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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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,...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Illinois received a $150,000 Project Grant award from the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028. The research project focuses on the development and advancement of multi-junction buried dielectric photonic crystal surface emitting laser diodes and arrays. This fundamental and applied research initiative aligns with the Air Force's mission to maintain technological superiority in...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Princeton University received a $400,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) on June 15, 2025, with a completion date of June 14, 2030. The award funds research on "Precision and Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Photochemistry Under Electronic Strong Coupling," a fundamental science initiative supporting the Department of the Air Force mission to maintain...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Purdue University received a $538,048 Project Grant from the U.S. Air Force (USAF) Defense Financial and Accounting Service under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) effective June 1, 2026 through May 31, 2027. The award supports the acquisition and development of a custom two-photon microscope equipped with adaptive optics technology, to be performed at the university's West Lafayette, Indiana campus. This specialized imaging instrument will...
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) award designed to support fundamental and applied scientific research that enhances the Department of the Air Force's technological capabilities and maintains U.S. scientific superiority. Under this award, Northwestern University will develop and advance laser and spatial light modulator technologies to enable ultrafast automatic event recognition through multiphoton atomic transition mechanisms. The research conducted at the university's Evanston, Illinois campus is expected to contribute to the Air Force's strategic interests in quantum information sciences and advanced detection systems while strengthening the nation's research infrastructure through university-based innovation and peer-reviewed scientific investigation.Federal Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $351.1k | 4/22/26 |