The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $156,472 Project Grant to Rutgers, The State University on May 1, 2025 under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant supports the development of a "Testbed for Autonomous Proximity and Rendezvous Operations (ASPRO) with General Space Objects" at Rutgers. The research aims to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force by advancing scientific understanding and capabilities...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $125,000 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to the University of Rhode Island. The grant, with a performance period from September 15, 2024 to September 14, 2027, will support research on a "Cumulant Generating Function Classifier for Radar" to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force. The university's expertise in areas such as engineering, oceanography, and...
This $457,041 Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) is funding equipment and instrumentation to enable The Trustees of Princeton University to explore the interacting quantum many-body regime using arrays of laser-cooled molecules. The research aims to maintain technological superiority and prevent technological surprise for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force. The award has a performance period from...
This federal Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) provides $250,000.00 in funding to the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) for research and development related to "UNDERSTANDING TRANSFORMERS, STATE SPACE MODELS AND DIFFUSION MODELS FOR DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS." The award period runs from Sep 1, 2024 to Sep 14, 2027. As a Hispanic-serving research university, NJIT will leverage its...
This Project Grant award of $649,971.00 from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) supports research at the University of Southern California (USC) to address complex optimization problems, complementarity constraints, and conditional stochastic programs, with improvements using progressive integer programming. The research aims to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force by preventing...
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...
This $131,358 Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) supports fundamental and applied research by the Regents of the University of Michigan to address optimization problems with complex functional constraints, including addressing hierarchy and risk. The research aims to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force by preventing technological surprise and creating strategic...
The Trustees of Princeton University, through its Office of Research and Project Administration, was awarded a $150,000 Project Grant from the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to conduct research on "Understanding Structured Terahertz Beams Containing Orbital Angular Momentum for Agile Aerial Sensing". The award, which began on April 15, 2024 and is scheduled for completion by April 14, 2027, supports Princeton's work to advance scientific knowledge and develop...
This federal Project Grant award, totaling $225,000.00, was provided by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The award, effective February 1, 2025, supports two research projects to be conducted by The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State): "SURROGATE MODELS FOR QUANTUM CONTROL AND OPTIMIZATION": This project aims to advance quantum control and optimization techniques through the development of surrogate...
This federal Project Grant award of $150,000.00 was provided by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to Cornell University. The funding supports a 3-year research project titled "Targeted Interventions and Higher-Order Interactions in Complex Networks" starting on May 1, 2024. The project aims to advance fundamental and applied scientific research to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space...