This $126,940 federal Project Grant award was provided by the U.S. Department of Defense Research Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The funding will support the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA in acquiring an interfacial tensiometry system. This research equipment will enable the university to conduct fundamental and applied scientific research advancing national security priorities in areas such as materials...
The University of Massachusetts Lowell will conduct research and development in the area of physics under a $440,192 Project Grant from the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory. The grant is part of the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), which aims to maintain technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs and prevent technological surprise to adversaries. Through this three-year award beginning May 2021, the university will perform...
The University of Massachusetts Boston was awarded a $331,218 Project Grant from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to support research and development activities under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant will fund the development of chip-scale group-IV integrated photonics for single-photon detection and quantum metrology from July 2021 through July 2024. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain Air...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $185,000 Project Grant to the University of Massachusetts under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to conduct research on the "Equilibration of Isolated Quantum Systems: Foundational Aspects and Practical Implications." The three-year grant, with a performance period from October 15, 2024 to October 14, 2027, will fund fundamental and applied research to advance scientific understanding in areas critical to...
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth received a $600,000 Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to develop a multi-architecture hardware computing cluster. Funded under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), the cluster will support the implementation and development of robust and scalable numerical algorithms. The one-year award period runs from February 1, 2022 to January 31, 2023 and performance will take...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $8,000,000 Project Grant to the University of Maryland, College Park under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to conduct research on "DESIGN AND CONTROL OF ATOMIC DEFECTS IN GROUP II-OXIDE MATERIALS". The award period runs from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026. The university has sub-awarded portions of the work to North Carolina State University, Pennsylvania State University, and the Massachusetts...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was awarded a $355,605 project grant from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to develop a MULTIFUNCTIONAL SURVEYOR FOR QUANTUM MATERIALS AND DEVICES. The grant was awarded on February 15, 2022 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. MIT will utilize the funding to...
This $150,000 federal Project Grant was awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant will fund basic research by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on optical non-linearity and exciton studies in novel 2D Janus transition metal dichalcogenide and (moire) heterostructures. The research aims to prevent technological surprise and create strategic advantages for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force...
This $220,000 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) to The Johns Hopkins University on August 1, 2023. The grant will fund the development of an "Ultrasonic Atomization System for Fabricating Novel Alloyed Reactive Metal Powders and Related Materials" over the one-year performance period ending July 31, 2024. This research aims to advance materials science and...
This federal 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), provides $150,000.00 in funding to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for the performance period of September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027. The grant supports "BASIC RESEARCH FOR AOARD PROPOSAL 24IOA043 'QUANTUM GEOMETRY AND NONLINEAR HALL EFFECTS IN TOPOLOGICAL MATERIALS'." This funding will enable...