The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $317,481 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to The University of Iowa. The grant supports direct numerical simulations of shock-to-detonation transition (SDT) in heterogeneous energetic materials, with a performance period from September 30, 2024 to March 31, 2029. As a prominent public research university, The University of Iowa will leverage its extensive academic expertise and research capabilities...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $100,457 Project Grant to Iowa State University of Science and Technology under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant, titled "Decoupling the Role of Gravity in Processing Soft Matter Systems", will fund fundamental and applied research aimed at maintaining technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force. The research, which will run from September 30, 2024...
The University of Iowa received a $598,563 Project Grant from the Department of Defense Washington Headquarters Service to support basic scientific research related to or with potential to improve Army programs under the Basic Scientific Research federal grant program (CFDA 12.431). Specifically, the grant will fund research and development of a Constellation Ready Magnetometer from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The University of Iowa will conduct the research at its location in Iowa City,...
The University of Iowa received a $510,268 Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to support research titled "Intelligent Tactical Autopilot to Advance Basic Understanding of Human Reliance and Teaming in Mixed Human-Machine Teams." The grant period runs from July 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022. The funding supports research under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), which aims to maintain Air Force...
This Project Grant award from the Department of Defense (CFDA 12.431 - Basic Scientific Research) provides $595,374 to The University of Iowa to conduct research focused on "ROBUST GENERATION AND TRANSFER OF MULTIPHOTON STATES USING REDUCED SYMMETRY QUANTUM PHOTONICS". The research seeks to advance fundamental knowledge and develop defense-relevant capabilities in the field of quantum photonics, with potential applications in areas such as computing and information technology. The...
The Iowa State University of Science and Technology (ISU) was awarded a $100,000 Project Grant from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to support work under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The two-year award will fund ISU's development of low-latency authentication techniques for navigation messages from June 2021 through June 2023. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain U.S. technological superiority...
The Iowa State University of Science and Technology (ISU) received a $313,971 Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to conduct high performance computations on ionic liquids, deep eutectic propellants, and propellant degradation under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant supports research from February 1, 2023 to January 31, 2024 to maintain Air Force technological superiority in scientific areas relevant...
The University of Oklahoma was awarded a $148,254 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant, with a performance period from November 1, 2024 to October 31, 2027, supports the university's research on "Harnessing Quantum Many-Body Phenomena with Long-Range Interacting AMO Platforms." This fundamental and applied scientific research aims to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota totaling $250,000. The grant, awarded on September 30, 2024, supports an assessment of quantum computing to improve or bypass density functional theory. The University of Minnesota will serve as the prime awardee on this 3-year project, with the Regents of the University of Michigan receiving...
The University of Chicago received a $568,770 Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory dated February 1, 2023 with a completion date of January 31, 2024. The award is provided through the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to support the "IQCAAP - INDIVIDUAL QUBIT CONTROL FOR ATOM ARRAY PROCESSORS" project. The grant will fund research at the University of Chicago to develop techniques for individual qubit...