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...
This $250,097 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 Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). The award, with a performance period from September 30, 2024 to September 29, 2027, will fund research on attosecond XUV probing of carrier and spin dynamics in materials and at interfaces. UC Berkeley, a leading...
This federal Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) provides $385,000.00 in funding from October 15, 2024 to October 14, 2027. The award supports foundational research and practical applications in two key areas: (1) the equilibration of isolated quantum systems, and (2) the chemical and architectural control of interfacial interactions in block copolymers. The award was granted to the University of...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $457,041 Project Grant to The Trustees of Princeton University under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant, titled "EQUIPMENT FOR ENTERING THE INTERACTING QUANTUM MANY-BODY REGIME WITH ARRAYS OF LASER-COOLED MOLECULES", will support the acquisition of specialized equipment to enable research into quantum many-body systems using laser-cooled molecules. The project aims to...
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 $255,000.00 in funding to Purdue University for "Quantum Correlated Interferometry for Space Domain Awareness in the Extreme Sub-Wavelength Limit" research. The award, with a period of performance from September 30, 2024 to September 29, 2028, supports fundamental and applied scientific research aimed...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $386,694 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. The grant, effective March 1, 2025 through February 28, 2027, will fund the development of a cryogen-free quantum nano-optical microscope. This research aims to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force by advancing scientific...
This $200,000 Project Grant awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) will support Harvard University's research towards developing a new quantum platform based on ultracold molecules. The research aims to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force by preventing technological surprise and advancing scientific understanding in areas critical to national...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $1,156,883 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The grant provides funding from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026 to conduct a direct test of the quantum statistics theorem using well-separated indistinguishable particles. UC Berkeley, as the prime awardee, will perform...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $200,000.00, was provided by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado. The award supports the university's research project "An Integrated Programmable Source of Photonic Graph States" over a performance period from September 10, 2024 to September 9, 2027. This fundamental research project...
This Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) provides $327,788 to The Regents of the University of Colorado (CU) to advance quantum simulation and sensing capabilities using alkaline earth atoms. The 5-year grant, awarded on September 20, 2024, supports fundamental and applied research to prevent technological surprise and create strategic advantages for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force. The...