the impacts of aqueous film forming foam and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances on surface and groundwater quality at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and within a 5-mile radius. The award, with a performance period from September 2024 to September 2028, will provide...