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Federal Grant Award Summary Spark Thermionics, Inc. received a $200,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) for the project "Thermionic Energy Conversion for Unattended Microreactor Operations." Awarded on July 8, 2025, with a completion date of July 7, 2026, this grant supports fundamental research and development of thermionic energy conversion technologies designed to enable...

Sydor Instruments, LLC received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 22, 2021 to develop a high voltage pulse generator for next generation light sources and colliders. The award was made under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which supports scientific discoveries and major scientific tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy and economic security. Sydor Technologies will utilize the...

The Project Grant award of $399,978 from the Department of Energy Office of Science will support METASURFACE-COUPLED AVALANCHE PHOTO DIODE research at Sivananthan Laboratories, Inc. in Bolingbrook, IL from June 2022 through June 2023. The award is being made under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which aims to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economic competitiveness through scientific discoveries and tools. Specifically, the...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science, through its Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), awarded a $206,500 Project Grant to Tech4Imaging LLC on July 10, 2023. The grant supports the development of a "Two-Phase Hydrogen Mass Flow Meter for Fuel Transfer in Ground Based Infrastructure". Tech4Imaging, a developer of non-invasive imaging technology, will leverage its Electrical Capacitance Volume Tomography (ECVT) sensor technology to create a prototype mass flow meter for...

The University of Pittsburgh received a $499,992 Project Grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E, CFDA 81.135) awarded July 9, 2025, to conduct research and development on the AVATAR (Active, Virtual and Resistive Transformers for Transmission and Distribution Systems and Resources) project through January 8, 2027. The project aims to transform traditional power grids into more resilient and efficient energy infrastructure by developing fractionally rated power...

INSPIRE Project - Federal Grant Award Summary New York University received a $3.5M cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) under the Cybersecurity, Energy Security & Emergency Response program (CFDA 81.008), effective October 1, 2025, through May 31, 2028. The award funds development and evaluation of the INSPIRE Anomaly Detection System (INSPIRE-ADS), a real-time distributed anomaly detection framework...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Photonlab of Fairfield, CA for its "NOVEL POSITION SENSITIVE PHOTOSENSOR TECHNOLOGY FOR RARE DECAY AND RARE PARTICLE DETECTION" project. The one-year project period runs from February 14, 2022 to February 13, 2023. Under this award, Photonlab will develop novel position sensitive photosensor technology to support rare decay and rare particle detection, in alignment with the Office of Science Financial...

Spec Sensors LLC was awarded a $199,912.24 cooperative agreement from the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology under the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach program (CFDA 11.620). The award will support Spec Sensors' development of next-generation amperometric gas sensors through miniaturization and cost reduction. Specifically, Spec Sensors will design thinner sensor materials, validate roll-to-roll printing techniques, and develop new inks...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $500,000 to the University of Maryland, College Park to develop techniques for directly measuring the intensity of ultra-high power laser light. The project aims to enable real-time, minimally intrusive measurement of laser focal spot characteristics, a critical capability for advancing high-powered laser research. This includes developing methodologies...

The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy awarded Blue Sky Measurements, Inc. a $499,500 project grant to develop an "optical NIR fixed-position passive scanner for methane detection and measurement." The grant was awarded under Funding Opportunity Announcement DE-FOA-0001954, Topic T, on June 21, 2021 with a completion date of December 20, 2022. Through this funding, Blue Sky Measurements will deliver an optical scanner that utilizes near infrared...