The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to develop dynamical cartography for cislunar catalog maintenance and characterization from May 2021 to June 2023. The grant supports research to maintain technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs through preventing technological surprise and creating...
The University of California, San Diego received a $303,083 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 will support research and development in the area of physics from March 2021 through March 2023. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain Air Force technological superiority through scientific research relevant to its needs. This award will...
This Project Grant award, totaling $619,648, was provided by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant supports research to enhance space situational awareness in cislunar space, which is the region between the Earth and the Moon. Key focus areas include track association, relative motion analysis, and development of analytic orbit theory for lunar operations. The primary awardee is the University of Colorado, which will...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $118,990 Project Grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant, effective July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026, supports "Two-Layered Reduced Order Modeling for Multiscale Kinetic Transport Problems in Rarefied Gas Dynamics and Plasma Physics" research. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program funds fundamental and applied...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $149,949 project grant to the University of Colorado under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to conduct research on identifying spacecraft transport pathways in cislunar space. The project, titled "(YIP) DATA-DRIVEN IDENTIFICATION OF SPACECRAFT TRANSPORT PATHWAYS IN CISLUNAR SPACE", is scheduled to run from July 15, 2024 to July 14, 2027. As a prominent research university, the University of Colorado has a...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $342,572 Project Grant to the University of California, Irvine (UCI) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant, awarded on November 8, 2024, supports research to develop advanced computational models and simulations for rocket engine design, focusing on large-eddy simulations with improved modeling of multi-injectors and flamelets. This research aims to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air...
This federal Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), provides $218,601.00 to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) for a research project titled "TOPOLOGICAL MATERIAL DISCOVERY". The award has a period of performance from February 28, 2025 to February 27, 2028. The grant funds advanced research and scientific exploration in topological materials, which are a class of materials...
The Department of the Air Force awarded a $198,322 Project Grant to the University of California, Los Angeles under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) on July 16, 2021 for completion by July 15, 2023. The grant funding will support basic research to improve global magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the interaction of the solar wind with Earth's magnetosphere. Dr. Mostafa El-Alaoui of the Catholic University of America will receive a sub-award to conduct global MHD...
The University of California, San Diego received a $135,000 project grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory through its Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant funded research from September 30, 2021 to September 29, 2022 on the dynamics of collective phase in molecular vibrational polaritons. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain U.S. technological superiority through scientific research...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $787,406 Project Grant to the University of California, Berkeley under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant supports fundamental and applied research aimed at maintaining technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force, with a specific focus on "Next Experimental Steps Towards Quantum Information Processing with Trapped Electrons." The research will be...