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 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 Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $293,844.00, was issued by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The funding supports scientific research to be conducted by Energy And Photonics Consulting, Inc. concerning novel laser applications. The research will be performed in accordance with the proposal and subsequent revisions, as well as the stated research considerations, over a 5-year period...
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...
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...
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 $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 Cooperative Agreement award, worth $332,064, was granted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Weather and Air Quality Research federal grant program (CFDA 11.459). The award will fund research and development to improve the representation of aerosols in the Thompson-Eidhammer (TE) microphysics scheme used in NOAA's Next Generation 3-km Storm-Scale Rapid Refresh Forecast System (RRFS). The key products to be delivered include: Incorporating a more realistic...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded Purdue University a $100,000 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to conduct experimental measurements of boundary-layer transition on a blunt ogive at the Holloman Test Track. The grant period runs from February 1, 2022 through January 31, 2024 and will fund Purdue University researchers to perform wind tunnel testing and data collection at the Holloman Test Track located in...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award, issued by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), provides $4,499,847.00 in funding to the CAL Poly Corporation (doing business as CAL Poly Partners) to support advanced manufacturing research for hypersonic systems. The award period runs from October 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027. The CAL Poly Corporation, a non-profit auxiliary organization serving California Polytechnic State...