The Department of the Army Research Development and Engineering Command awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) to the Weizmann Institute of Science located in Israel. The grant, awarded on September 30, 2024, will fund research on "Quantum Information Routing and Processing with Photonic Qubits and Single Atoms" through September 27, 2027. This high-risk, high-payoff basic research project aims to expand scientific knowledge and...
The Department of the Army Research Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) awarded a $112,500 Project Grant under the Basic Scientific Research Program (CFDA 12.431) to the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. The grant, awarded on July 1, 2025, supports research exploring "Decoherence with Long-Lived Superconducting Cavity Qubits" over a 3-year period ending on June 30, 2028. This research, conducted at the Weizmann Institute, aims to advance fundamental knowledge in quantum...
The U.S. Air Force awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant, awarded on March 15, 2025, with a completion date of March 14, 2027, will fund research on the "Electromechanical Behavior of Ionic Gels Beyond Linearity for Physical Intelligence." This research aims to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force by advancing scientific...
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (The) received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force on March 2, 2021 to support work under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant aims to fund research and development activities focused on maintaining U.S. technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs. Specifically, the grant will support the Hebrew University's work developing chip-scale integrated quantum...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $457,041 Project Grant to The Trustees of Princeton University under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant, titled "EQUIPMENT FOR ENTERING THE INTERACTING QUANTUM MANY-BODY REGIME WITH ARRAYS OF LASER-COOLED MOLECULES", will support the acquisition of specialized equipment to enable research into quantum many-body systems using laser-cooled molecules. The project aims to...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $386,694 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. The grant, effective March 1, 2025 through February 28, 2027, will fund the development of a cryogen-free quantum nano-optical microscope. This research aims to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force by advancing scientific...
This Project Grant award for $378,828.00 was provided by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant supports fundamental and applied scientific research aimed at maintaining technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force. Specifically, the award funds a project titled "Driven-Dissipative Quantum Systems Under a Microscope" to be conducted by the University of California, Berkeley. The research...
This federal Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) provides $513,250.00 to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to support research on "Realizing Super- and Subradiance in Atomic Tweezer Arrays". The research aims to maintain technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs, prevent technological surprise, and advance fundamental understanding in...
This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM), under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431), provides $203,192.94 to the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel to conduct research on "Autonomous Cell-Free Ribosome Biogenesis Reconstituted on a Photonic Chip". The research aims to advance fundamental scientific knowledge and technological capabilities in areas such as quantum...
This $200,000 Project Grant awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) will support Harvard University's research towards developing a new quantum platform based on ultracold molecules. The research aims to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force by preventing technological surprise and advancing scientific understanding in areas critical to national...