The University of California, San Diego received a $303,083 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 support research and development in the area of physics from March 2021 through March 2023. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain Air Force technological superiority through scientific research relevant to its needs. This award will...
This federal Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory, under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), is providing $304,691 to the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) to conduct "Multiscale Astrodynamical Analysis for Improved XGEO Cislunar SDA" research. The award, made on September 15, 2024, supports fundamental and applied scientific research aimed at maintaining technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space...
The University of California, San Diego received a $135,000 project grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory through its Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant funded research from September 30, 2021 to September 29, 2022 on the dynamics of collective phase in molecular vibrational polaritons. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain U.S. technological superiority through scientific research...
This $218,601 Project Grant was awarded on February 28, 2025 by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to conduct research on topological materials discovery. The funding will support fundamental and applied scientific research across disciplines such as quantum computing, materials science, and advanced electronics, with the goal of maintaining technological superiority for the...
The University of California Santa Cruz received a $492,827 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 support research into model-based data-driven learning methods for optimal feedback from May 2021 through April 2024. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs and...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $182,000 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to support the development of the CEZAR Linear Transformer Driver for expanded experimental capabilities from March 1, 2022 through August 31, 2023. The grant funding will allow UC San Diego to develop the CEZAR Linear Transformer Driver, which will provide enhanced experimental...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $201,023 Project Grant to the University of California, Berkeley under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) on March 11, 2024. The funding supports research on the autonomous navigation of drones and robots in indoor and outdoor cluttered environments. The work aims to develop new capabilities and prevent technological surprise in areas relevant to Air Force needs, such as computer science, aerospace systems, and related...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $619,648 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to The Regents of the University of Colorado (CU) to conduct research on space situational awareness in cislunar space. The award, effective November 1, 2024 through October 31, 2027, will fund CU's research in areas such as track association, relative motion analysis, and analytic orbit theory for objects in the Earth-Moon...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $388,390 Project Grant to the University of California Irvine under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant funds the development of a Multimodal High-Speed Atomic Force Microscope System to support research activities under the program. The Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain Air Force technological superiority through scientific research relevant to its needs. The...
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...