Project Grant FA9550261B038
- Federal Grant Award Summary Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $200,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) awarded on August 1, 2025, with a performance period extending through July 31, 2030. The award funds fundamental and applied scientific research titled "Light-Driven Non-Equilibrium Colloidal Crystallization," conducted at MIT's location in Massachusetts. This research project supports the Air Force's...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded a $250,000 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) for research titled "The Coupling-Arm Qubit for Scalable, High-Fidelity Entangling Gates." The award, effective December 1, 2025, through November 30, 2028, supports fundamental and applied research in quantum information sciences designed to advance the...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $1.5 million Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on September 30, 2025, under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The award supports a five-year research initiative focused on data-driven and model-based foundations of control for soft robots, with research performance conducted at MIT's Cambridge,...
- The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $242,482 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The award, effective October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024, supports MIT's "ADVANCED MOLECULAR MEASUREMENTS FOR FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH ON RULES OF COMPOSITION IN SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY". This grant funds cutting-edge research to advance molecular measurement...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $150,000 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) for the Young Investigator Program (YIP) project titled "Deformation-Induced Chemical Mixing in Metallic Alloys." The award, effective August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2028, supports fundamental and applied research designed to maintain technological superiority for the U.S....
- Federal Grant Award Summary Massachusetts Institute of Technology received a $150,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Air Force Defense Advanced Fire and Space Administration (USAF DFAS) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), awarded June 1, 2026, with performance extending through May 31, 2029. The grant supports the Young Investigator Program (YIP) project titled "Quantum Computing - Harmonics Engineering for Noise-Resilient Superconducting Qubits...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $400,000 Project Grant award from the Research Development and Engineering Command (a Defense agency component) under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431), effective August 15, 2025, with completion scheduled for December 15, 2027. The award supports fundamental research into electrochemical mechanisms in thermochemical ammonia synthesis, conducted at MIT's Cambridge, Massachusetts facility. This...
- The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $495,000.00 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The purpose of the grant is to fund research on "The Fear of Missing Out on Information for Reduced Order Modeling: A Method for Healthier Data- and Model Selection" over a period of 3 years from December 1, 2023 to November 30, 2026. As a leading research...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded a $1.5 million Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Project Grant to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) on September 30, 2025, with a completion date of September 29, 2030. The award supports fundamental and applied research investigating cellular mechanics and process principles of three-dimensional (3D) secretion mechanisms...
- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was awarded a $317,300 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 will fund R&D projects at MIT from June 2021 through March 2023 aimed at maintaining technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences...
The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $700,000 Project Grant to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on June 5, 2026, under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). This five-year award, with a completion date of June 4, 2031, funds research titled "SCHEMA: Scalable Compositional Hierarchies for Evolvable Multi-Agent Architectures." The project will be performed at MIT's Massachusetts location and supports fundamental and applied scientific research aligned with the Department of the Air Force's mission to maintain technological superiority and prevent technological surprise in defense-related scientific domains. The research initiative focuses on developing scalable and compositional hierarchical frameworks for multi-agent systems architecture, representing advanced work in critical defense technology areas. As a peer-reviewed competitive award under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program, this project contributes to the Air Force's strategic objective of fostering innovation and building research infrastructure through partnerships with accredited educational institutions. MIT's extensive track record in defense-related research, quantum systems, artificial intelligence, and advanced engineering positions it to deliver research outcomes that enhance Department of the Air Force mission capabilities in emerging technology domains.Federal Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $700.0k | 6/2/26 |