Cooperative Agreement DEAR0001772

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) under CFDA 81.135, supports the development of an open-access, open-source, browser-based cloud computing framework to enable industry-wide transformation in fusion materials engineering. The $1,495,000 award to the University of Illinois will fund a multi-disciplinary research and development project, titled "Centralized and On-Demand Radiation Transport and Techno-Economics (CORTEX) for...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), CFDA 81.135, provides $1,150,000 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University to create a specialized platform for evaluating novel materials and establishing design limits for existing alloys, addressing complex failure mechanisms specific to industrial and aeroengine H2-fueled gas turbines. The key innovations of this 3-year project, starting on Sep 17, 2025, include: 1) evaluating...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) under CFDA 81.135, provides $634,168 in funding to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to conduct research and development on innovative energy technologies. The project's focus is to obtain a copy of the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) and then apply through the ARPA-E Exchange portal. The award incorporates changes to the FOA,...

This $500,000 Block Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) program, under CFDA 81.135, was made to EVA Technology Corp. on September 19, 2023. The funding supports the company's project titled "Anoprotonic Devices for >240 Performance Analog AI Hardware", which aims to develop novel analog artificial intelligence hardware components. This award aligns with ARPA-E's mission to fund transformative research and development...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E, CFDA 81.135) awarded a $1.05 million Cooperative Agreement to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) on July 9, 2025, to be completed by July 8, 2027. This award will fund innovative research and development projects at CSM to advance transformative energy technologies in support of ARPA-E's mission to enhance U.S. economic and energy security, reduce emissions, and improve energy efficiency across...

The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $1,657,404 Cooperative Agreement to 39 Alpha Research, a non-profit organization based in Tempe, Arizona. The 24-month project, titled "ENABLING THE DISCOVERY OF H2 PRODUCING SYSTEMS WITH LARGE-SCALE CHEMICAL CARTOGRAPHY," is part of ARPA-E's Exploratory Topic G: Production of Geologic Hydrogen through Stimulated Mineralogical Processes (STIMULATION) program. The project aims to develop...

This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) under CFDA 81.135 provides $1,499,586.00 in funding to New England Research, Inc. to demonstrate the feasibility of the Accelerated Mechanical Promotion (AMP) concept and approach for hydrogen production. The project aims to develop necessary tools, calibrate a workflow for implementation, and apply the technologies to assess field scenarios and commercialize products needed to...

This Cooperative Agreement award was made by the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), a federal program under the Department of Energy, to the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois for the project "EINSTEIN: Enhanced Integrated Nuclear Systems for Transmutation and Efficient Isolation of Nuclides". The $1,025,404 award, granted on Sep 3, 2025, supports research and development of advanced nuclear energy technologies, with a focus on transmutation and isolation...

This $870,626 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) CFDA Program 81.135 supports the "PROPEL-1K" project at The Johns Hopkins University to develop "HIGH ENERGY DENSITY FUEL CELLS WITH CYCLIC HYDROGEN CARRIERS". The project aims to advance railroad, oceanic, and aviation electrification through 1 kWh energy storage systems. Key tasks include system integration for metal-ceramic composite hydrogen...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), CFDA 81.135, provides $908,917.00 to the University of Tennessee to reduce beam trip occurrences in accelerator driven systems for nuclear energy waste transmutation applications by an order of magnitude compared to the current state-of-the-art. A secondary objective is to integrate physics data with machine learning methods to identify accelerator equipment issues and improve maintenance practices....