The University of Illinois was awarded a $219,874 project grant from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory through the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant will fund the development of a Radiation Suite for Hypersonic Flows and Surface Detection from March 1, 2023 through February 29, 2024. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain U.S. technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $482,686 project grant from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to support research and development in the area of physics under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The two-year award, made on April 1, 2021 and set to be completed by March 31, 2023, will fund R&D projects in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs such as maintaining U.S. technological superiority and preventing...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $257,368 project grant from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to conduct research related to Experiment, Modeling, and Simulation of Advanced Materials - Plasma Interactions in the Space Environment. The grant was awarded under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) and will support research from December 1, 2021 to November 30, 2022. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain...
This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Air Force's Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) provides $150,000.00 to the University of Illinois to conduct research on "COMPACT SOLID STATE PULSED POWER CONVERSION" over a period of 3 years, from July 15, 2025 to July 14, 2028. The grant supports fundamental and applied scientific research aimed at maintaining technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force, with a focus on areas such as quantum computing,...
The University of Illinois received a $176,303 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). The 12-month award, issued on May 6, 2021 and concluding on May 5, 2022, will support the development of a high-voltage characterization system for research on next generation power electronics. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain Air Force technological...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $482,741 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 grant will support the development of a burst-mode wavelength-agile laser system for hypersonic research from August 15, 2021 to August 14, 2022. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs...
This federal Project Grant award of $250,815.00, provided by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), supports research on bioinspired multispectral and polarization sensitive cameras. The award was made on July 1, 2025 to the University of Illinois, a prominent public research university with extensive experience in federal contracting and grant work across multiple scientific and technological domains. The research aims to...
The University of Illinois, through a USD 315,227 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), will conduct near-wall, three-dimensional fluid measurements to advance the characterization of fluid-structure interactions. The research aims to maintain technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs. The grant award commenced on September 15, 2023 and is...
This federal Project Grant award of $150,000.00 from the U.S. Air Force under the Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) supports research by the University of Illinois to develop multi-junction buried dielectric photonic crystal surface emitting laser diodes and arrays. The research aims to maintain technological superiority and prevent technological surprise for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force. The award period runs from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028. The University of...
This federal Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory, under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), provides $387,308 to the University of Illinois for research on bio-inspired multispectral-polarization imaging devices with perovskite nanocrystals for UV and visible spectral sensing. The award period runs from April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2026. The University of Illinois, a public land-grant research university, will conduct this scientific research...