Project Grant 2009VOS90001

The Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Eastern Region awarded Colorado State University a $5 million Project Grant under the Aircraft Pilots Workforce Development Grant Program (CFDA 20.111) for the period of March 1, 2023 through March 1, 2024. The goal of the grant program is to support the creation and delivery of curriculum designed to provide high school students with aircraft pilot education in accordance with the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018. Under this award,...

Federal Grant Award Summary The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) awarded the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) $156,250 under the Technology & Innovation Deployment Program (CFDA 20.227) to establish and launch a remote pilot training program. The award, effective November 6, 2025, with a completion date of December 1, 2030, supports TDOT's efforts to deploy innovative training methodologies that leverage remote delivery capabilities. This initiative aligns with the...

Federal Grant Award Summary Digital Copilot, Inc. received a $304,695 SBIR Phase I project grant awarded on June 1, 2025, by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084). The company is developing a low-cost, tablet-based predictive system designed to enhance aviation safety at the approximately 19,500 U.S. airports that lack Air Traffic Control (ATC) services. The system leverages machine learning and aviation data...

This Project Grant award in the amount of $1,944,563 from the U.S. Department of Transportation Immediate Office of the Secretary (CFDA 20.941 Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Grants Program) supports the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (DOT&PF) in creating a scalable demonstration project called the ARROW Program. The purpose is to place uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) in 10 strategic locations across Alaska to accomplish...

The Department of the Air Force awarded a $180,000 Project Grant to the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, a non-profit educational institution, under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant supports R&D, science, and engineering activities in the area of electrical engineering over a 2-year period from Sep 1, 2023 to Aug 31, 2025. The project aims to maintain technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs, prevent technological...

The Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded Purdue University a $277,750 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to support the "LDAD EMBEDDED FLOW CONTROL FOR TURBINES AND MODULATED ENHANCEMENT OF HEAT EXCHANGERS (LDADBFCMEHEX)" project from March 15, 2023 to October 14, 2023. The grant will fund research activities aimed at maintaining Air Force technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to its needs, preventing...

The Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Eastern Region awarded a $339,000 Project Grant to Florence School District 1 through the Aircraft Pilots Workforce Development Grant Program (CFDA 20.111). The goal of this January 2022 award is to support the creation and delivery of curriculum to provide high school students with aircraft pilot education in accordance with the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018. Specifically, the funding will allow Florence School District 1 to...

This $5,500,000 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), under the Congressionally-Identified Projects program (CFDA 11.617), aims to increase knowledge about local weather systems in the lower atmosphere. The key activities include: Developing a method to standardize and trace commercial UAS and advanced air mobility (AAM) atmospheric measurements, as well as protocols and standards for the Unmanned Aircraft Meteorological Data Report. Evaluating...

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 County of Scottsbluff School District 16 was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Eastern Region. The grant was awarded under the Aircraft Pilots Workforce Development Grant Program (CFDA 20.111) on January 18, 2022 for the period through July 19, 2023. The goal of this program is to support the creation and delivery of curriculum designed to provide high school students with aircraft pilot education. It can be inferred that...