Project Grant DEAR0000567

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Marathon Fusion, Inc. received a $3.63M Cooperative Agreement award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E, CFDA 81.135) on March 6, 2026, for research and development of a partial ionization centrifuge technology. The project, titled "Partial Ionization Centrifuge Enabling Differential Pumping and Lithium Isotope Separation for Fusion Energy," will be conducted in San Francisco, California, with an anticipated completion...

The National Science Foundation awarded Avalanche Energy Designs Inc. a $274,890 Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant to characterize the fusion gain factor Q for their Orbitron micro-fusion reactor technology. This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project aims to use particle-in-cell code, experiments, and plasma loss mechanism analysis to optimize fusion gain factor modeling and enable mitigating solutions for future small-scale fusion reactor...

This $265,965 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) supports research and development by Nearstar Fusion Inc., a for-profit organization, on a new approach to fusion energy for grid-based electric power. The project aims to perform computational modeling, analytical calculations, and design work to de-risk and establish a point design for a "hypervelocity gradient field fusion" concept. This...

The Southwest Research Institute received a $250,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management to complete a conceptual design and optimization study of a commercial-scale Liquid Air Combined Cycle system integrated with a natural gas combustion turbine. The study will be carried out in collaboration with sub-awardee Pintail Power LLC. The award supports the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management's Fossil Energy Research...

FIRE COLLABORATIVE: FUSION NEUTRONS FOR INTEGRATED BLANKET TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science awarded a $4.37 million Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 81.049: Office of Science Financial Assistance Program) to the University of Wisconsin System, effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2026, to support the FIRE Collaborative initiative focused on fusion neutron source development and integrated blanket technology advancement. This collaborative research...

Tibbar Plasma Technologies Inc. was awarded a $995,712 cooperative agreement from the National Science Foundation under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support development of a plasma heat engine for efficient production of fusion energy. The two-year award running from December 2021 through November 2023 will allow Tibbar Plasma to advance its technology for an innovative fusion energy generator with the potential to provide clean, sustainable power. As part of its mission to promote...

This $300,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of a new sub-kelvin refrigerator using superfluid helium vortex cooling. Funded under the Engineering (47.041) program, Yale University will analyze, design, build a prototype, and benchmark a two-stage cooling system combining a superfluid vortex cooler and Joule-Thomson precooler. The system aims to achieve high-capacity cooling below 1K without using helium-3, addressing stockpile depletion issues. By...

Hyper TECH Research Inc. received a $413,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to support research and development of high critical current density and low ac loss niobium-tin superconductors for 16-20 Tesla fusion magnets through March 26, 2023. The award is being administered under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which aims to deliver scientific discoveries and tools to transform understanding of nature and...

Muons Inc. was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to develop Affordable, Efficient Injection Locked Magnetrons for Superconducting Cavities. The project aims to deliver new magnetron technology to support the Office of Science's mission of transforming our understanding of nature and advancing U.S. energy and economic security through scientific discoveries and tools. Specifically, Muons Inc. will work to design injection locked...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The Board of Trustees of The Leland Stanford Junior University received a $1.1 million Cooperative Agreement from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) under the CFDA 81.135 program, awarded on September 18, 2025, with completion targeted for September 17, 2028. The project, titled "Gaseous Optics for Next Generation Fusion Energy Lasers," develops gas-based optical components—including mirrors, lenses, and beam shapers—designed...