Project Grant DEAR0002133
- Federal Grant Award Summary Massachusetts Institute of Technology received a $595,000 Project Grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) under CFDA 81.135, awarded November 14, 2025, with a completion date of November 13, 2027. Titled "Enhancing High-Performance Grid Optimization Algorithms," this research and development initiative advances computational methods for solving large-scale security-constrained alternating current (AC) unit commitment problems in...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $699,000 Project Grant award dated August 15, 2025, from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The award supports fundamental scientific research on penetration-capacitance measurements and noise spectroscopies of rhombohedral multilayer and twisted bilayer graphene, with project completion scheduled for February 14, 2027. The research...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Massachusetts Institute of Technology received a $975,000 Project Grant award dated September 15, 2025, from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The award supports research aligned with the "Randomized Optimal Acquisition of Heterogeneous Data in Misspecified Problems" initiative, with a project completion date of September 14, 2026. The research will be conducted at MIT's...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $300,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2026. The award supports the design of charged-particle diagnostic systems engineered to operate at moderate repetition rates, with the objective of advancing direct-drive laser fusion energy research...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $254,401 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy under the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA 81.121) for Fiscal Year 2025 Scientific Infrastructure Support for Consolidated Innovative Nuclear Research. The award, dated March 20, 2026, with a completion date of March 19, 2027, supports scientific infrastructure improvements and facility...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Massachusetts Institute of Technology received a $875,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science (CFDA 81.049: Office of Science Financial Assistance Program) for the project "Hierarchical Representations of Complex Physical Systems with Euclidean Neural Networks," with performance scheduled from September 15, 2025, through September 14, 2026. The award supports fundamental scientific research aimed at developing advanced neural...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $450,000 Project Grant award dated August 15, 2025, through the Department of Energy Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to conduct fundamental scientific research on spin polarized tunneling in symmetry-breaking antiferromagnets. The research will be conducted at MIT's Cambridge, Massachusetts facility and is scheduled for completion by February 14, 2027. This award supports...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Massachusetts Institute of Technology received a $350,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) awarded August 1, 2025, with completion targeted for July 31, 2028. This collaborative research initiative will deliver fundamental scientific knowledge and theoretical modeling insights regarding the behavior of water-in-salt electrolytes...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Massachusetts Institute of Technology received a $1,062,129.34 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) for the period August 15, 2025 through August 14, 2026. The award supports fundamental research to develop laboratory-driven, machine-learned constitutive models for fracture network evolution in the deep crust. This research initiative focuses on advancing...
- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was awarded a $399,902 project grant from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to support its "Alternating Direction Decomposition with Strong Bounding and Convexification (ADD-SBC) for Solving Security Constrained AC Unit Commitment Problems" initiative under ARPA-E's Grid Optimization (GO) Competition Challenge 3. The grant period runs from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2023. Under this...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology received a $500,000 Project Grant award on May 12, 2026, under the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) Inspiring Generations of New Innovators to Impact Technologies in Energy (IGNIITE) 2025 program (CFDA 81.135). The research and development project, titled "Negative Capacitance Electrostatic Energy Storage Technology for Powering Data Centers," will be conducted in Cambridge, MA, with a completion date of May 11, 2028. The project aims to advance negative-permittivity capacitor technology by scaling total energy output through a novel in-plane geometry approach, thereby overcoming the energy density limitations inherent in traditional bulk electrostatic capacitors for data center applications. The award supports fundamental research into transformative energy storage solutions aligned with ARPA-E's mission of developing high-potential, high-impact energy technologies that advance U.S. energy security and efficiency. This project represents the type of early-stage, innovative technology development that ARPA-E prioritizes—one that is too nascent for private-sector investment but has significant potential to impact critical infrastructure power management and reduce operational energy costs for large-scale computing facilities.Federal Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $500.0k | 5/12/26 |