Project Grant FA9550261B092
- Federal Grant Award Summary Florida Institute of Technology Inc. received a $263,039 Project Grant from the U.S. Air Force (USAF DFAS) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), awarded April 1, 2026, with a completion date of March 31, 2030. The project, titled "Examination of Omnidirectional Trust and Distrust in Heterogeneous Human-Agent Teams," represents fundamental and applied research designed to advance Department of the Air Force capabilities in...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Florida's Division of Sponsored Research received a $700,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Air Force (USAF) Defense Finance and Accounting Services under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) for the project "CODAC: Designing Integrated, Generic, and Interoperable Compositional Analyses of Modern Systems." Awarded on May 1, 2026, with a completion date of April 30, 2031, this five-year initiative supports fundamental...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Florida's Division of Sponsored Research received a $150,000 project grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) on December 15, 2025. The award supports a three-year research initiative through December 14, 2028, focused on developing reprogrammable physical reservoir computers. This project aligns with the Defense Research Sciences Program's mission to maintain...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Clemson University's Division of Research received a $268,317 Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) on May 15, 2026, with completion scheduled for May 14, 2029. The project, titled "An Offensive and Defensive Strategy to Human-AI Teaming: Addressing the Impacts of Failure and Adversarial Influence to Bolster Human-AI Team Resilience," will be conducted at the...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Michigan, through its Office of Research and Sponsored Projects, received a $178,000 Project Grant from the Air Force under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) effective September 30, 2025, with a completion date of September 29, 2028. The project, titled "Effective Human-Machine Teaming with Multimodal Hazy Oracle Models," supports fundamental and applied scientific research designed to enhance Department of the...
- The University of Florida (UF) Division of Sponsored Research received a $190,678 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant supports the development of "ENHANCED CAPABILITIES AND COLLABORATIVE INTEGRATION FOR A VALIDATION AND VERIFICATION INSTRUMENT FOR AUTONOMOUS MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS IN OUTDOOR CONTESTED ENVIRONMENTS." This research aims to maintain technological superiority in areas relevant to...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Clemson University's Division of Research received a $127,027 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) on July 15, 2025, with a completion date of July 14, 2028. The award funds research titled "Leveraging Autonomous and Human Teammates to Manage Conflict in Human-Autonomy Teams, Ensuring Trust, Team Cohesion, and Resilience," to be conducted at the university's location in South...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Maryland, College Park received a $150,000 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) awarded on September 1, 2025, with a completion date of August 31, 2028. The award supports research on "Principled Risk-Aware Human-Machine Interaction and Learning in Dynamic Environments: Trust, Coordination, and Robustness," which falls within the Young Investigator Program...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Florida's Division of Sponsored Research received a $281,589 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028. This research initiative focuses on developing model-agnostic strategies to align artificial intelligence (AI) systems with real-world operational goals in predictive...
- 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,...
The University of Florida's Division of Sponsored Research received a $472,427 project grant from the U.S. Air Force (USAF DFAS) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), awarded May 1, 2026, with a completion date of April 30, 2029. This research initiative, titled "Human-AI Metacognitive Misalignment: A Generalizable Source of Human-AI Mistrust," addresses fundamental scientific challenges in human-artificial intelligence interaction and trustworthiness. The research is designed to advance Department of the Air Force mission capabilities by investigating the cognitive mechanisms underlying user skepticism of AI systems, with potential applications across defense and civilian contexts requiring human-AI collaboration and reliance. Under this competitive, peer-reviewed award administered in accordance with federal grants regulations, the University of Florida will conduct three years of research aimed at identifying and characterizing the sources of human distrust in AI systems stemming from misalignment in metacognitive processes. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program supports such fundamental and applied research across scientific and engineering domains to maintain technological superiority, prevent technological surprise, and build a strong research infrastructure through partnerships with accredited educational institutions and research organizations.Federal Project Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $472.4k | 4/16/26 |