Project Grant FA95502210082
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Pittsburgh received a $550,000 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) for the project titled "Quantifying Stochasticity in Fracture." The award was obligated on September 15, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of September 14, 2028. This three-year research initiative will be conducted at the university's Pennsylvania location and is designed to...
- 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...
- The University of Pennsylvania received a $150,000 Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) on May 15, 2025. The grant, titled "QUANTUM COMPUTING: PARALLEL ADIABATIC CONTROL OF ELECTRON SPIN QUBITS (PACE)," supports fundamental and applied scientific research to maintain technological superiority for the United States Air Force and Space Force. The research aims to advance quantum computing...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Pennsylvania State University received a $370,700 project grant from the U.S. Air Force (USAF DFAS) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) for research titled "Experiments with 3D Cluster States." The award, effective April 30, 2026, through April 29, 2031, supports fundamental and applied scientific research designed to maintain technological superiority for the Department of the Air Force. The research will be...
- The University of California, Santa Barbara received a $315,422 project grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to develop a plug-and-play quantum photonic computing testbed. The grant was awarded under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to maintain technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs and prevent technological surprise. The testbed will allow the Air Force to evaluate quantum photonic...
- The University of Colorado was awarded a $287,702 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to conduct research on "Quantum Sensing and Simulations with Three-Dimensional Ion Crystals in a Penning Trap" over a 5-year period from February 15, 2025 to February 14, 2030. This grant supports fundamental and applied scientific research to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space...
- The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $271,051 Project Grant to New York University (NYU) on January 15, 2025 under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant supports fundamental and applied research aimed at maintaining technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force. Specifically, the funding will enable NYU to develop "Surrogate Models for Quantum Control and Optimization" over the 3-year award period ending on January 14,...
- The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded $198,290 under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to Carnegie Mellon University from March 1, 2022 to February 28, 2023. The Project Grant funding will support Carnegie Mellon University's development of a scanning ion conductance microscopy-enabled atomic force microscope for research on peptide nucleic acid-based nanostructures at biotic and abiotic interfaces. The Air Force Defense Research...
- This Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) provides $327,788 to The Regents of the University of Colorado (CU) to advance quantum simulation and sensing capabilities using alkaline earth atoms. The 5-year grant, awarded on September 20, 2024, supports fundamental and applied research to prevent technological surprise and create strategic advantages for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force. The...
- The University of Southern California received a $159,700 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) to conduct measurement of indistinguishability of single photons emitted from on-chip integrable highly spectrally uniform novel semiconductor quantum dots in spatially-ordered arrays. The grant period runs from June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2022. The Air Force Defense Research...
The University of Pittsburgh was awarded a $481,695 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 will support development of a cryogenic platform and controls for quantum state routers and reservoir computation from March 1, 2022 to February 29, 2024. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain Air Force technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to its needs by preventing technological surprise and creating it for adversaries through a strong research infrastructure. This award will advance those objectives by furthering quantum computing technologies with potential military applications.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $0 | 1/18/23 | ||
| Not listed | $481.7k | 1/24/22 |