Project Grant FA23862214029

The U.S. Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) awarded a $399,964 Cooperative Agreement to D-Prime LLC on June 1, 2025 under the Department of Defense Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The award, titled "TRANSFORMING COMMAND AND CONTROL: THE IMPERATIVE FOR ADAPTIVE HUMAN-AI SYSTEMS", supports basic research to advance fundamental knowledge and develop innovative scientific capabilities in areas critical to...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Defense (DoD) Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) under the DoD Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) provides $154,325.81 in funding to Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Incorporated (ORAU) to conduct research analyzing soldier-robot communication and interaction in complex scenarios. The award supports foundational and applied research in areas critical to national security, such as robotics and...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Defense under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431), supports research on "Brain-Inspired Human-Robot Cooperative Autonomy via Distributed Inference and Trust." The $250,000 award to the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. will fund the development of trust-based algorithms and mechanisms to enable robots to evaluate and combine inputs from human operators, improving the efficiency and robustness of...

The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Incorporated $208,418.65 under a Cooperative Agreement to study human-autonomy teaming through mobile games and wearable sensors from September 7, 2021 through October 31, 2023. This award will support research related to the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431), which aims to fund basic research that could improve Army programs or operations....

The U.S. Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research awarded a $540,483.73 Project Grant under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on October 1, 2024. The grant aims to develop and demonstrate a novel "HARMONIC: HUMAN-AI ROBOTIC TEAM MEMBER OPERATING WITH NATURAL INTELLIGENCE AND COMMUNICATION" system. The project will explore the utility of an advanced cognitive robotic system, its collaborative capabilities with...

The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded a $199,022 cooperative agreement to The Regents of the University of Colorado under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 12.630). The award will support research from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2023 to develop neuro-mimicry techniques for modeling human-agent collaborative problem solving. The goal is to advance technology for Department...

The Department of the Air Force awarded a $140,000 project grant to the University of California, San Diego under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to support basic research for proposal 21IOA042 titled "Cognitive Trust-Based Task Assignment in Human-Machine Teaming." The research, which will be conducted from November 2021 through November 2023, aims to maintain technological superiority and prevent technological surprise in scientific areas relevant to Air...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $209,021 Project Grant on September 30, 2023 to Kanto Gakuin University under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant will fund basic scientific research and technological development over a 3-year period ending on September 29, 2026. The research aims to investigate the use of emotional AI technologies in a transnational, cross-cultural and multi-sectoral context. The key objectives are to maintain technological...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $500,000 Cooperative Agreement to the University of Texas at Austin under the CFDA 12.910 Research and Technology Development program. The award, titled "AD HOC AUTONOMOUS TEAMS: COLLABORATION WITHOUT PRE-COORDINATION (AD HOC TEAMWORK (AHT))", supports innovative, high-risk, high-reward research into developing transformative defense capabilities in areas such as artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, and...

The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded a $100,000 cooperative agreement to Carnegie Mellon University under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630). The award period is from July 20, 2021 through December 19, 2022. Under this cooperative agreement, Carnegie Mellon University will develop additional teamwork tasks and simulations to train symbiosis in human-agent teams. Researchers will...