Cooperative Agreement FA70002520006

This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to develop an advanced extended reality (XR) training system that combines Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Part 107 regulations and unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) operation, powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI) assistance. The $399,871 project, titled "Transforming Compliance Training for Drone Operators Through an Extended Reality and Generative Artificial...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $1,025,369 to Aalmv Inc. to develop a physics-based competitive machine learning framework for AI-driven robotics instruction. The broader impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is to provide mission-critical drone simulations with embedded robotics and AI to accelerate learning in high school physics...

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...

This $500,000 project grant, awarded on January 1, 2024 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), aims to address the urgent need for end-to-end safety in learning-enabled autonomous systems across various application scenarios, such as self-driving cars and urban air mobility. The project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SLES: GUARANTEED TUBES FOR SAFE LEARNING ACROSS AUTONOMY ARCHITECTURES,"...

The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded a $100,000 cooperative agreement to Carnegie Mellon University under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630). The award period is from July 20, 2021 through December 19, 2022. Under this cooperative agreement, Carnegie Mellon University will develop additional teamwork tasks and simulations to train symbiosis in human-agent teams. Researchers will...

The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded $500,000 under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) to Georgia Tech Research Corporation for a one-year Cooperative Agreement ending July 7, 2023. The award will support the development and deployment of a Bayesian machine learning framework to accelerate modeling of multiscale physics controlling material responses in extreme environments. Georgia Tech will lead the effort and...

This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research by the University of Maryland, College Park to enhance pilot training through the development of methods for optimizing sensory-motor interactions. The goal is to reduce training duration and improve safety by leveraging secondary sensory cues, such as touch and audition, and insights into pilot neurophysiology. The research involves creating a pilot training...

The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded a $499,185 cooperative agreement to the Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc. under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The award period is from January 10, 2022 to July 9, 2024 to support research related to multi-agent collaborative learning and inference at network edges. Specifically, the awardee will conduct research on multi-agent collaborative object recognition...

The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded a $362,150 cooperative agreement to the University of Missouri System from September 30, 2021 to July 31, 2023 under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The award will support research to establish foundations for the long-term study of applying artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to terrain detection and automated decision-making in mobile robot systems....

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $304,580 Project Grant to Arizona State University under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant funded the TRUSTED DISTRIBUTED HUMAN-MACHINE TEAMING FOR SAFE AND EFFECTIVE SPACE-BASED MISSIONS project from February 1, 2021 through January 31, 2023. The project focused on developing technologies to maintain Air Force technological superiority and prevent technological surprise...