The University of Utah received a $222,109 project grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to support research and development in the area of metallurgy and materials science from June 2021 through June 2023. The award is part of the Air Force's Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), which aims to maintain technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs through prevent technological surprise and creating it for...
The University of New Mexico received a $284,492 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). Through this award, the University will conduct basic and applied research in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs, with the goal of maintaining U.S. technological superiority and preventing technological surprise from...
This federal Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), provides $284,652.00 to the University of Utah to conduct research on "Deciphering Neural Representations of Sensory Information by Cracking the Neural Phase Code." The project aims to advance scientific understanding in areas critical to national defense capabilities, with a focus on understanding neural representations of sensory...
This $100,000 Project Grant was awarded on August 1, 2024 by the Office of Naval Research under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to the University of Utah. The funding will support FDTD (Finite-Difference Time-Domain) modeling research related to troposcatter, which involves the propagation of radio waves through the Earth's troposphere. The research aims to advance naval operations and scientific knowledge in areas such as materials science, electronics, and...
This federal Project Grant award of $112,185.00 was issued by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to the University of Chicago. The award will support a 3-year research project from September 30, 2024 to September 29, 2027 focused on "Studies of Dynamic Material Interfaces in Extreme Environments". The University of Chicago, a renowned private research institution, will leverage its expertise in materials science,...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded a $150,000 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to Utah State University (USU) for the purpose of "EXPANDING AN AEROSPACE RESEARCH SCHOLARS PROGRAM TO BROADEN PARTICIPATION OF UNDERREPRESENTED GROUPS IN ENGINEERING." The grant, which runs from September 1, 2024 to April 4, 2025, will support USU's efforts to expand its aerospace research scholars program to increase participation from...
The University of New Mexico was awarded a $232,320 Project Grant by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant supports "NANOSCOPIC INFRARED IMAGING AND SPECTROSCOPY OF MATERIALS AND PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROCESSES" research to be conducted from August 2, 2023 to July 31, 2024. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain technological superiority in scientific...
The University of Utah was awarded a $159,999 Project Grant from the Department of Defense (DoD) Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) with a period of performance from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027. This federal grant award, titled "NEW START," will support foundational and applied research efforts across diverse scientific and technical domains critical to national security, such as quantum computing, artificial intelligence, materials science, robotics, and defense...
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...
This $203,084 federal Project Grant award was provided by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to the University of California, Davis. The grant supports fundamental and applied research on "LIGHT ELEMENT ANALYSIS FOR ULTRA-HIGH TEMPERATURE CERAMIC THERMOCHEMISTRY," with the goal of maintaining technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force. The research will be conducted at UC Davis from June 1, 2025 to...