The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant, which runs from December 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025, supports the "The U.S.-Africa Frontiers Program: Catalyzing Collaborations in Science, Engineering and Medicine." Through this funding, NAS will leverage its extensive network of subject matter experts to convene workshops, conduct in-depth...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $175,000 Project Grant to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant will support the "Third U.S.-Africa Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Program" from December 10, 2024 to February 28, 2025. NAS, a non-profit organization chartered by Congress, will leverage its network of scientific experts to provide research, analysis, and technical support...
The US Department of the Navy, through its Office of Naval Research, awarded a $197,089.20 Project Grant to the African Academy of Sciences to support the US Africa Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Symposium. The grant was awarded on February 18, 2022 under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300), with a completion date of December 21, 2022. The funding will support the Symposium, which aims to stimulate basic and applied research and technology with...
The Department of the Air Force awarded a $100,000 project grant to Universitat Bern in Switzerland under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant will fund research and development in the scientific area of astronautics from September 15, 2022 through September 14, 2025. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs and prevent technological surprise to the United...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $250,000 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to Cornell University. The grant funds research to develop new diagnostics for exploring extreme conditions, including laser propagation through plasmas and power flow at electrodes. This work aims to maintain technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs and prevent technological surprise. The research will be conducted at...
The Department of the Air Force awarded a $120,000 Project Grant to Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan of Sweden under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The two-year award, made on June 1, 2023 and concluding on May 31, 2025, will support research and development in the area of chemical science and engineering. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain U.S. technological superiority through scientific research relevant to Air Force needs. This award...
The U.S. Department of the Air Force awarded a $147,312 Project Grant to the Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant supports fundamental and applied scientific research on "Gaseous Spinning Reactive Waves in Coaxial Geometry" with the aim of maintaining technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force. The research, which will be conducted over a 3-year period from June...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded Cornell University a $826,225 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to extend the power of artificial intelligence (AI) for scientific discovery. The funding will support fundamental research across a range of disciplines relevant to Air Force needs, including engineering, physics, chemistry, materials science, and computer science. Cornell University has extensive experience conducting contracted research...
The University of New South Wales received a $147,923 project grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to conduct basic research under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The proposed research aims to investigate whether mechanically activated ion channels enable cellular sensing of microgravity. The two-year award period began on July 16, 2021 and will support research through July 15, 2023. The Defense Research Sciences...
This $150,000 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) supports research by the University of Southern California (USC) on fast modeling and inverse design of radio-frequency and nanophotonic devices using high-order integral equation methods. The award, effective from December 15, 2024 to December 14, 2027, aims to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force by advancing...