Project Grant 2609535
- The National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded the University of Delaware $549,909 on September 1, 2026, for a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) project titled "AI-Driven Role-Aware Modeling of Cascading Disaster Impacts in Sociotechnical Systems" under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The project develops a human-centered disaster impact assessment framework that models how individual adaptive choices interact with...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $199,798 project grant under its Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of California Irvine (UCI) to develop a "Disaster Digital Twin" (DDT) framework that leverages human-centered data to improve community resilience, with a focus on older adult populations. The 3-year project aims to: Integrate diverse data sources (geospatial and human-centric) into a novel data architecture to support...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded the University of Delaware $524,630 on September 1, 2026, to develop an artificial intelligence and machine learning-accelerated decision framework for evaluating and optimizing decentralized stormwater management portfolios under changing environmental conditions. The project, funded under the CAREER program (NSF Engineering, CFDA 47.041), addresses stormwater systems strained by heavier...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Delaware received a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Social, Behavioral and Economic Science (CFDA 47.075) effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028, to advance infrastructure system resilience research. The project will deliver four primary products: (1) an Outage Impact Scale (OIS) that quantifies service interruption consequences across different user types such as residential and commercial...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded the University of Delaware a cooperative agreement valued at $5 million on July 15, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop and deploy human-AI cooperative systems for dynamic rehabilitation settings. The award funds the NSF AI Institute for Human-AI Cooperation, which will establish a symbiotic framework enabling AI systems to function as adaptive...
- This $1.5 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund the Collaborative Research: HDR DSC: Delaware and Mid-Atlantic Data Science Corps. Led by the University of Delaware as the primary awardee, the project will establish a data science corps through September 2024 to provide data resources, training programs, and research opportunities. Delaware State University and Lincoln University will receive sub-awards...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded the University of Delaware $579,891 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop mathematical and computational tools for modeling directed group interactions in complex systems. The project will create a unified framework for signal processing, structure learning, and neural network modeling on directed hypergraphs—network models whose...
- This $257,914 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), will develop a national cyberinfrastructure called the Human Dynamics and Resilience Infrastructure (HNDS-I) to advance disaster resilience research. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing four new integrated databases from sources like social media and cell-phone mobility data...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded the University of Delaware $536,330 on October 1, 2026, to develop next-generation satellite lidar sensing, neural compression, and accelerated neural inference capabilities under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The project addresses three interconnected limitations in current satellite lidar systems: low photon detection rates, constrained data transmission capacity, and substantial computing...
- This $1,004,210 Project Grant, awarded January 1, 2026, through the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) by the Office of Integrative Activities, supports the development of the Decision-Support Data Integration Network System (DESDINY)—a unified data and information integration platform designed to improve wildfire response capabilities across U.S. firefighting agencies. The primary deliverables include a human-centered design research framework that addresses...
The National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded the University of Delaware $500,000 on August 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to plan DISCAT 2.0, a next-generation, AI-driven national synthesis hub for convergent disaster research and intelligence. The planning project will design a four-tier agentic architecture comprising an adaptive knowledge broker, reasoning domain agents, functional agents, and a federated data layer to connect existing disaster archives and enable active resource use for science and decision-making. Planning activities include mapping user personas and analytical workflows through community workshops with researchers, emergency managers, and policy stakeholders; refining semantic reasoning and human-AI interaction patterns via wizard-of-oz prototyping; developing ontologies and knowledge-graph schemas anchored in established disaster-science concepts; defining API standards, containerization, and security and governance protocols for sensitive data; and validating feasibility through scenario-based workflow drills, latency testing, and data audits. The hub will serve hurricanes, wildfires, floods, earthquakes, and other catastrophic events, broadening access for under-resourced communities and supporting training of the next generation of disaster researchers and practitioners. The initiative builds on the University of Delaware's Disaster Research Center and the prior NSF-funded DISCAT 1.5/INFOCHAIN system. Work is performed in Newark, Delaware. The period of performance runs from August 1, 2026, through July 31, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $500.0k | 7/23/26 |