Cooperative Agreement FA86501629301

This federal Cooperative Agreement award for $2,503,190.00 was issued on July 24, 2025 by the U.S. Department of Defense's Civil Works agency. The award supports the "Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering" program (CFDA 12.630) to conduct coastal research and engineering aimed at testing ecosystem design approaches and evaluating the performance of natural and nature-based solutions. The primary awardee is Louisiana State University, which will leverage its...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the National Science Foundation under its Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050), supports Oregon State University (OSU) in delivering oceanographic technical services for the U.S. Academic Research Fleet. Over a 5-year period from March 2025 to February 2030, OSU will provide $685,670 in funding to maintain, calibrate, and make available shared-use research instrumentation for NSF-funded oceanographic research projects. This includes deploying...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $2,076,190.06 from the U.S. Department of Defense's Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630) supports research on nearshore hydrodynamics, morphological response, and nature-based solutions on the U.S. West Coast. The award was made to Oregon State University, a prominent public land-grant research university, to conduct this scientific research and development work. The project will run from June 26, 2025 to...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Cooperative Institute (Inter-Agency Funded Activities) program (CFDA 11.405), will provide $180,000.00 from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2025 to the University of Washington to explore scientific and technological methodologies to improve the performance of the Salish Sea and Columbia River Operational Forecast System (SSCOFS). The key efforts include...

The U.S. Department of Defense, through its Basic Scientific Research Program (CFDA 12.431), awarded a $115,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) on August 12, 2025. The purpose of the award is to conduct research and demonstration on highly adaptable aerostructures with nonintuitive topologies, focusing on areas such as aeroservoelastic design optimization. The research efforts will aim to expand fundamental scientific knowledge and technological...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award of $110,450.00 from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630), supports statistical evaluation of an adaptive management study duration at the University of Illinois. The award, with a performance period from September 24, 2025 to September 23, 2026, will leverage the university's extensive experience in federal research and development to...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Unallied Science Program (CFDA 11.472), aims to advance the state of telemetry tag technology for monitoring North Atlantic right whales (NARW). The $679,552 project, with a period of performance from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027, will focus on developing a new bioinspired adhesive mounting tag platform to enable longer-duration attachment of telemetry sensors on cetaceans. Key...

The Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Civil Works totals $284,466 to evaluate the influence of water level on wave attenuation of natural and nature-based features in low- to high-energy environments. Funded under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630), the award will support applied research at the Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey from April 2022 to April 2025. The...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory, under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), provides funding of $265,970.77 to Energy and Photonics Consulting, Inc. to conduct scientific research concerning novel laser applications. The research is to be performed in accordance with the proposal and revisions dated through August 2, 2024, as well as additional research considerations dated May 23, 2024. The...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) program, will investigate and document the use of a space systems reference architecture to assess how it meets U.S. mission objectives for voluntary consensus standards. The $199,708 award to the Space Infrastructure Foundation, Inc. will: 1) determine if and how a reference architecture for space is currently applied or...