Cooperative Agreement 2607594
- The National Science Foundation awarded Carnegie Mellon University $1.2 million on June 1, 2026, through the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop an artificial intelligence platform that systematizes cross-domain discovery for research and development teams. The project, which runs through May 31, 2029, will create a human-AI collaborative engine that mines evidence-backed analogies across scientific and engineering domains to generate novel ideas and...
- The National Science Foundation awarded Georgia TECH Research Corp a $5 million cooperative agreement on August 1, 2026, to establish and operate the Programmable Cloud Laboratories—Artificial Intelligence for Manufacturing and Materials Pilot Facility Node (PCL-AIMMPF), one node in a national network of autonomous, web-accessible laboratories that enable U.S. researchers to deploy AI-driven workflows for discovering and scaling new materials and manufacturing technologies. The PCL-AIMMPF...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded Carnegie Mellon University a $5 million Cooperative Agreement on September 15, 2026, to develop and operate TangleLab, a hybrid quantum-classical computing testbed providing national cyberinfrastructure capabilities to the research and education community through the NSF Advanced Computing Systems & Services (ACSS) program. TangleLab combines GPU-accelerated compute nodes with a superconducting circuit quantum...
- This $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will enable Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to develop advanced spatiotemporal foundation models and generative AI capabilities for large-scale multimodal threat detection. The project aims to create new data representations and neural network architectures to scale up existing spatial detection algorithms, enabling the rapid deployment of analytical...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research awarded Cornell University a $4 million cooperative agreement on October 1, 2025, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to advance artificial intelligence-driven materials discovery through the AI Materials Institute (AI-MI). The award funds development of the AI Materials Science Ecosystem (AIMS-EC), an open, cloud-based platform coupling a science-ready large-language model with multimodal data...
- The National Science Foundation awarded the Research Foundation of the City University of New York $4,667,934 under a Cooperative Agreement on August 1, 2026, to establish and operate AI-BIOME, a cloud-programmable national laboratory for AI agent-driven discovery, design, and production of advanced biomaterials through autonomous experimentation, robotics, and artificial intelligence. AI-BIOME will integrate AI agents, robotic cloud laboratories, and advanced characterization within a shared...
- The National Science Foundation awarded Scripps Research Institute a $4.873 million Cooperative Agreement on August 1, 2026, to establish and operate an AI-guided programmable cloud laboratory node for chemistry within a national network of such facilities. The award is made under NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084). The node integrates three components into a single platform: advanced robotic and automation capabilities, an AI model broadly trained on chemical reactivity,...
- The National Science Foundation awarded University of California, Santa Barbara a $5 million Cooperative Agreement on August 1, 2026 to establish the Computation-Optimized Automated Soft Materials Technology Programmable Cloud Laboratory (COAST PCL) Node under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program. COAST PCL will deliver an open-access autonomous materials research infrastructure combining robotics, advanced scientific instrumentation, and shared data networks to accelerate...
- The National Science Foundation awarded The Johns Hopkins University a $5 million cooperative agreement on August 1, 2026, under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to develop the AI for Materials Design Network (AIMD-Net), a national test bed of programmable cloud laboratories combining automated robotic experimentation with distributed artificial intelligence. AIMD-Net addresses the challenge of scaling autonomy from individual instruments and laboratories to achieve...
- The National Science Foundation awarded Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) a $5 million cooperative agreement on August 1, 2026, to establish the Virginia Tech NSF Programmable Cloud Laboratory (PCL) node, an AI-enabled, remotely accessible platform for semiconductor nanofabrication research and education. The award funds development of a secure, cloud-based self-driving nanofabrication system that integrates nanofabrication instruments, characterization tools,...
The National Science Foundation awarded Carnegie Mellon University a $5 million Cooperative Agreement on August 1, 2026, under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to establish the AI Science Foundry as a node in NSF's Programmable Cloud Lab (PCL) Testbed. The AI Science Foundry will integrate over 80 robotically controlled scientific instruments with AI agents, models, open data, and high-performance computing resources in a unified cybersecure platform for autonomous experimentation in biology, chemistry, and metal alloys. The facility will provide remote and on-site user access to enable researchers, students, educators, and industry users to develop and run AI-guided autonomous experiments with unprecedented scale, speed, and reproducibility, replacing manual trial-and-error processes with rapid design-test-learn cycles. Carnegie Mellon's facility is housed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in a 15,000-square-foot Biological and Chemical Innovation PCL space. The award funds work through July 31, 2030. The Cooperative Agreement assistance type indicates a partnership relationship where NSF and Carnegie Mellon share management responsibility and decision-making authority over the project.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $5.0m | 7/21/26 |