The University of Southern California was awarded a $248,072 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 research and development in the area of physics from March 2021 through March 2022. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain U.S. technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs. It seeks to prevent...
The University of Southern California, Department of Contracts and Grants Division, received a $225,000.00 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 two-year grant, awarded on August 15, 2023, will fund research to develop "HIGH EMISSIVITY MATERIALS USING MULTILAYER OXIDES". USC has a track record of past federal grant and contract work in areas like aviation...
The University of Southern California received a $350,000 Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to develop advanced petascale numerical methods for solving and inversely designing massive computational physics problems. Funded under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), the award aims to maintain Air Force technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to its needs and prevent technological surprise by...
The University of Southern California was awarded a $198,808 Project Grant from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to support research titled "HOM INTERFEROMETRY OF PHOTONS IN NETWORKS OF ORDERED QUANTUM EMITTERS: MESATOP SINGLE QUANTUM DOT ARRAYS" under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). This funding will support the development of ordered arrays of quantum dots to enable interferometry of photons, maintaining Air Force...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $713,606 Project Grant to the University of Southern California (USC) through the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to establish a GPU cluster for research on distributed optimization and learning in massive-scale systems. The grant period runs from July 19, 2023 to July 18, 2024. As a leading private research university, USC has extensive experience conducting technical research and...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $150,000.00 and provided by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), supports the development of fast modeling and inverse design techniques for radio-frequency and nanophotonic devices using high-order integral equation methods. The research, conducted by the University of Southern California, aims to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force by advancing...
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...
This federal Project Grant award for $203,483 was issued by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to the University of Southern California (USC). The award will fund research to expand the frontiers of decision making under uncertainty from October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2027. USC, a leading private research university, will leverage its expertise across engineering, health sciences, computer science, and other domains to...
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), received a three-year, $360,295 Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to support research and development in the area of physics under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant will fund R&D activities at UCLA from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024 aimed at maintaining technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs. As the parent...
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...