Project Grant FA23861514098

This Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), provides $250,815.00 to the University of Illinois to develop bioinspired multispectral and polarization sensitive cameras. The award period runs from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026. The research aims to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force by preventing technological surprise and creating strategic advantages through...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Army Research Development and Engineering Command (DEVCOM), under the Department of Defense (DoD) Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431), provides $499,428.18 in funding to Alakai Defense Systems, Inc. to develop a photonics integrated circuit (PIC) based spectrometer for use in wavelength enhanced Raman spectroscopy (WERS) and wavelength enhanced Raman detection (WERD) applications. The award period runs from September 15, 2024 to...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award was granted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under the Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910). The $1,013,976 award will fund a research project titled "EQSTRA PROGRAM - BASE PERIOD: EQSTRA PROGRAM MULTI-OCTAVE AND NARROW-LINEWIDTH 5-MW THZ CHIP-SOURCES FOR PRECISION RYDBERG SENSING" at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from February 10, 2025 to February 9, 2027. The objective of the...

This Project Grant from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory, under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), provides $135,085 to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (doing business as Tees) for the period of March 1, 2022 through February 28, 2024. The funding supports the acquisition of an ultrahigh-resolution microscope Raman and synchronous fluorescence system to conduct materials characterization and analysis. As the...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) provides $174,000.00 to integrate and test a photonic quantum-inspired sub-diffraction imager at the Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing Observatory. The project, which runs from February 18, 2025 to April 18, 2026, will support the AFRL's efforts to maintain technological superiority and prevent technological surprise for the U.S. Air Force and...

The University of Arizona was awarded a $368,166 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems to develop short-wave infrared polarization sensitive focal plane arrays under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The goal of the Engineering program is to improve quality of life and economic strength through fostering innovation and excellence in engineering research and education. This project aims to advance short-wave infrared...

This $2,314,590 federal Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) is funding the "PRECISION RADIOMETRY FOR INCOHERENT SPECTRAL MEASUREMENTS (PRISM)" research project. The primary awardee is the University of Texas at Austin, with sub-awards to the University of California, Berkeley; Yale University; University of Colorado; University of Michigan; University of Central Florida; and University...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $1,375,000 was made on August 15, 2024 by the U.S. Army Research Office under the Department of Defense Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The award supports fundamental and exploratory research across diverse scientific and technological domains critical to national security, with a focus on quantum computing, materials science, artificial intelligence, and other strategic disciplines. Key activities under this Cooperative Agreement include...

This $200,000 Project Grant awarded on September 23, 2024 by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) supports fundamental research on "Quantum Sensing for Entangled Millimeter-Wave Photons". The primary awardee is President and Fellows of Harvard College, with Northeastern University as a sub-awardee responsible for modeling, measurement, and integration of graphene-based Josephson junction single-photon detectors...

The U.S. Air Force Academy awarded a $180,068 Cooperative Agreement to Strong EO Imaging, Inc. under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to conduct "Novel Imaging Research for the Center of Space and Situational Awareness Research." The agreement has a performance period from Sep 30, 2024 to Sep 29, 2029. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program supports fundamental and applied scientific research to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air...