This $448,048 Project Grant was awarded on October 15, 2023 by the U.S. Air Force under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to the Dublin Institute For Advanced Studies in Ireland. The grant will fund research and development in the area of physics over a 3-year performance period from October 15, 2023 to October 14, 2026. The objective of the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program is to maintain technological superiority in areas relevant to Air Force needs,...
This $150,000 Project Grant awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) supports research by Trustees of Boston College, doing business as Boston College, to design and characterize multi-functional ferroelectric nanoelectronics for intelligent computing. The 3-year award, effective April 1, 2024, aims to advance scientific knowledge and develop new capabilities in areas relevant to Air Force needs. The research will be...
The federal Project Grant award of $180,000.00 was provided by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant supports research conducted by the Istituto DI Scienza, Tecnologia E Sostenibilita Per Lo Sviluppo DEI Materiali Ceramici (CNR-Issmc), a research institute in Faenza, Italy, over the period from October 15, 2024, to October 14, 2028. The research focuses on studying the multiscale neural network response of...
This federal Project Grant award, totaling $375,000.00, was provided by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The award supports fundamental and applied scientific research aimed at maintaining technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force, with a focus on enabling research in future neuromorphic computing, quantum science, and nanoscale electron optics. The award was granted to the University of California,...
The University of California, San Diego received a $308,511 Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to support imaging-based analyses of subcellular neuronal energy metabolism, network activity, and synaptic function from March 1, 2021 to February 28, 2022. This award was made under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), which supports research to maintain Air Force technological superiority and prevent technological...
This Project Grant award, valued at $112,185.00, was provided by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The award supports a research project titled "STUDIES OF DYNAMIC MATERIAL INTERFACES IN EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS - RENEWAL" at the University of Chicago, a renowned private research university. The funding will support fundamental and applied scientific research aimed at maintaining technological superiority for the...
This Project Grant award of $300,000.00 from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) supports fundamental research on "Short-Term Synaptic Plasticity in Oxide Phototransistors for Temporal Data Processing in Neuromorphic Computing" at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). The research aims to investigate novel materials and device architectures to enable temporal data processing capabilities for neuromorphic...
This Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) provides $366,091 to The Salk Institute for Biological Studies to support research on "DOWNLOADING THE MATRIX: COMPOSING, TRANSCRIBING AND CONDUCTING A NEURAL SYMPHONY". The award, effective May 1, 2024 through April 30, 2027, will enable the Institute to conduct advanced biological research to investigate the molecular basis of neural function,...
This $104,811 federal Project Grant award was provided by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The purpose of the grant is to conduct research on "Harvesting Preconditioning for Scalable High-Resolution Signal and Image Reconstruction". The award was made to Carnegie Mellon University, a leading private research institution, and has a performance period from January 15, 2025 to September 30, 2025. This grant...
This $1,059,053 Project Grant awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) provides funding to Emory University for the project "UNCOVERING POPULATION DYNAMICS IN SPINAL CIRCUITRY." The project will be conducted over a 3-year period from September 2023 to September 2026. The grant supports fundamental research to maintain technological superiority in areas relevant to Air Force needs and foster a strong research...