The Trustees of Dartmouth College received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to support research titled "QUANTIFIABLE EXPECTABILITY AND MEASURABLE INTENTIONS: COMPUTATIONAL CALIBRATED TRUST IN HUMAN-AI JOINT ACTIVITY." The award period runs from November 15, 2021 to November 14, 2022. The research is funded by the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), which aims to maintain Air Force...
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...
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. 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 Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to conduct research titled "Investigating Human Trust in AI: A Case Study of Human-AI Collaboration on a Speech-Based Data Analytics Task." The award period runs from October 15, 2021 to April 14, 2023. The research will be conducted under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), which aims to...
This $471,540 federal Project Grant award was provided by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to Lehigh University. The grant supports fundamental and applied research on trust, rationality, and robust decision-making under competition in human-human and human-AI teams. Key activities include: Developing a theoretical framework to quantify bounded rationality and robust decision-making under competition and uncertainty, with...
The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, received a $375,213 Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory on May 1, 2021 to complete work by April 30, 2023. The grant funding supports magnetic imaging of two-dimensional quantum materials to maintain technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs. The University of California, Berkeley will conduct this...
This $141,234 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) will support Syracuse University's research into trust and mutual understanding in multi-agent cooperative game dynamics through the use of explainable reinforcement learning. The 3-year project, running from May 2024 through April 2027, aims to advance scientific knowledge and develop new capabilities in areas relevant to Air Force needs, such as...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $188,953 Project Grant to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant, effective September 18, 2023 through September 16, 2024, funds research to optimize neurosymbolic AI/ML models for latency, accuracy, and robustness on resource-constrained edge computing platforms. As the prime awardee, UCLA will leverage its research facilities,...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $1,156,883 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The grant provides funding from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026 to conduct a direct test of the quantum statistics theorem using well-separated indistinguishable particles. UC Berkeley, as the prime awardee, will perform...