The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory has awarded a $679,741.00 Project Grant to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant, with a performance period from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2024, is for the project "ENHANCING 5G SECURITY VIA ANALYSIS OF RF HARDWARE CHARACTERISTICS AND SPECTRAL BEHAVIOR." This research initiative aims to maintain technological superiority in scientific...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $574,000 Project Grant to the University of Connecticut under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to develop a high-performance computational platform for multi-physics modeling of advanced propulsion and energy systems from April 2022 to April 2024. The grant funding will support the University of Connecticut in establishing computational capabilities to model complex physical interactions...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $112,951 Project Grant to the University of Puerto Rico under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant supports research on coherent structure assessment in high-speed crossflow jets. Specifically, the University of Puerto Rico will conduct numerical simulations and data analysis to complete two test cases by the end of year one involving turbulence precursor simulations for crossflow...
This federal Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory, under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), provides $149,201.00 in funding to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) to conduct research on "MEASURING AND ENHANCING RESILIENCE IN DYNAMIC HYPERGRAPHS." The award period runs from June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2028, with the goal of maintaining technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force through fundamental...
This $250,000 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) supports research to advance the understanding of transformers, state space models, and diffusion models for dynamical systems. The research is being conducted by the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), a public polytechnic research university. The award has a performance period from Sep 1, 2024 to Sep 14, 2027. The...
The University of Colorado received a $421,960 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 supports the Space Weather Forecasting Testbed for Machine Learning Research and Education project. The Testbed will develop and apply machine learning techniques to improve space weather forecasting models and tools. It will also provide hands-on research and training...
The University of Hawaii was awarded a $100,000 Project Grant from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant is to support research and development of interlocking mechanical attachment systems, with a performance period from December 15, 2024 to December 14, 2027. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program funds fundamental and applied scientific research across diverse disciplines...
The University of Illinois received a $176,303 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 12-month award, issued on May 6, 2021 and concluding on May 5, 2022, will support the development of a high-voltage characterization system for research on next generation power electronics. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain Air Force technological...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $242,482 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The award, effective October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024, supports MIT's "ADVANCED MOLECULAR MEASUREMENTS FOR FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH ON RULES OF COMPOSITION IN SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY". This grant funds cutting-edge research to advance molecular measurement...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $558,055 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 fund research from September 2021 through May 2023 on passive control of non-canonical flows with anisotropic porous materials. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain U.S. technological superiority through scientific research...