The federal Project Grant award for $100,000.00, awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), is intended to support fundamental and applied research into using large language models as "world models" in visual environments. The research will be conducted by Seoul National University (SNU), a prominent private, non-profit South Korean educational institution with extensive experience in delivering...
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...
This Project Grant award, valued at $320,000.00, was issued by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The award funds research on "Mean Field Games with Diverse Behavioral Patterns, Informational Constraints, and Learning" to be conducted by the University of Illinois from June 1, 2024 to May 31, 2027. This research aims to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force by advancing scientific...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,500,000.00 from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) supports the "BRAIN (BELIEF RESONANCE AND AI NARRATIVES): UNDERSTANDING BELIEF NARRATIVE RESONANCE IN THE ERA OF GENERATIVE AI" research project at Indiana University. The grant, which runs from March 1, 2025 to February 29, 2028, will fund fundamental and applied research to maintain technological superiority for the U.S....
This $398,249 Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Department of Defense under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431), supports research to develop robust AI systems for national security applications. The prime recipient, the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), is collaborating with Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) on this multi-year research effort, which aims to enhance the resilience and compartmentalization of AI models to protect...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded Cornell University a $826,225 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to extend the power of artificial intelligence (AI) for scientific discovery. The funding will support fundamental research across a range of disciplines relevant to Air Force needs, including engineering, physics, chemistry, materials science, and computer science. Cornell University has extensive experience conducting contracted research...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $579,423 Project Grant titled "(MINERVA) CONFLICT RESILIENCE ACROSS SCALES: THEORY AND DATA TO EVALUATE SOCIETAL RESILIENCE TO WATER AND CLIMATE SHOCKS" under the Department of Defense's Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630). The grant, awarded on October 1, 2024 with a completion date of March 12, 2025, supports research to develop theory and data to evaluate societal resilience to...
This $141,234 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) will support Syracuse University's research into trust and mutual understanding in multi-agent cooperative game dynamics through the use of explainable reinforcement learning. The 3-year project, running from May 2024 through April 2027, aims to advance scientific knowledge and develop new capabilities in areas relevant to Air Force needs, such as...
The federal Project Grant award of $100,000.00 from the Air Force Research Laboratory, under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), will fund research on efficient safety guidance and fairness metrics for text-to-image generative models at Seoul National University in South Korea. The award, commencing on December 2, 2024 and concluding on December 1, 2025, aims to maintain technological superiority and prevent technological surprise in areas critical to national...
This federal Project Grant award from the Department of Defense's Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630) provides $507,813.00 to Old Dominion University for the "MINERVA: BEYOND THE CLOCK: UNDERSTANDING CROSS-CULTURAL TEMPORAL ORIENTATION OF MILITARY OFFICERS" research project. The project aims to study cross-cultural temporal orientation of military officers, with an expected completion date of March 12, 2025. As part of this award,...