Project Grant NNX15AV70G

This $255,843 National Science Foundation project grant under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program will fund research and development of an integrated high lift propulsor to enable affordable and energy-efficient advanced air mobility aircraft designs. Wayfarer Aircraft Research and Development Inc. will conduct wind tunnel experiments and computational fluid dynamics simulations from August 2022 to July 2023 to characterize aerodynamic interactions between a propeller and wing...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $249,469 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Austin under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant funds the "TESTBED FOR AUTONOMY IN CONTESTED ENVIRONMENTS" project, which will develop and operate an experimental platform to advance research on autonomous systems operating in complex and adversarial conditions. The work directly supports the goals of the Defense...

This U.S. Department of the Army grant, awarded under the Basic Scientific Research (CFDA 12.431) program, provides $554,354 to the University of South Florida (USF) to develop and validate autonomous control methods for safe urban air mobility using an experimental EVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) testbed. The award period runs from February 1, 2024 to January 31, 2025. As a major public research university, USF will leverage its expertise in areas like engineering, robotics,...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) awarded a $5,500,000 Project Grant under the Fueling Aviation's Sustainable Transition via Sustainable Aviation Fuels (FAST-SAF) and Low-Emissions Aviation Technologies (FAST-Tech) Grant Program (CFDA 20.115) to Heart Aerospace Incorporated, a manufacturer of goods located in Palo Alto, California. The grant, awarded on January 2, 2025, supports the development and integration of a Total Hybrid Electric Management and Integration System (THEMIS) to...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation supports the development of a modular, reconfigurable unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platform at Penn State University. Funded under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program for $100,000, the award period is July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023. The project aims to develop a system of self-contained, compatible rotorcraft modules that can be assembled in various configurations to fulfill diverse transportation and payload...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) award under CFDA 47.041 - Engineering provides $300,000 in funding to The University of Iowa to research methods for integrating unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) with manned aircraft during airport landing procedures. The key focus areas include: 1) developing advanced motion planning algorithms to coordinate the navigation and control of multiple manned and unmanned aircraft, 2) enhancing pilot comfort...

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) awarded a $2,490,000 Project Grant to Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation, doing business as Collins Aerospace, under the Fueling Aviation's Sustainable Transition via Sustainable Aviation Fuels (FAST-SAF) and Low-Emissions Aviation Technologies (FAST-Tech) Grant Program (CFDA 20.115). This grant supports critical research projects to evaluate the impact of sustainable aviation fuels on aircraft fuel system robustness, advance low-emissions...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Air Force under CFDA Program 12.630 "Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering" provides $171,695.00 to the University of Florida (UF) for an "Adaptive Optimal Control Approach for Multi-Agent Autonomy in Aerospace Applications." The award period runs from September 18, 2024 to August 31, 2025. The funding supports research by UF to develop advanced control systems and algorithms to enable greater autonomy and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) to George Washington University in the amount of $399,998 supports research aimed at designing theories and algorithms for scalable multi-agent planning and control to enable safe and robust urban air mobility (UAM) operations using electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. The key technical objectives of the project include: 1) developing safety and robustness techniques for single-agent...

The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded a $100,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The award is titled "Multi-Disciplinary Modeling Tool for All-Electric and Hybrid-Electric Aircraft" and will run from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027. The Cooperative Agreement will support Tees in developing advanced engineering solutions and innovative technologies for all-electric...