This federal Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) provides $608,910 to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to conduct research towards spatially-selective lensing for imaging and vision applications. The award, which runs from September 30, 2024 to September 29, 2027, will support CMU's research efforts to advance technologies in this domain. As a leading research institution, CMU has demonstrated...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded $322,026 to Carnegie Mellon University under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) Project Grant to support the "LABORATORY DIFFRACTION CONTRAST TOMOGRAPHY FOR 3D MICROSTRUCTURE CHARACTERIZATION" effort from February 15, 2022 to February 14, 2023. The grant aims to fund the development of laboratory diffraction contrast tomography for 3D microstructure characterization, in line with the...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $148,819 Project Grant to Carnegie Mellon University under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant supports research on "Secure and Efficient Federated Learning in the Foundation Model Era" with a performance period from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2028. Carnegie Mellon University, a prestigious private research university, will leverage its expertise in cutting-edge...
This federal Project Grant award of $130,000.00 was provided by the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (DEVCOM) under the Basic Scientific Research Program (CFDA 12.431) to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). The funding supports fundamental research to develop a "Fundamental Understanding of the Frequency Side-Channel Attack Surface" over a 3-year period from June 2025 to June 2028. The research aims to generate innovative scientific discoveries and technological...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded $198,290 under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to Carnegie Mellon University from March 1, 2022 to February 28, 2023. The Project Grant funding will support Carnegie Mellon University's development of a scanning ion conductance microscopy-enabled atomic force microscope for research on peptide nucleic acid-based nanostructures at biotic and abiotic interfaces. The Air Force Defense Research...
The University of Pittsburgh received a $149,871 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to fund research on "Photonic In-Memory Accelerators for Low-Latency and Efficient Computing". The award, which runs from May 2024 to May 2027, supports innovative scientific investigations aimed at developing advanced computing technologies to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space...
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...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Army Research Development and Engineering Command under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) provides $120,000.00 in funding to Carnegie Mellon University from July 15, 2025 to July 14, 2028. The award supports the university's research on "Uncertainty-Aware Active Sensing with Self-Organizing Gaussian Mixture Models", which aims to advance fundamental knowledge in areas critical to national security, such as artificial...
Carnegie Mellon University was awarded a $445,180 project grant from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The three-year award will support research titled "COMMON SENSE FOR SUPERHUMAN PERCEPTION: FROM VIBRATION TO VISION TO VERBAL MULTISCALE MULTIMODAL INTELLIGENCE." The goal of this research is to develop multimodal artificial intelligence capabilities that integrate vibration, vision...
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...