Cooperative Agreement DEEE0007880

This Cooperative Agreement award of $104,107.55 from the U.S. Geological Survey's Cooperative Research Units (CFDA 15.812) program will support Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) in demonstrating and validating an approach to assess the impacts of lead exposure and disturbance on bald and golden eagles at military installations. The key products and services to be delivered under this 10-month project include: 1) Developing tools and methods to evaluate...

Seaflight Technologies Inc. will develop novel aerodynamic circulation control technologies for electric aircraft wings through this $275,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant awarded under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). The one-year project will advance research and development of high-lift wing designs using electric jet circulation control to increase maximum lift coefficients and enable longer range for small electric aircraft. Computational...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Directorate awarded a $147,827 EAGER/Collaborative Research grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) to investigate the extraordinary stability and rapid recovery capabilities of flying insects, specifically the hawkmoth. This Early-Concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) project will use mathematical analyses and high-fidelity computer simulations to fully explore and explain how certain insects can tolerate large...

This $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Northeastern University will develop the first AlScN microelectromechanical radiofrequency (RF) bandpass filter capable of activating widely tunable and sharp notches within its passband to effectively suppress electromagnetic interference (EMI). The "SHIELD" project will leverage expertise in micro/nanofabrication, spintronics, and microwave acoustics to create the novel...

This $384,930 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports the acquisition of a drop tower impact test capability at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. The drop tower will allow researchers to study rate-dependent fracture behavior across a variety of materials, from metals and polymers to composites, under controlled high-speed impact conditions. It will complement existing test techniques and enable undergraduate research,...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) provides $276,000 to Astrabeam LLC and Penn State University to develop a D-band, silicon-based phased array radar front-end module for smart sensing applications. Specifically, the awardees will design, model, simulate, and demonstrate a prototype radar module operating beyond 100 GHz with wide bandwidth. The scalable, area-efficient front-end architecture and phased array...

This $299,741 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) will fund a two-year research project to advance the understanding of resilient high entropy alloys (HEAs) and their ability to mitigate high-velocity impact loads. The project will be conducted in collaboration with researchers at Johns Hopkins University, leveraging their specialized experimental facilities. Key activities include: 1) high-velocity impact experiments at...

This $255,843 National Science Foundation project grant under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program will fund research and development of an integrated high lift propulsor to enable affordable and energy-efficient advanced air mobility aircraft designs. Wayfarer Aircraft Research and Development Inc. will conduct wind tunnel experiments and computational fluid dynamics simulations from August 2022 to July 2023 to characterize aerodynamic interactions between a propeller and wing...

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 SBIR Phase II Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $955,736 to Helios Pompano Inc., a minority-owned and Hispanic American-owned small business, to develop an innovative system for the rapid detection and verification of high-risk lightning strikes that can initiate wildfires. The project aims to create a ground-based system using extremely low frequency (ELF) lightning...