General Atomics was awarded a $376,789 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The award will support the PROJECT ALF (AI LEARNS FUSION): SCIENCE DISCOVERY AND CONTROL WITH DATA DRIVEN MODELS project from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2023. The project aims to advance science discovery and control using data-driven models through the development of artificial intelligence techniques applied to...
The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support the project "EXPLORATION OF RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR SEEDING MECHANISMS IN LASER- AND PULSED-POWER-DRIVEN INERTIAL FUSION PLATFORMS" from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2023. The Office of Science's mission is to deliver scientific discoveries and tools that advance energy technologies...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $596,618.00, was provided by the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) under the Stewardship Science Grant Program (CFDA 81.112). The award was granted to the University of Texas at Austin to conduct research aimed at predicting the quantitative systematic relationships between photon jets and various laser and plasma control parameters, including laser intensity/target density combination, laser incidence angle on...
This Project Grant award, valued at $299,271.00, was provided by the Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE NNSA) under the Stewardship Science Grant Program (CFDA 81.112). The primary objective is to investigate the behavior of matter under extreme conditions of pressure, temperature, and magnetic field, obtain a greater understanding of the physics of d- and f-electron materials, and train the next generation of scientists in the performance of high-pressure...
The federal Project Grant award of $206,500.00 from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) will support advanced instrumentation and deployment methods for high resolution shallow temperature measurements. The award to Atlas Energy LTD Co, a for-profit limited liability company, has a period of performance from July 22, 2024 to July 21, 2025. This grant funding aims to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $875,000.00, was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to the Georgia TECH Research Corp, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Programs, a non-profit research organization and state institution of higher education. The funding will support the "Scalable Additive Manufacturing of Spherical Foam Targets for Inertial Fusion Energy" research project over a 2-year period...
The University of Rochester was awarded a $460,000 federal Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to conduct research on "MITIGATION OF CROSS BEAM ENERGY TRANSFER AND HOT ELECTRONS BY LASER SPECTRAL BANDWIDTH." The award period is from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025. The Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program supports fundamental scientific research across multiple disciplines to...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $627,000 Project Grant (CFDA 81.049 - Office of Science Financial Assistance Program) to Angelo State University in San Angelo, TX. The grant will fund a research project titled "Modeling Ion-Irradiated Mechanical Properties of Novel High-Power Target Materials" from February 1, 2025 to January 31, 2026. The research aims to advance scientific understanding and technological innovation in areas supporting U.S. energy, economic, and...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $647,500.00 to the University of Toledo to develop resonant microwave plasma sources that can improve the efficiency of compact plasma-based accelerators. The award has a period of performance from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025. The project aims to advance scientific research and technological innovations that can support U.S. energy, economic, and...
This federal Project Grant award, funded by the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), provides $600,000.00 to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to conduct in-silico design of plasma-based accelerator stages using advanced computational models and optimization techniques. The research project aims to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through transformative scientific discoveries in areas such as quantum...