Formula Grant DERW0000207

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Award Overview The University of Texas at Austin received a $2.0 million Cooperative Agreement from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E, CFDA 81.135) awarded on March 12, 2026, for the RECOVER Biomimetic Membranes project. The two-year effort, concluding March 11, 2028, focuses on developing and validating a bioinspired membrane system capable of selectively recovering valuable nutrients and critical minerals—including ammonium, phosphate,...

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Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The University of Texas at Austin received a $4.03 million Cooperative Agreement from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E, CFDA 81.135) awarded on November 4, 2025, to develop advanced technologies for improving energy recovery rates in Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS). The project, titled "Improving the Energy Recovery Rate in Enhanced Geothermal Systems," will be executed through November 3, 2028, and focuses on designing...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Halliburton Technology Partners LLC received a $4.0 million Cooperative Agreement from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), CFDA 81.135, awarded September 29, 2025, for a three-year project completing September 28, 2028. The company will develop and deliver a quantum-enhanced radio frequency (RF) photonic imaging system designed to improve subsurface imaging capabilities for geothermal exploration and resource management. The technology...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), part of the U.S. Department of Energy, provides $1,655,480.00 to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) for a 2-year project titled "Reservoir Management of Natural Hydrogen from Ultramafic Rocks" (CFDA 81.135). The project aims to explore the technology and processes required for managing natural hydrogen reservoirs found in ultramafic rocks. As a state-affiliated research...

Global Optimal Technology, Inc. received a $485,000 Project Grant award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E, CFDA 81.135) under the Grid Optimization (GO) Competition Challenge 3 funding opportunity (FOA DE-FOA-0002690). The award, issued December 3, 2025, supports research and development through December 2, 2027, at the company's Ithaca, New York facility. The project delivers an innovative AC security-constrained resource commitment (SC-RC) methodology and real-time...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Phoenix Tailings Inc. received a $1.6 million cooperative agreement award dated February 18, 2026, from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E, CFDA 81.135) to develop the SELECT (Selective Extraction via Ligand-Enhanced Complexation and Thermal Separation) project under the RECOVER (Realize Energy-Rich Compound Opportunities Valorizing Extraction from Refuse Waters) initiative. The project will be performed in Woburn, Massachusetts, with a...

This cooperative agreement award of $262,177.92 from the Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration will support the University of Texas at Austin in improving estimation of technically recoverable oil and gas resources for the National Energy Modeling System. Under the award, which runs from April 15, 2021 through April 14, 2022, the University will incorporate original oil- and gas-in-place heat maps into well-level production data processing routines. This aims to specifically...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089) awarded a $1,619,426 Cooperative Agreement to RTX Corporation's Raytheon Technologies Research Center to advance the technology readiness level of an electrochemically activated oxygen sorbent and reactor system. The project aims to develop a scalable, efficient, and durable electrochemical oxygen separation technology to enable high-quality syngas production and carbon capture for hydrogen production...

The National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded $387,725 under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station to enhance radiative energy tunneling with dielectric optical resonators and study its application in harvesting thermal energy within solids. Specifically, the award will support research to extend the useful range of near-field thermal radiation to micrometer-levels...