Cooperative Agreement 80AFRC18M0003

This National Science Foundation (NSF) EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) award under CFDA 47.041 - Engineering provides $300,000 in funding to The University of Iowa to research methods for integrating unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) with manned aircraft during airport landing procedures. The key focus areas include: 1) developing advanced motion planning algorithms to coordinate the navigation and control of multiple manned and unmanned aircraft, 2) enhancing pilot comfort...

Skyward LTD received a $174,998 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to develop an edge-computing device and machine learning algorithms to process aerial imagery of wildfires in real time. The SBIR program aims to support technological innovation through the investment of federal research funds. Under this award, Skyward will benchmark hardware, software, and machine learning...

The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded a $100,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The award is titled "Multi-Disciplinary Modeling Tool for All-Electric and Hybrid-Electric Aircraft" and will run from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027. The Cooperative Agreement will support Tees in developing advanced engineering solutions and innovative technologies for all-electric...

This $524,928 Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program supports L'Garde, Inc.'s SOLSTICE test program. The goal is to advance the technology and manufacturing readiness of L'Garde's vectored solar sailcraft from TRL 4 to TRL 6, in order to provide a commercially viable solution for collecting critical solar wind data to enable advanced solar storm warning for NOAA. Over the 6-month period of performance,...

The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (CFDA 81.135) has awarded a $550,000 Cooperative Agreement to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) to expand the Wind Energy with Integrated Servo-Control (WEIS) toolset. The WEIS model, developed under a previous phase, is a revolutionary open-source tool that enables controls co-design optimization of conventional and innovative, cost-effective floating offshore wind turbines. The purpose of this award is to...

This Project Grant award of $453,885 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) is funding a three-year Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at the University of Idaho focused on autonomous unmanned vehicles (AUVs). The REU program will provide 10 undergraduate students per year with a 10-week hands-on experience to acquire foundational knowledge in areas like automatic control, sensors, artificial intelligence, and robotic swarm technologies....

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded Black Swift Technologies LLC a $395,601 project grant under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research Program to enable beyond line-of-sight unmanned aircraft system operations through a diverse-source global positioning system. The two-year project beginning February 2021 will develop technology to supplement GPS signals and allow unmanned aircraft to operate safely outside of a pilot's visual line of sight. The NOAA SBIR program...

This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) supports a collaborative research project between Florida International University (FIU), Auburn University, the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, and the International Institute of Information Technology Naya Raipur. The project aims to develop deep learning-based localization and sensing capabilities for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)...

This EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under CFDA Program 47.041 (Engineering), will provide $300,000 to the University of Illinois to conduct research on enabling quadrotor robots to safely interact with and assist humans through customized, user-taught functionalities. The research effort aims to develop a framework that allows anyone to safely...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award was provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the Aeronautics Research Program (CFDA 43.002). The award, totaling $1,999,995.57, supports research and development of safe, scalable, and seamless surface navigation technologies for uncrewed air systems (UAS) through the "SURFNAV4UAS" project led by Ohio University. Key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: Developing ground-based...