Cooperative Agreement W911NF2320218

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...

This Cooperative Agreement award is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Office of STEM Engagement (OSTEM) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 43.008). The $100,000 award will support the development of a finite element-based user material model for thermo-mechanically coupled fatigue damage accumulation in additively manufactured short-fiber thermoplastic composites. The project aims to bridge microstructural and macroscale properties to enable rapid assessment of the...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the Department of the Army's Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431), provides $100,841.96 to Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Incorporated (ORAU) to conduct multimaterial structural topology optimization with fracture analysis over the next 12 months. The key objectives are to: 1) transition ORAU's thermo-fracture phase-field code to the FEniCSX topology...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $4,800,000.00 from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Engineer Research and Development Center was granted to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) on August 18, 2025. The funding supports the "Multiscale Computational Design Methodologies for Rapid Processing of Ultra Lightweight Materials in Infrastructure Applications" project under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630). The project aims...

The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) awarded the University of Delaware a $3,060,498 cooperative agreement under the ARPA-E program (CFDA #81.135) on September 13, 2022 to develop efficient manufacturing of lightweight composite architected structures for transportation vehicles through September 12, 2025. Under the award, the University of Delaware will lead a consortium to develop and commercialize Composite Architected Materials Processing (CAMP), a...

The federal Cooperative Agreement award titled "MECHANICAL RESPONSE OF AXIALLY BI-CONTINUOUS GRAPHENE-METAL COMPOSITES UNDER HIGH LOADING CONDITIONS" was awarded by the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) under the Basic Scientific Research Program (CFDA 12.431). The $100,000 award to Arizona State University (ASU) will fund research to expand scientific knowledge and technological capabilities in the areas of materials science and advanced technologies...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Army, under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431), provides $503,151.00 to the University of Arizona to research shock wave mitigation through additively manufactured lattice structures. The project, titled "Shock Wave Mitigation Through Additively Manufactured Lattice Structures," will be conducted from Sep 30, 2023 to Sep 29, 2025. The University of Arizona, a state-government entity, 1862 land grant...

Collier Research and Development Corporation was awarded a $105,759.17 Cooperative Agreement from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center on July 28, 2021 to complete work by June 30, 2022. The award supports Collier Research & Development Corp.'s HI-RATE COMPOSITE AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURING project, which aims to demonstrate manufacturing approaches and technologies to enable a 4-6 times increase in the production rate of large composite airframe structures...

This Project Grant award of $274,919 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of a new class of high-performance composite materials made from aluminum and carbon fiber. The key focus is on improving the interface between the metal and carbon fiber phases to create a low-defect, high-strength material with enhanced mechanical properties. The research aims to elucidate the microstructural evolution and...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded a $197,883 Cooperative Agreement to North Carolina State University (NC State) under the Measurement Science and Engineering (MSE) Research Grant Programs (CFDA 11.609). The purpose of this 2-year award is to advance the understanding of structure-property-process relationships in novel impact mitigating materials, which have important applications in sports, military, and law enforcement protective equipment. Through this...