Project Grant FA23862511046

The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded a $492,100 cooperative agreement to the Florida Institute For Human & Machine Cognition Inc. from September 30, 2022 through March 29, 2024. The award will support research to develop technologies for breaching and accessing urban structures with humanoid robots under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630). This program aims to fund basic,...

The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Research and Engineering Command awarded a $250,000 Project Grant to Universidad Carlos III De Madrid (UC3M) to conduct basic scientific research on the effects of events on faultlines and adaptation in multi-team systems. This grant is funded under the DoD's Basic Scientific Research Program (CFDA 12.431), which supports high-risk, high-payoff fundamental research across scientific and technological domains relevant to national security. The award period...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $232,806 from the U.S. Department of Defense's Basic Scientific Research Program (CFDA 12.431) is funding research at the University of Tennessee to develop methods for preventing, identifying, and mitigating the impact of compromised AI teammates using shared situation awareness and mental model accuracy. The award, which began on September 12, 2025 and runs through September 11, 2028, supports fundamental research to expand scientific understanding in...

The University of New South Wales received a $223,350 project grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to support basic research activities under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) from February 1, 2022 through January 31, 2024. The grant funds alternative approaches to investigating stability and transition as proposed in the grantee's September 9, 2021 application titled "BASIC RESEARCH FOR AOARD PROPOSAL 21IOA136 'AN...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $304,580 Project Grant to Arizona State University under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant funded the TRUSTED DISTRIBUTED HUMAN-MACHINE TEAMING FOR SAFE AND EFFECTIVE SPACE-BASED MISSIONS project from February 1, 2021 through January 31, 2023. The project focused on developing technologies to maintain Air Force technological superiority and prevent technological surprise...

The U.S. Department of the Army's Research Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) awarded a $399,964 Cooperative Agreement to D-Prime LLC, a small disadvantaged business located in McLean, Virginia. The award is funded through the Department of Defense's Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) and focuses on "Transforming Command and Control: The Imperative for Adaptive Human-AI Systems." The project will run from June 2025 to May 2029, aiming to conduct advanced research...

The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded a $255,240 Project Grant to New York University under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The two-year award, made on February 1, 2022 and concluding on January 31, 2024, will support research demonstrating attacks and defenses on autonomous platforms driven by deep networks. The Basic Scientific Research program aims to fund basic research related to improving Army programs and...

This $585,650 Project Grant award from the Department of Defense's Basic Scientific Research Program (CFDA 12.431) supports fundamental research by Arizona State University (ASU) on constraint-compliant learning, reasoning, and decision making with multimodal data. The research, which began on September 25, 2025 and is scheduled for completion by September 24, 2028, aims to expand scientific knowledge and technological capabilities in areas critical to national security, such as quantum...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $230,000.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of Defense's Basic Scientific Research Program (CFDA 12.431) to Aspirationtech.org, located in San Francisco, CA. The award supports a research project titled "After the AI Bubble: Evaluating Biometric Information Privacy Protections and Identity Theft" from March 1, 2025 to February 28, 2026. The goal of the project is to pursue high-risk, high-payoff ideas in basic science to discover, innovate, and...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under the Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910) provides $500,000.00 in funding to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) to conduct research on "AD HOC AUTONOMOUS TEAMS: COLLABORATION WITHOUT PRE-COORDINATION (AD HOC TEAMWORK (AHT))". The research aims to develop transformative defense capabilities in this area over the performance period from November 8, 2024 to...