Cooperative Agreement D26AC50016
- The Department of the Interior Departmental Offices Interior Business Center awarded a $250,000 cooperative agreement to The Leland Stanford Junior University on September 30, 2025, under the Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910). The award funds development of AI-guided strategies for spatiotemporal programming of thermal patterns in shape memory polymer metamaterial sheets to enable on-demand, localized tuning of mechanical properties for regulating elastic and acoustic...
- The Department of the Interior Departmental Offices Interior Business Center awarded a Cooperative Agreement of $288,050 to Scripps Research Institute on September 1, 2026, to develop programmable condensate reactors for rapid toxin neutralization. The award supports the Research and Technology Development federal grant program (CFDA 12.910), which funds basic, applied, and advanced research with potential military or dual-use application at educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, and...
- The Department of the Interior Departmental Offices Interior Business Center awarded a $178,043 cooperative agreement to Montana State University on September 1, 2026, to develop computational tools for identifying biomimetic metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for threat-responsive water, waste, and air separation in theatre environments. The research aims to accelerate discovery of next-generation membrane materials by enabling rapid computational comparison of candidate MOFs against enzyme and...
- The Department of the Interior Departmental Offices Interior Business Center awarded the University of California, Merced a $250,000 cooperative agreement on September 1, 2026, to develop a framework for architecting emergent microfluidics by integrating modular flow modes into dynamic vortices using symmetry principles under the Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910). The project addresses fundamental limitations in traditional microfluidic systems that rely on fixed...
- The Department of the Interior Departmental Offices Interior Business Center awarded a $250,000 cooperative agreement to Brown University on September 1, 2026, to support CMOS-addressable DNA random access memory research under the DARPA Young Faculty Award program (Assistance Listing 12.910). The award funds basic, applied, or advanced research in science and technology with potential military or dual-use application. Work is performed in Providence, Rhode Island, with a period of performance...
- The Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded a cooperative agreement totaling $2.322 million to Sri International on July 10, 2026, to execute a proof-of-concept demonstration of building high-performance fully recyclable carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRPs) under the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy program (CFDA 81.135). Sri International will develop a scalable manufacturing process for a solvent-free homogenous depolymerizable resin formulation,...
- The Department of the Interior Departmental Offices Interior Business Center awarded a cooperative agreement to the University of Southern California for long-wave infrared free-space optical communications, obligating $663,841 on May 20, 2026. The award falls under the Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910), which supports basic, applied, and advanced research at educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, and commercial firms with potential military or dual-use...
- The Department of the Interior Departmental Offices Interior Business Center awarded a $250,000 Cooperative Agreement to University of California, Los Angeles on September 1, 2026, under the Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910) to support relativistic quantum fields research on a chip, including finite-time detection and vacuum entanglement harvesting in topological devices as part of DARPA's Young Faculty Award 2026 program. Work is performed in Los Angeles, California with...
- This Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Massachusetts for the project "A Stretchable Ion Barrier for Bioelectronic Encapsulation". The $100,000 award, effective October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2025, aims to develop a stretchable dielectric encapsulation that can prevent ion diffusion into bioelectronic devices over extended periods. The research will focus on engineering...
- The Department of the Interior Departmental Offices Interior Business Center awarded a $500,000 cooperative agreement to The Johns Hopkins University on September 30, 2025, under the Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910) to develop a revolutionary approach for detecting sophisticated surveillance equipment in cellular networks that masquerade as legitimate infrastructure. The award funds research to recognize inherent differences in configurations and behavior between...
The Department of the Interior Departmental Offices Interior Business Center awarded a Cooperative Agreement of $250,000 to Sri International on September 1, 2026, for development of a scalable, rubbery ultrabarrier membrane that combines impermeability with mechanical stretchability, targeting oxygen and moisture transmission rates that outperform metallized plastic laminates while exhibiting greater than fifty-fold higher operating pliability compared to standard nanocomposites. The award funds research addressing the loading limits of classical nanocomposites, specifically overcoming uncontrolled particle aggregation and matrix stiffening that currently prevent achievement of the theoretical 1550 percent two-dimensional filler loading predicted by the Cussler model for hermeticity in rubber. The intended application is pliable hermetic packaging for safe, durable shape-morphable electronics. The award is made under the Research and Technology Development federal grant program (CFDA 12.910), which supports basic, applied, and advanced research at educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, and commercial firms with potential military or dual-use application. Sri International, a nonprofit research and development organization headquartered in Menlo Park, California, will perform the work at that location. The period of performance runs through August 31, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $250.0k | 8/25/26 |