Cooperative Agreement AIDOAAF1700016

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $173,714 Project Grant under its Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to design novel pseudocapacitive materials that can significantly increase the energy storage capacity of electrochemical capacitors while enabling fast charging and discharging. The project aims to establish the fundamental relationships between material structure, charge storage dynamics, and charge transfer processes to enable...

The $14,000,000 Section 4 Capacity Building for Community Development and Affordable Housing program, administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (CFDA 14.252), provides funding to national intermediary organizations to build the technical and administrative capacity of Community Development Corporations (CDCs) and Community Housing Development Organizations (CHDOs). The grant supports activities to enhance CDCs' and CHDOs' ability to participate in community planning,...

This $87.1 million Project Grant from the Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration (FTA) under the Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants program (CFDA #20.500) will fund capital investments to supplant local matching funds for the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District's (Bart) Transbay Corridor Core Capacity project. Specifically, the grant awarded September 10, 2021 will replace $44.2 million, $14.0 million, and $28.8 million of local funds budgeted for...

This $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to Noon Energy Inc. aims to develop a new ultra-low-cost rechargeable carbon-oxygen battery for long-duration renewable energy storage. The key objectives are to create and validate a multi-physics model of the optimized reactor, design the optimized reactor and operating conditions, and build and test several prototypes to demonstrate the...

The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) was awarded a $39,822,803 Project Grant by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) through the Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants program (CFDA 20.500) to support the BART Core Capacity Project. This funding will be used to upgrade BART's system and rolling stock to accommodate increased transit capacity, including the design and construction of the Transbay Corridor Core Capacity Project. The goal is to provide safe, reliable, and...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) [CFDA 81.135] provides $1,317,842 to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation to develop an "Alkali Hydroxide Triple Phase Flow Battery (3PFB)". The proposed 3PFB system will enable reversible operation of ultra-high energy density battery chemistries (>1,000 Wh/kg and Wh/L) through an innovative design inspired by fuel injection and conventional flow batteries. A...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, with a total funding amount of $11,158,273.00, was granted by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program. The primary objective of the Commercial Carbon TerraVault III (CTV III) CO2 Storage Project is to provide a safe, effective, and commercial-scale carbon dioxide (CO2) storage solution in the greater San Francisco and Sacramento area of...

This federal Formula Grant award of $999,661.00 from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration under the Highway Planning and Construction program (CFDA 20.205) will fund the Stockton Fiber Optic Implementation Phase 2 project in the City of Stockton, California. The project involves installing fiber optic cables and synchronizing traffic signals in downtown Stockton to improve signal coordination and transportation efficiency. A sub-award of an unspecified amount...

The Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration awarded $713,406 to the California Department of Transportation under the Highway Planning and Construction program (CFDA 20.205) on March 21, 2022. The funding will support installation of a new traffic responsive signal control system on West Lane between Harding Way and Enterprise Street in California. As part of the federal Formula Grant award, the City of Stockton will receive sub-award funding to support related work on West...

This Project Grant award from the Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants program (CFDA 20.500) provides $1,025,000.00 to the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board, operating as Caltrain, to develop the San Francisco Railyards Transit Oriented Communities (TOC) Implementation Strategy. The funding will support the following key activities: 1) Develop a cohesive neighborhood planning and public realm improvement strategy for the San Francisco Railyards...