Project Grant 2312094
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) a 3-year $321,665 Project Grant under CFDA 47.041, the NSF Engineering program. Through this grant, UCLA will host a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site focused on mesoscopic functional nanomaterials. The REU will provide 10 undergraduate students per year, especially from community college backgrounds, with a 10-week summer research internship experience working on atomic-scale...
- The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $188,953 Project Grant to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant, effective September 18, 2023 through September 16, 2024, funds research to optimize neurosymbolic AI/ML models for latency, accuracy, and robustness on resource-constrained edge computing platforms. As the prime awardee, UCLA will leverage its research facilities,...
- The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), through its Office of Research Administration, has been awarded a $2,351,564.00 Project Grant from the Defense Health Agency under the CFDA Program 12.420 - Military Medical Research and Development. This four-year grant, with a period of performance from August 15, 2023 to August 14, 2027, will support research targeting the EGFR signaling network in glioblastoma. As the prime grantee, UCLA will leverage its research facilities, faculty...
- The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) received a $418,765 Project Grant award from the Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR) under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300). The award, effective September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2026, will support UCLA's research to develop improved representations of cloud mixing processes in unified parameterizations of sub-grid scale dynamics and cloud macrophysics. This work aims to advance weather and...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $134,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to conduct research on "Data-Driven Characterization and Control of Gust-Tolerant Flight of Super-Maneuverable Vehicles." The award, effective November 1, 2025, through October 31, 2029, supports fundamental and applied scientific research designed to advance Department of...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to The Trustees of Princeton University, Office of Research and Project Administration, under the NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. This 3-year grant supports collaborative research on developing theories and algorithms for scalable multi-agent planning and control to enable safe and robust autonomous electrical vertical take-off and...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of California, Irvine received a $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop a mathematical framework for trajectory optimization of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms in sensor networks. The award, effective October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2028, supports fundamental research aimed at enabling efficient data...
- The University of California, Los Angeles will receive $329,999 over three years from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems under a Project Grant award. The grant funds research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SWIFT: COGNITIVE-IOV WITH SIMULTANEOUS SENSING AND COMMUNICATIONS VIA DYNAMIC RF FRONT END" under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The research aims to develop new techniques enabling simultaneous sensing and...
- The University of California, Los Angeles received a $282,347 Project Grant award from the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory on August 1, 2021 to complete work by April 30, 2024. The grant was awarded under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to support the fabrication of brain-inspired networks for multifunctional intelligent systems. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain Air Force technological superiority and prevent...
- The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), received a $270,000 Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to develop a 3D scanning laser vibrometer for additive manufactured transducers, actuators, and robotic platforms. This award was made under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to maintain technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs and prevent technological surprise. The grant...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $399,999 Project Grant to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2026. This grant supports collaborative research to develop theories and algorithms for safe and robust multi-agent reinforcement learning to enable high-throughput urban air mobility (UAM) operations using electrical vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Key technical objectives include: 1) enhancing the safety and robustness of single-agent reinforcement learning for critical UAM applications, 2) advancing multi-agent reinforcement learning approaches to address challenges around heterogeneous agents and scalability, and 3) ensuring policy robustness and fast adaptation from simulations to the real world. The research aims to maintain U.S. global leadership in the emerging UAM field by tackling fundamental challenges in scaling up autonomous operations while ensuring safety and reliability. Additionally, UCLA's Office of Research Administration, as the prime awardee, holds a $261,694.92 indefinite delivery contract from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide animal per diem services in support of VA medical research projects using pigs. A $56,251.80 delivery order against this contract has been issued for services through September 2024.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $400.0k | 6/26/23 |