Project Grant 24A60AP000076

Federal Grant Award Summary Novatech Innovations LLC received a $304,448 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084), effective July 15, 2025, with completion expected by May 31, 2026. The project, performed in San Diego, California, focuses on developing highly reflective nitride-based distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs) for infrared applications. The primary deliverable is an...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Defense Sciences Office awarded a $500,000 Cooperative Agreement to Northeastern University on September 30, 2025, under the Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910). The award, with a completion date of September 29, 2027, supports innovative research to develop advanced deep neural network (DNN) algorithms optimized for tactical mobile devices with low size, weight, and power (SWAP)...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Applied Ocean Sciences, LLC received a $225,599.96 Project Grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) for METOC (Meteorological and Oceanographic) Autonomy Systems Integration, Research and Experimentation. The award, effective May 1, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of April 30, 2028, supports research and development activities performed in Virginia. This three-year effort...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded $299,700 to Pricing Service, Inc. under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project running from October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026. The award funds development of an artificial intelligence-enabled automated pricing platform designed to provide dynamic pricing optimization capabilities to small and mid-sized...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Award Overview The Office of the Secretary of Defense awarded a Cooperative Agreement valued at $905,090.44 to Schoolcraft Community College District under the Procurement Technical Assistance For Business Firms program (CFDA 12.002) for the period of April 1, 2026 through March 31, 2027. This award funds the establishment and operation of an APEX Accelerator center designed to serve as a comprehensive resource for business entities, including newly...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Award Summary The Office of the Secretary of Defense awarded a Cooperative Agreement totaling $384,844.08 to Monterey County Business Council, Inc., effective July 1, 2025, through April 30, 2026, under the Procurement Technical Assistance For Business Firms program (CFDA 12.002). The awardee will establish and maintain an APEX Accelerator center in California to deliver free procurement technical assistance to U.S. businesses seeking to participate in federal,...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Award Summary The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Defense Sciences Office (DSO) awarded a $250,000 Cooperative Agreement to Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station under the Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910) on September 30, 2025, with performance completion targeted for September 29, 2027. This award supports research and development services focused on establishing a new field of high-entropy aqueous solution...

Federal Project Grant Summary Award Details: Syntek Technologies, Inc., a woman-owned small business, received a $252,825 Project Grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) effective July 1, 2025, with completion scheduled for June 30, 2030. Products and Services: The award funds high-resolution modeling of the atmosphere-ionosphere-plasmasphere system utilizing SAMI3 and FV3WAM (Finite-Volume cubed-sphere Atmosphere...

Summary of Federal Project Grant Award The Office of Naval Research (ONR) awarded $100,000 to the Research & Business Development Foundation at Sookmyung Women's University on August 27, 2025, under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300). This three-year project, scheduled for completion by August 26, 2028, supports research on AI-Centric Security and Resiliency Management (AI-SRM) for multi-dimensional future networks. The award funds fundamental and applied...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Exigent Solutions, Inc., an Asian-Pacific American-owned small business based in Aubrey, Texas, was awarded $1,168,940 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) for the period September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2027. The award funds Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II development of a physics-guided artificial intelligence (AI) platform designed to accelerate...