Cooperative Agreement SBAHQ11J0009

The Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Eastern Region awarded a $135,000 Project Grant to Harrisburg University of Science & Technology on January 18, 2022 through the Aircraft Pilots Workforce Development Grant Program (CFDA 20.111). The grant is intended to support the creation and delivery of curriculum designed to provide high school students with aircraft pilot education in accordance with the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018, with activities to be completed...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded a $9,398,638 Project Grant titled "SCALING AND SUSTAINING PROFESSIONAL LEARNING THAT SUPPORTS POSITIVE ACCELERATION FOR EARLY-CAREER TEACHERS" to the American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences (AIR). The project period runs from January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2029. The grant aims to refine, scale, test, and sustain a teacher professional learning program for early-career...

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...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Program grant award of $562,752 will support Northeastern Technical College's "Technical Engineering for Advanced Manufacturing" (TEAM) project in Cheraw, South Carolina. The project aims to develop a technician-based engineering technology program to address the local manufacturing sector's need for skilled technicians. The key components of the TEAM project include: Collaborating with a Business and...

This $475,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant awarded to the Alamo Community College District's St. Philip's College will develop a comprehensive Career and Technical Education (CTE) pathway in Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS). The goal is to create an Associate of Applied Science (AAS) degree program in Commercial Drone Operations, which will be the only UAS program in the greater San Antonio area. The project will leverage faculty expertise and industry partnerships to prepare...

The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) received a $11.9 million Project Grant award from the Department of Defense Washington Headquarters Service Office of Economic Adjustment to support workforce and supply chain development efforts in Texas from September 2021 through August 2026. The grant was awarded under the Community Investment federal grant program (CFDA 12.600), which provides assistance authorized by statute. Tees will work with sub-awardee Prairie View A&M...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $304,695 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to Digital Copilot, Inc. on June 1, 2025 for the development and validation of predictive algorithms to enhance aviation safety at airports without air traffic control services. This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project aims to create a low-cost, tablet-based system that leverages machine learning and aviation data analytics to...

The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) received a $221,452 Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to support research titled "Enabling Next-Generation Heterogeneous Computing for Massively Parallel High-Order Compressible CFD." The award period was from May 1, 2021 to April 30, 2022. The research was conducted under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The program aims to maintain Air...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency awarded a $50 million project grant to the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service on September 15, 2022 under the State and Local Homeland Security National Training Program (CFDA 97.005). Through this award, the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service, doing business as Teex, will provide national domestic preparedness training and services to state and local entities. As part of the Department of Homeland Security's Homeland Security National...

The U.S. Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Material Safety Administration (PHMSA) awarded a $725,339 Cooperative Agreement to Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) under the Pipeline Safety Research Competitive Academic Agreement Program (CFDA 20.724). The funding supports Tees' research into innovative solutions to enhance pipeline safety and integrity over a 3-year project period from Sep 30, 2023 to Sep 29, 2026. Tees, a division of the Texas A&M...