The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $188,953 Project Grant to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant, effective September 18, 2023 through September 16, 2024, funds research to optimize neurosymbolic AI/ML models for latency, accuracy, and robustness on resource-constrained edge computing platforms. As the prime awardee, UCLA will leverage its research facilities,...
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 U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $201,023 Project Grant to the University of California, Berkeley under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) on March 11, 2024. The funding supports research on the autonomous navigation of drones and robots in indoor and outdoor cluttered environments. The work aims to develop new capabilities and prevent technological surprise in areas relevant to Air Force needs, such as computer science, aerospace systems, and related...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $333,583 Project Grant to The Leland Stanford Junior University under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) for the project titled "LARGE ROBOTICS MODELS: PRE-TRAINING, DATA CURATION, AND ADAPTATION FOR GENERALIZABLE AND ROBUST AUTONOMY COLLABORATORS". The award, which runs from May 1, 2025 to April 30, 2026, supports fundamental and applied scientific research aimed at maintaining technological superiority for...
The University of California, Los Angeles received a $219,991 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) on March 15, 2022. The grant funding will support the fabrication of brain-inspired networks for multifunctional intelligent systems. Specifically, the university will develop artificial neural networks modeled after biological brain circuits to enable new capabilities for...
The University of California, Los Angeles received a $282,347 Project Grant award from the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory on August 1, 2021 to complete work by April 30, 2024. The grant was awarded under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to support the fabrication of brain-inspired networks for multifunctional intelligent systems. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain Air Force technological superiority and prevent...
This Project Grant award for $378,828.00 was provided by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant supports fundamental and applied scientific research aimed at maintaining technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force. Specifically, the award funds a project titled "Driven-Dissipative Quantum Systems Under a Microscope" to be conducted by the University of California, Berkeley. The research...
The University of California Santa Cruz received a $492,827 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 into model-based data-driven learning methods for optimal feedback from May 2021 through April 2024. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs and...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $101,626, was provided by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant supports research at Tamagawa University in Japan to develop large language model (LLM)-based game agents for competitive environments. The research aims to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force by advancing the state-of-the-art in AI and game theory. The award was...
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...