The University of Texas at Austin was awarded a two-year, $241,960 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 into Magnetized High-Frequency Excited Plasmas for Rarefied Air Ionization in Air-Breathing Electric Propulsion. The University of Texas at Austin, as a sub-awardee of the University of Texas System, will conduct research to develop...
The University of Texas at Austin received a $195,750 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 period runs from March 1, 2023 through February 29, 2024. The grant will fund research titled "AERODYNAMIC LOAD ESTIMATION USING DISTRIBUTED SHAPE SENSING." This work aims to develop techniques to estimate aerodynamic loads on aircraft using distributed fiber...
This $975,000 Project Grant was awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) with a performance period from July 15, 2023 to July 14, 2026. The grant was awarded to the University of Texas at Austin, a major research institution that has extensive experience supporting federal agencies through contracts and grants. The purpose of this award is to support research and development towards...
This $807,340 Project Grant awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) supports research on "Uncertainty Propagation for Maneuvering Objects in Chaotic Systems" at the University of Texas at Austin. The 3-year award, which began on Sep 15, 2024, will fund advanced scientific research and technological innovations in areas critical to national defense capabilities, such as aerospace systems, materials science, and...
The U.S. Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $154,745.00 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Austin under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to develop mid-infrared broad-band wavelength tunable quantum cascaded lasers covering the 3-13 micron wavelength range. The award period is from July 15, 2023 to July 14, 2024. As a major research university, the University of Texas at Austin has extensive experience conducting...
The University of Texas at Austin received a $298,091 Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory dated April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2022. The award was provided under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to support the development of high throughput mechanical characterization materials. The grant program aims to maintain Air Force technological superiority in relevant scientific areas and prevent technological...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $249,469 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Austin under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant funds the "TESTBED FOR AUTONOMY IN CONTESTED ENVIRONMENTS" project, which will develop and operate an experimental platform to advance research on autonomous systems operating in complex and adversarial conditions. The work directly supports the goals of the Defense...
The University of Texas at Austin was awarded a $162,465.00 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to design anomalous Kerr nonlinearity for photonic signal processing and sensing. This 3-year award, running from April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2027, will leverage the university's expertise in materials science, aerospace engineering, and sensor technology to advance the state-of-the-art in monitoring 3D printed...
The University of Texas at San Antonio received a $252,884 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 funded the acquisition of high-speed cameras to support research utilizing high-speed imaging techniques in hypersonic, high-temperature, and supersonic flows. The Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain Air Force technological superiority through foundational...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $1,500,000.00 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) to develop an understanding of the information and limitations from signatures that can be extracted from non-resolved space objects using multi/hyperspectral and polarization remote sensing. This effort aims to develop information exploitation algorithms to infer, predict, and...