Project Grant FA9550261B097
- Northwestern University received a $141,375 project grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory dated March 15, 2021 through March 14, 2022. The funding supports research and development in the area of physics for equipment purchase under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs and prevent...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Northwestern University's Sponsored Research Division received a $351,117 Project Grant award from the U.S. Air Force (USAF DFAS) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) for the period of May 1, 2026 through April 30, 2027. The project, titled "Lasers and Spatial Light Modulators for Ultrafast Automatic Event Recognition Using Multiphoton Atomic Transitions," represents a Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP)...
- Northwestern University received a $250,000 project grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to support research titled "Engineering Bacterial Transcription Factors to Sense Human Performance Biomarkers." The period of performance for this award is from September 30, 2021 through March 31, 2023. The research is being conducted under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), which aims to maintain Air Force...
- This federal Project Grant award of $795,638.00 from the Air Force Research Laboratory was provided under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to support Northwestern University's research on symbolic supercomputing for artificial intelligence software collaborators. The award was made on April 15, 2025 with a targeted completion date of April 16, 2026. This grant is part of the Air Force's broader efforts to maintain technological superiority through fundamental and...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Northwestern University received a $150,000 project grant from the U.S. Air Force (USAF DFAS) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) for research titled "Operando Insights into the Mechanistic Significance of Vibrational Excited States in Plasmolytic Chemistry." The three-year award, effective April 1, 2026 through March 31, 2029, will be performed at Northwestern's Chicago, Illinois location. This project supports...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Northwestern University received a $151,854 Project Grant award from the U.S. Air Force (USAF DFAS) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) for research on "Nonvolatile Computing and Communications in Thin-Film Lithium Niobate Electro-Optics." The three-year project, awarded June 15, 2026, with completion targeted for June 14, 2029, supports fundamental and applied research designed to advance Department of the Air Force...
- This federal Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), provides $390,393.00 to Northwestern University to conduct research on the "Discovery and Characterization of Functional Soft Materials." This research aims to advance scientific knowledge and develop new capabilities in materials science, with a focus on areas relevant to the Air Force. The award, with a performance period from February...
- This federal Project Grant award, valued at $1,264,645.00 and awarded on February 28, 2025, was provided by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant supports research at Northwestern University to develop, characterize, and evaluate the properties of functional synthetic materials. Key focus areas include advanced materials, semiconducting paramagnetic covalent organic frameworks for organic electronics and spintronics,...
- The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $672,344 Project Grant to Northwestern University under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to acquire a GLEEBLE system for the physical and mechanical characterization of structural materials under extreme conditions. This award, effective from Sep 30, 2023 to Sep 29, 2024, will enable Northwestern to enhance its research capabilities in materials science, including studies on aerospace engineering, nanoelectronics,...
- Northwestern University received a $395,980 Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory dated September 15, 2022 through the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant will fund the acquisition of a scanning electron microscope for structural and mechanical characterization of bio-, meta- and low dimensional materials. This equipment will allow Northwestern researchers to analyze material properties at the nano- and...
Northwestern University's Sponsored Research Division received a $286,534 Project Grant award from the U.S. Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) on May 1, 2026, with completion targeted for April 30, 2029. The award supports fundamental research investigating animal cognition and behavioral prediction, specifically examining whether and how animals can imagine or anticipate the actions of their adversaries. This research aligns with the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program's mission to maintain technological superiority through peer-reviewed competitive selection of proposals across diverse scientific and engineering domains. The research will be conducted at Northwestern University's Evanston, Illinois campus through the university's Sponsored Research Division, leveraging the institution's extensive federal research infrastructure and track record managing multidisciplinary research initiatives. As a premier research institution with established partnerships across the Department of Defense and civilian agencies, Northwestern is well-positioned to deliver high-impact findings that may inform understanding of cognitive processes with potential applications to defense-relevant human performance and decision-making capabilities.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $286.5k | 4/21/26 |