Cooperative Agreement W911NF2120291

This Cooperative Agreement award, with a total funding of $1,190,373.00, was granted by the U.S. Army's Research Development and Engineering Command on January 28, 2025 to support the "REQUIREMENT DESIGNED NANOMATERIAL ARCHITECTURE FOR SENSING, COMMUNICATION, AND MATERIAL" project under the Department of Defense's Basic Scientific Research Program (CFDA 12.431). The award aims to pursue high-risk, high-payoff fundamental research to expand scientific knowledge and capabilities in areas...

Design Interactive, Inc. was awarded a $209,998.17 cooperative agreement from the Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command to support research related to threat identification, recognition, and detection from September 30, 2021 through March 31, 2023. The award was made under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431), which aims to fund basic research that could improve Army programs and operations. Specifically, the cooperative agreement...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Defense's Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) provides $200,000.00 in funding to the University of Massachusetts Lowell to support basic research on the design and characterization of microstructured media for protection against extreme loadings. The award will fund foundational and applied research to develop advanced materials and computational modeling capabilities with potential military applications. The University...

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...

BAM Range Phase IIB Capability Development Cooperative Agreement Summary The Texas A&M University System was awarded a $14.255 million Cooperative Agreement on June 15, 2026, under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431), funded by the Army Research Development and Engineering Command. This two-year agreement, with an ultimate completion date of June 14, 2028, supports the BAM Range Phase IIB Capability Development initiative to address Department of the Army (DoA) critical...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The U.S. Army Research Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) awarded a new start Cooperative Agreement totaling $118,677 to The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology on March 9, 2026, under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The three-year award, with completion scheduled for March 8, 2029, funds research focused on AI-assisted char yield prediction for resins with high heteroatom content. This research effort supports...

This federal Project Grant award of $100,000 was made by the Department of the Army under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) to support fundamental research with potential military applications. The grant was awarded to Watch Bird AS, a for-profit limited liability company in Norway, with a period of performance from March 1, 2024 to February 28, 2025. The research funded under this award will advance key capabilities such as quantum computing, artificial intelligence, robotics,...

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...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Award Summary Northeastern University received a $500,000 Cooperative Agreement from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Defense Sciences Office, under the Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910). The award, dated September 30, 2025, with a completion date of September 29, 2027, supports innovative research to develop advanced deep neural network (DNN) algorithms for tactical mobile devices operating in resource-constrained...

Summary Arizona State University (ASU) was awarded a $250,000 cooperative agreement by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Defense Sciences Office under the Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910) with an award date of September 30, 2025 and completion date of September 29, 2027. Under this Young Faculty Award (YFA), ASU will conduct innovative research focused on developing flowable spherical micron-sized nanoporous metal foam (SM-NMF) powders to create...