Formula Grant 21PEWALWC6

This $419,976 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Western Washington University to address ice formation challenges for next-generation gravitational wave detectors. The university will develop a modular optical cryostat to study cryogenic ice layers on cold optical surfaces at 120 Kelvin, the planned operating temperature of LIGO Voyager. Students and investigators will use the cryostat to better understand ice properties, impacts on gravitational wave detectors,...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation, under the Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program (CFDA 15.078), will develop an advanced snow estimation product using a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model. The $1,270,676.70 project, with an award date of January 30, 2025 and a completion date of December 31, 2027, will leverage near-daily CubeSat data, ground observations, and LiDAR snow maps to enhance a process-based distributed hydrologic...

Summary The West Virginia Division of Highways received a Cooperative Agreement award of $121,265.62 from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) under the Highway Training & Education Local Technical Assistance Program (CFDA 20.294) to support statewide development and distribution of educational materials for calendar year 2026. The award, effective March 9, 2026, through December 28, 2029, funds the Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) Center operations in West Virginia. Through...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $1,060,448 Cooperative Agreement on December 20, 2023, under the Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program (CFDA 15.078) to The Regents of the University of Colorado. This grant aims to improve water supply forecasts by enhancing snow monitoring through the deployment of emerging technologies, such as airborne LiDAR, and better integration of snow data into forecasting models. The project has two sub-awards - one to Oregon State University to assist in...

LIEI-2026 LIHEAP Infrastructure Supplement - Award Summary The State of Wisconsin Department of Administration received $1,623,927 in Block Grant funding from the Office of Community Services (Administration for Children and Families) under the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP, CFDA 93.568) effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2027. This award supports Wisconsin's delivery of federally funded energy assistance services to eligible low-income households throughout the...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The University of Washington received a $96.2 million Cooperative Agreement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the NOAA Cooperative Institutes program (CFDA 11.432), effective July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2030. The award establishes the Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean, and Ecosystem Studies (CICOES), a consortium research institute co-located with NOAA partner laboratories including the Pacific Marine...

This $305,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through its Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, is developing innovative metasurface optical waveguiding devices (MOWGs) that control light on a sub-wavelength level. The goal is to overcome the limitations of traditional optical systems, such as weight, size, scalability, and cost, by replacing conventional optical components like lenses and...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $355,683 to California State University, Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The award supports research aimed at advancing optical technology to further explore the cosmos using gravitational waves. Key deliverables include characterizing and developing techniques to reduce laser light...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) provides $161,000.00 to the University of Washington to conduct collaborative research assessing the causal influence of atmospheric opacity (i.e., clouds) and sea ice on Arctic warming over the period 1980 to 2060. The research will leverage a well-established NSF-funded Earth System Model and observations, including data from the recent MOSAIC field campaign, to quantify how these factors...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Award Details: The National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) awarded a cooperative agreement to Peraton Labs Inc. (doing business as Applied Communication Sciences) for $1,144,572 on July 15, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of June 30, 2027. Products and Services: Under this collaborative research initiative titled "Democratizing Low Latency Wireless for Remote XR Medical Collaboration,"...