The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $250,000 Young Faculty Award (YFA) program grant to the University of Massachusetts under the Research and Technology Development federal grant program (CFDA 12.910). The grant aims to engage rising academic researchers early in their careers, exposing them to Department of Defense (DoD) needs and DARPA's mission to create and prevent technological surprise. The research funded through this award is expected to investigate...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $250,000 Project Grant under the Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910) to President and Fellows of Harvard College. The grant aims to support innovative, high-risk, high-reward fundamental and applied research at Harvard to develop transformative defense capabilities and prevent technological surprise. The research will investigate revolutionary approaches across scientific and technological domains of interest...
The University of Michigan was awarded a $250,000 Project Grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under the Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910). The grant will support basic, applied, and advanced research at the University from September 2021 through September 2023 that may have military or dual-use applications. As the place of performance is listed as Michigan, it can be inferred the research will be conducted at the University's campus location....
The federal Project Grant award under CFDA program 12.910 "Research and Technology Development" provides $250,000.00 in funding to the Regents of the University of Michigan to conduct innovative, high-risk, high-reward research in areas of interest to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The research supported by this 2-year award, effective Sep 1, 2024, aims to develop transformative defense capabilities and prevent technological surprise, with a focus on...
The University of Massachusetts was awarded a $1,773,267 Cooperative Agreement under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910) to construct a nanophotonic system that encompasses a squeezer, high gain measurement optical amplifier, pump generator, phase-stable programmable interferometers, and balanced homodyne detector integrated on a thin-film lithium niobate on insulator platform. This system is intended to advance...
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $250,000 Project Grant under the DARPA Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910) to the University of Illinois. The grant, which spans from September 2024 to August 2026, aims to identify and engage rising academic stars and researchers at non-profit institutions, particularly those without prior DARPA funding, to expose them to Department of Defense needs and DARPA's mission. The grant will provide...
This $126,940 federal Project Grant award was provided by the U.S. Department of Defense Research Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The funding will support the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA in acquiring an interfacial tensiometry system. This research equipment will enable the university to conduct fundamental and applied scientific research advancing national security priorities in areas such as materials...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $250,000 Project Grant under the Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910) to Yale University. The grant, with a performance period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026, aims to support innovative, high-risk, high-reward research that can enable transformative defense capabilities and prevent technological surprise. Yale University, as the prime awardee, will conduct fundamental, applied, and advanced research...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a Project Grant under its Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910) to the University of Missouri System, totaling $250,000 over a period of 24 months from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026. The grant funds research and development activities focused on enabling innovative, transformative defense capabilities. Specifically, the University of Missouri System will conduct fundamental, applied, and advanced...
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $250,000 Project Grant under the DARPA Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910) to The University of Kentucky Research Foundation. The award, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2026, supports innovative, high-risk, high-reward fundamental and applied research focused on developing transformative defense capabilities and preventing technological surprise. The grant aims to engage rising academic...