Cooperative Agreement FA70001920002

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $454,850 Project Grant to Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (doing business as Tees) to develop a BOUNDARY LAYER TURBULENCE SURFACE SENSOR ARRAY FOR HYPERSONIC FLIGHT AND GROUND TEST. The period of performance for this award under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) was from January 13, 2021 to January 12, 2022. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain...

This $200,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at the University of Missouri System's Missouri University of Science & Technology to investigate compressibility effects on turbulence production in supersonic flows. The goal is to improve understanding of the mixing process in supersonic combustors for hypersonic flight applications. The project will utilize two-point focused laser differential interferometry to...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $350,000 in funding to Harvard University to develop reliable and predictive computational models for simulating complex turbulent flows. The objective is to create generalized Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) turbulence models that can accurately predict turbulent flows, which are essential for advancing key technologies in sectors such as aerospace, automotive, and power...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded a $4,381,885 Cooperative Agreement to Missouri State University on June 6, 2024 under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The objective of this 26-month award is to design, manufacture, and verify the performance of a sub-component with features representative of the more complex geometries contained in typical hypersonic vehicle components. This research aims to enable the manufacture of affordable high-temperature...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $311,615 Project Grant to the University of Colorado under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to support research titled "PREDICTION OF BASIC OPERATION OF ELECTRO-SPRAY THRUSTERS USING HIGH FIDELITY MODELING." The research aims to develop high-fidelity modeling capabilities to predict the basic operation of electrospray thrusters, maintaining Air Force technological superiority...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to Sungkyunkwan University Research & Business Foundation to support basic research for proposal 21IOA104 "Heat Dissipation Artificial Meta-Structures (AMS) for Space Electronic Devices in Extreme Environment" from December 10, 2021 to December 9, 2023. The research aims to develop heat dissipation technologies using artificial meta-structures to enable space electronic devices...

This $119,449 Project Grant was awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to the Gran Sasso Science Institute in Italy. The grant will fund research on hypersonic turbulent boundary layers over rough surfaces from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2028. This research aims to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force by preventing technological surprise and creating...

This $1,200,000 federal Project Grant award under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) was made to The Johns Hopkins University on December 2, 2024 to support the "CENTER OF EXCELLENCE IN ASSIMILATION OF FLOW FEATURES IN COMPRESSIBLE REACTING FLOWS". The program aims to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force through fundamental and applied scientific research across diverse disciplines critical to national defense...

This $1,000,000 Project Grant award from the Office of the Secretary of Defense under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630) supports a Hypersonic Mach 10 Standing Oblique Detonation Flight Experiment for DoD hypersonic propulsion research. The grant, awarded to the University of Central Florida Board of Trustees Office of Research, will fund a multi-year research effort to develop and test an experimental hypersonic vehicle capable of...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $17,877,600.00 and issued by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), is part of the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The award supports accelerated material development for high Mach capabilities, with a performance period from September 16, 2024 to March 16, 2029. The primary awardee is the University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI), a public land-grant research university that specializes in advanced aerospace,...