This $150,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the Air Force under the Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) will fund research by the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University) in Australia to understand lateral field emitters as an electron source in microwave vacuum electron devices. The award, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2027, supports fundamental scientific research to advance knowledge and capabilities in this critical defense technology area....
This Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) provides $125,000.00 in funding to the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University) in Australia. The award supports research on data-driven reduced order modeling and preliminary experimentation to investigate the combined effects of transonic buffet and freeplay-induced limit cycle oscillations. This research aims to...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $120,422 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University) in Australia. The grant, awarded on September 30, 2024, supports basic research on the development of a "Thermal Fuse for Inexpensive Certification of Thermal AM Components" through September 29, 2027. The research aims to contribute to technological innovation and national security...
The University of Michigan was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to conduct research on "TIME MODULATED METAMATERIALS/METASURFACES FOR FREQUENCY CONVERSION AND AMPLIFICATION". The research project aims to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force by advancing scientific understanding and capabilities in areas critical to national defense, such as...
The U.S. Air Force awarded a $114,740 Project Grant to the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant, which runs from August 19, 2024 to August 18, 2026, will fund research to uncover the effects of surging unsteady flows on the performance of wings. UNSW, a prominent Australian research institution, has a strong track record of executing federal research contracts and grants, particularly in advanced...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $118,126 project grant to Monash University in Australia under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant will support research into Optimal Transport Theory for Machine Learning with Limited and Less Labels from September 2021 through September 2023. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force...
The Australian National University received a $150,000 project grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant will fund research to develop novel high quality germanium and gallium phosphide alloys for mid-infrared photodetectors from June 10, 2022 to June 9, 2023. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain U.S. technological superiority in scientific...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $148,800 Project Grant to the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) on August 4, 2025 under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant supports UTS's research to develop sustainable high-performance transitory structures using biobased materials. UTS has a history of providing advanced technical consulting and research support on federal research projects, including sub-contract work with HRL Laboratories, LLC on...
The federal Project Grant award FA23862414025 in the amount of $176,511 was provided by the Air Force Research Laboratory, a defense agency, under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The funding supports "BASIC RESEARCH FOR AOARD PROPOSAL 24IOA025 'THE RESPONSE OF A SELF-SIMILAR ADVERSE PRESSURE GRADIENT TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER AT THE VERGE OF SEPARATI'", with a performance period from Aug 1, 2024 to Jul 31, 2027. The awardee, Monash University in Australia,...
This $150,000 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) supports research by the University of Southern California (USC) on fast modeling and inverse design of radio-frequency and nanophotonic devices using high-order integral equation methods. The award, effective from December 15, 2024 to December 14, 2027, aims to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force by advancing...