Cooperative Agreement FA70001720007

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 $600,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) under the CFDA Program 81.135 Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy has a period of performance from January 29, 2024 to July 28, 2025. The purpose of this award is to develop an aviation contrail prediction and observation system that utilizes satellite data and an ensemble of physics and machine learning models. This system is intended to be used by airlines to mitigate the climate...

This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration under the Air Transportation Centers of Excellence program (CFDA 20.109) provides $425,000.00 in funding to Georgia Tech Research Corporation to examine ways to define events related to rotorcraft operations, implement a data collection and analysis system, and identify shortcomings with corresponding means of improvement. The award period runs from August 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025. The...

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...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of the Air Force under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) provides $200,000 in funding to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to develop an "Airbreathing Hypersonic Engine Modeling Library for Morphing Engine Designs". The objective is to maintain technological superiority in areas relevant to Air Force needs and prevent technological surprise. The work will leverage...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $7,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to the University of Michigan under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to develop advanced spacecraft propulsion modeling and thermal control technologies. The project aims to advance the state-of-the-art in areas such as spacecraft propulsion modeling, thermal control, the use of molecular propellants, and power conversion for long-pulse Hall thrusters. The University of Michigan is...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to Georgia TECH Research Corp, a non-profit research organization and state institution of higher education, under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant, with a performance period from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026, will fund research on "Information Geometric Regularization for Simulation and Optimization of Supersonic Flow." The project...

This Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) provides $125,000.00 in funding to the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University) in Australia. The award supports research on data-driven reduced order modeling and preliminary experimentation to investigate the combined effects of transonic buffet and freeplay-induced limit cycle oscillations. This research aims to...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $250,000 cooperative agreement to the San Diego State University Research Foundation from May 2022 through December 2023. The award will support development of an Acoustic Modeling System for Physics-Guided Machine Learning under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain Air Force technological superiority through foundational research in...

The Cooperative Agreement award for $149,762.72 was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the Aeronautics Research (CFDA 43.002) Federal Grant Program. The award to Volcano Platforms Inc., a for-profit technology company, is for a project titled "WALL-MODELLED LARGE EDDY SIMULATIONS OF CRM-HL CONFIGURATION IN NTF". The project aims to advance computational fluid dynamics modeling of a transport aircraft configuration in a wind tunnel environment,...