Project Grant AF145630560

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...

The University of Iowa received a $510,268 Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to support research titled "Intelligent Tactical Autopilot to Advance Basic Understanding of Human Reliance and Teaming in Mixed Human-Machine Teams." The grant period runs from July 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022. The funding supports research under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), which aims to maintain Air Force...

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...

This $250,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports a collaborative research project to enhance the cognitive capabilities of aviation maintenance technicians through the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and extended reality (XR) technologies. The primary goal is to improve inspection processes and reduce maintenance errors that cause aircraft accidents. The award is funding research and development led by a...

The Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Eastern Region awarded a $913,453 cooperative agreement to The Ohio State University Office of Sponsored Programs under the Aviation Research Grants program (CFDA 20.108). The award will support development of guidance for designing human-automation systems for air traffic control over a two-year period from December 2022 to December 2024. Under the award, The Ohio State University will collaborate with the University of...

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,...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), under its Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards program (CFDA 11.609), awarded a $109,993.36 cooperative agreement to Airt Inc. (doing business as Airborne International Response Team) for the period of April 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022. The purpose of this cooperative agreement is to validate standard test methods for small unmanned aircraft system pilots employed by public safety organizations. NIST's Measurement and...

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...

Illinois Institute of Technology's Sponsored Research and Programs Division received a $148,396 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) awarded on September 1, 2026, with a completion date of August 31, 2029. The award supports fundamental and applied research titled "A Neural-Optical Flow Approach for Measuring 3D Supersonic Turbulent Shock-Boundary-Layer Interactions," as described in the grantee's...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Aerogriduav B.V. received a $175,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) to develop autonomous precision landing technology for a variable skew-quad plane Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) capable of landing on moving ground vehicles. The award was obligated on March 16, 2026, with a completion date of March 15, 2027, and performance is taking place...