This $499,999 federal Project Grant award was provided by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), an agency within the U.S. Department of Energy, under the ARPA-E Federal Grant Program (CFDA 81.135). The purpose of the award is to support the development of the next generation of diode pump lasers for inertial confinement fusion (ICF) being pursued by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The goal is to increase the power density of the diode pump lasers from the...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), under the CFDA program "Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy", provides $499,946.00 to Exofusion, Inc. for a project titled "Novel Liquid Metal Plasma Facing Component Alloys". The project aims to develop new materials optimized for the core confinement and divertor plasma performance of fusion power plants (FPPs), as current solid tungsten and liquid lithium materials have...
This $500,000 Block Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) program, under CFDA 81.135, was made to EVA Technology Corp. on September 19, 2023. The funding supports the company's project titled "Anoprotonic Devices for >240 Performance Analog AI Hardware", which aims to develop novel analog artificial intelligence hardware components. This award aligns with ARPA-E's mission to fund transformative research and development...
The NK Labs, LLC federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) program is focused on advancing the development of active target technology for muon-catalyzed fusion energy. The $500,000 award, granted on Sep 22, 2023, aims to develop a design with further reduced beam energy per muon to strengthen the case for the feasibility of power production using muon-catalyzed fusion. This 2-year project supports ARPA-E's mission to...
The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $1,470,000 Cooperative Agreement under CFDA Program 81.135 to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) to conduct research and development on new materials for fusion reactor first walls. The goal is to discover, develop, and produce materials that can maintain critical performance metrics in a fusion environment, including room temperature ductility after high levels of radiation damage, high...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $449,100 Block Grant to Foundation Alloy Technology Explorations, Inc. on September 19, 2023. The funding supports the development of a new class of nanostructured alloys specifically engineered for powder metallurgy-based processing through 3D printing and sintering. The project aims to enable resilient and secure domestic supply chains for critical reactor components by leveraging novel materials...
This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) under CFDA 81.135 provides $1,499,586.00 in funding to New England Research, Inc. to demonstrate the feasibility of the Accelerated Mechanical Promotion (AMP) concept and approach for hydrogen production. The project aims to develop necessary tools, calibrate a workflow for implementation, and apply the technologies to assess field scenarios and commercialize products needed to...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $150,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Regents of the University of Michigan. The purpose of this award is to demonstrate a full-scale first-wall prototype based on tungsten-rich refractory multi-principal-element alloy (MPEA) compositions, addressing a key technology barrier to commercial fusion power. This 3-year project, running from January 2025 to January 2028, will leverage the University of...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science awarded a $100,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to the Colorado School of Mines. The grant, titled "INFUSE 2024: TESTING OF ENGINEERED MEMBRANES IN FUSION-RELEVANT METAL FOIL PUMPS," will support research and testing of engineered membranes for fusion-relevant metal foil pumps. The project aims to advance U.S. energy and national security priorities through scientific...
The Trustees of Princeton University's Office of Research and Project Administration has been awarded a $628,031 Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) program. The grant, which runs from September 19, 2023 to September 18, 2025, will support Princeton University's research to develop highly efficient charged particle beam injection into magnetically confined plasmas. This work aims to advance technologies related to optics, photonics,...