The University of Delaware received a $792,067 Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to establish a Photonic Integrated Circuit Co-Packaging and Integration Center (PIC)2. The award, effective September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2024, will enable the university to conduct research and development on photonic integrated circuits and their co-packaging and integration....
The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to The Trustees of Princeton University. The grant, titled "PECASE: PRECISION AND ULTRAFAST SPECTROSCOPY OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY UNDER ELECTRONIC STRONG COUPLING," runs from June 15, 2025, to June 14, 2030. This grant supports fundamental and applied scientific research to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force, with a focus...
This federal Project Grant award of $187,976.00 was provided by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant supports research by Duke University to characterize the chiro-optic and dynamical responses of bespoke semiconducting materials for spin transport and long-wavelength information transmission. The research aims to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force by advancing scientific...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to Boise State University under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2027, supports fundamental research to "UNDERSTAND LATERAL FIELD EMITTERS AS AN ELECTRON SOURCE IN MICROWAVE VACUUM ELECTRON DEVICES". This research aims to advance scientific understanding in areas critical to national defense...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $200,000.00, was provided by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado. The award supports the university's research project "An Integrated Programmable Source of Photonic Graph States" over a performance period from September 10, 2024 to September 9, 2027. This fundamental research project...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $150,000.00 and provided by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), supports the development of fast modeling and inverse design techniques for radio-frequency and nanophotonic devices using high-order integral equation methods. The research, conducted by the University of Southern California, aims to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force by advancing...
This Project Grant award of $326,100.00 was provided by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to the University of Florida. The funding supports research into "Computational Variation for Spacecraft Dynamics Processor", with the goal of maintaining technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force. The research, to be conducted from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2026, aims to advance scientific understanding...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to The Trustees of Princeton University on July 1, 2025 to conduct research on "CHEMICAL BONDING AS A DESIGN PRINCIPLE FOR NEW QUANTUM MATERIALS" under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). This fundamental and applied research aims to maintain technological superiority and prevent technological surprise for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force by advancing scientific understanding in areas...
The federal Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $119,843, was made by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant supports a research project titled "(STEM) IMPROVING UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION TO PREPARE THE QUANTUM-ENABLED WORKFORCE IN QUANTUM SENSING" at Georgetown University. The award period runs from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025, and the research aims to advance scientific understanding...
This $218,601 Project Grant was awarded on February 28, 2025 by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to conduct research on topological materials discovery. The funding will support fundamental and applied scientific research across disciplines such as quantum computing, materials science, and advanced electronics, with the goal of maintaining technological superiority for the...