The University of Washington was awarded a $101,520 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to conduct research on "Nonlinear Phenomena in Nonequilibrium Molecular Plasma Flows". This three-year grant, running from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2027, supports fundamental and applied scientific research aimed at maintaining technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force. The research...
The University of Washington was awarded a $259,289 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to develop a "TESTBED FOR LARGE-SCALE NON-VOLATILE PROGRAMMABLE PHOTONICS". The award period runs from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program funds fundamental and applied research to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force, with a...
This federal Project Grant award of $396,310.00 was provided by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to the University of Washington. The award will support the "HYDRAAI: LLM AND GENAI COMPUTE PLATFORM TO SUPPORT AFOSR MULTI-SCALE HYDRA" project from January 15, 2025 to January 14, 2026. The University of Washington, a prominent public research institution, will leverage its extensive capabilities in advanced scientific...
This federal Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), provides $284,652.00 to the University of Utah to conduct research on "Deciphering Neural Representations of Sensory Information by Cracking the Neural Phase Code." The project aims to advance scientific understanding in areas critical to national defense capabilities, with a focus on understanding neural representations of sensory...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $375,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant, awarded on May 1, 2025, supports fundamental and applied scientific research to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force. Specifically, the funding enables research on future neuromorphic computing, quantum science, and nanoscale electron optics. As a comprehensive...
This $150,000 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) supports research by the University of Southern California (USC) on fast modeling and inverse design of radio-frequency and nanophotonic devices using high-order integral equation methods. The award, effective from December 15, 2024 to December 14, 2027, aims to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force by advancing...
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 three-year, $450,000 Project Grant from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory's Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) will fund research investigating single-neuron mechanisms of face coding in the human brain. West Virginia University Research Corporation will conduct a study to establish a general neural representation of faces and validate neural face models by investigating face representation and coding at the single-neuron level in...
This $919,959 Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) will fund the "COE CENTER OF NEUROMORPHIC COMPUTING UNDER EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS" research project. The grant aims to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force through fundamental and applied scientific research in areas critical to national defense, such as quantum computing, materials science, and artificial...
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...