Project Grant FA87502111010
- The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) was awarded a $120,000 Project Grant by the U.S. Army Research Office under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The 3-year grant, effective January 21, 2025, supports RPI's research on "Sample-Efficient Image Classification and Object Detection with Provable Guarantees." This fundamental research aims to advance scientific knowledge and technological capabilities in areas critical to national security, such as artificial...
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute received a $226,792 project grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to develop hardware enabling powerful robotic manipulation through visual question-answering for advanced micro-environments. Funded under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), this two-year award running from May 2021 through April 2023 will support Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's work to maintain Air Force technological...
- This federal Project Grant award of $155,000.00 was provided by the Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR) under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300). The grant supports the "GENAI ENHANCED TRANSFORMATION" project led by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) to develop a "LOW-POWER, COMPACT CHIP SCALE PHOTONIC DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER FOR PHOTONIC COMPUTING". This research aims to advance scientific understanding and...
- The federal Project Grant award of $162,500.00 was provided by the Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR) under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) for the "CAVITY MOIRE QUANTUM MATERIALS" project. The award, which commenced on March 13, 2025 and is scheduled for completion by March 31, 2028, supports fundamental and applied research in scientific and technological domains critical to naval...
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) was awarded a $300,000 project grant from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program. The grant period is from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2024. Under this award, RPI will conduct research on "LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS WITH SPIN-RESOLVED AND TWISTED INFRARED PHOTONS." The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain Air Force technological superiority in...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $450,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) to research and develop switchable persistent spin helix devices. The goal is to overcome key challenges in spintronic devices, which use electron spin rather than charge to carry information, by leveraging materials with strong spin-orbit coupling and electric-field tunable persistent...
- The Rochester Institute of Technology was awarded a $748,955 project grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to support research and development activities under the Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910). The grant will fund a two-year project from September 2021 to August 2023 to conduct material-device-circuit co-design of reliable and logic-compatible HfO2 based ferroelectric FETs. The Research and Technology Development program aims to stimulate basic,...
- The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $182,226 Project Grant to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) on September 15, 2025 under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant, titled "RECONFIGURABLE CONSTELLATIONS FOR ADAPTIVE TRACKING IN CISLUNAR SPACE", supports RPI's research to develop advanced technologies for reconfigurable satellite constellations that can adaptively track targets in cislunar space. As a prominent private research...
- The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $147,915 Project Grant to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) on June 15, 2025. The grant, titled "ASSURED RECOVERY: DESIGN AND ASSURANCE OF AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS WITH SAFE RECOVERY CAPABILITIES," will support RPI's research to develop advanced technologies for autonomous systems with safe recovery capabilities over a 3-year period until June 14, 2028. As a leading...
- The U.S. Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR) has awarded a $1,167,681 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300). The 5-year grant, with a performance period from February 1, 2025 to January 31, 2030, will support MIT's research project titled "An Embodied Neuroscience for Cognition and Emotion." The research aims to advance scientific understanding and develop technologies...
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute received a $100,000 project grant award from the Department of Defense Washington Headquarters Service under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program. The grant will support Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's "Magnetic Nanoelectronics for Brain-Inspired Computing" project from June 2021 through June 2022. The project aims to advance circuit models and full system architecture simulations for brain-inspired computing through magnetic nanoelectronics research with the goal of improving naval operations capabilities. The funding will allow Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to conduct applied scientific research with potential for enhancing naval technologies and training future researchers in this area over the one-year period of performance defined in the award.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $0 | 5/2/22 | ||
| Not listed | $25.0k | 9/20/21 | ||
| Not listed | $75.0k | 6/3/21 |