Project Grant FA9550261B034
- Federal Grant Award Summary Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) received a $200,000 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), effective September 1, 2025 through August 30, 2030. This award supports research into the thermomechanical behavior of architected polymer-bonded simulants, a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) designation project. The research will be...
- This Project Grant from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory, under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), provides $135,085 to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (doing business as Tees) for the period of March 1, 2022 through February 28, 2024. The funding supports the acquisition of an ultrahigh-resolution microscope Raman and synchronous fluorescence system to conduct materials characterization and analysis. As the...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station received a $141,603 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) effective September 1, 2025, with a completion date of August 31, 2028. The award funds research on flexible thermodynamic memristors designed for power-efficient artificial neurons. This research aligns with the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program's objectives to maintain...
- Summary of Federal Grant Award Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station received a Project Grant award of $149,201 from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) for the project titled "Measuring and Enhancing Resilience in Dynamic Hypergraphs." The award was issued on June 1, 2025, with a performance period extending through May 31, 2028. This research initiative is being conducted at the awardee's facilities in Texas and...
- The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $199,600 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to the Illinois Institute of Technology for the period of July 15, 2021 to July 14, 2022. The grant funding will support research to understand the role of intragranular strain during deformation and processing of high-temperature structural metals. Specifically, the DURIP funding will be used to purchase an integrated Oxford...
- The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station was awarded a $450,792 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 grant period runs from July 1, 2021 through December 31, 2022. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain U.S. technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) awarded $100,000 to Instituto De Fisica De SAO Carlos under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) on September 30, 2025, for a three-year research project extending through September 29, 2028. The award funds a collaborative international science initiative investigating second-order nonlinear optical properties in lead-free double perovskite materials (CsAgInBiCl), with research performance...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) received a $156,772 Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) on September 15, 2025, with completion targeted for September 14, 2028. The award supports research on redox mediation in hybrid electrodes for low-temperature batteries, addressing fundamental and applied scientific research priorities relevant to Department of...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $228,222 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Austin under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) for research titled "Hygroscopic Meets Xerophilic: New Methods to Enable Extreme Environmental Bioproduction." The award was obligated on September 30, 2025, with a performance period extending through September 29, 2026. This research initiative supports the Air Force's broader mission to...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Florida Institute of Technology Inc. received a $212,289 Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) on May 15, 2026, with a completion date of May 14, 2029. The award funds research titled "Data-Assimilation and Machine-Learning Enhanced Aerothermoelastic Modeling in Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Flows," as detailed in the grantee's technical proposal dated December 6, 2024,...
Federal Grant Award Summary The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded $261,132 to Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) for the project "High-Resolution Multi-Modal Instrumentation for In-Situ Real Time Optical Morphology-Mechanical Behavior Analysis of Polymer Systems" (I-M2AP). The award, effective May 1, 2026 through April 30, 2027, supports the development and deployment of advanced instrumentation capable of simultaneously analyzing optical properties and mechanical behavior of polymer materials in real-time laboratory conditions. This research addresses the Air Force's strategic objective to maintain technological superiority in materials science and prevent technological surprise by enhancing the Department of the Air Force's understanding of polymer system performance characteristics critical to aerospace and defense applications. The project represents a Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) initiative, which funds acquisition of research equipment and instrumentation at academic and research institutions. TEES, as a state government research institution within the Texas A&M University System, will leverage its established capabilities in materials characterization and advanced technology development to design and implement the multi-modal measurement platform. The instrument's capability to provide concurrent optical and mechanical analysis represents a significant advancement in materials testing methodology, enabling researchers to correlate microstructural changes with mechanical response during real-time observation—a capability with broad applications across aerospace materials development and polymer engineering research.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $261.1k | 4/21/26 |