Project Grant FA9550261B101
- The University of Michigan's 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 completion targeted for September 29, 2028. The award supports research on "Effective Human-Machine Teaming with Multimodal Hazy Oracle Models," a fundamental and applied scientific research initiative designed to enhance Department of the Air Force...
- The University of Michigan was awarded a $1,027,502 Project Grant on February 20, 2025 from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant is intended to support research aimed at enabling extreme-scale computing for exploratory and design-oriented hypersonics simulations. This research aligns with the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program's objectives to maintain technological superiority and create strategic...
- The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $425,569 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects, under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) for research on ligature-driven morphing wings for unmanned aerial systems (UAS). The award, effective January 1, 2026, through December 31, 2029, supports fundamental and applied scientific research designed to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Michigan received a $309,118 Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) for the period September 30, 2025 through September 29, 2026. The grant supports research on "Statistically Efficient Deep Learning Algorithms for Deep Spiked Matrix Completion and Heavy-Tailed Outlier Resistant Matrix Denoising." This research addresses fundamental computational...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Michigan's Office of Research and Sponsored Projects received a $149,988 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) for a research initiative titled "Geometric Representation Learning for Equivariant Dynamical Systems" (YIP). The award commenced on September 1, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2028. This three-year project supports...
- The University of Michigan was awarded a two-year, $300,000 Project Grant from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant funds the "MODEL-DRIVEN APPROACH TO RAPID INNOVATION FOR COMPLEX PLASMA SYSTEMS" project being conducted by the University of Michigan's Office of Research and Sponsored Projects. The project aims to develop modeling techniques to accelerate innovation for...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Michigan received a $149,301 project grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) for research titled "YIP Computational Optimization in the Absence of Derivatives and in the Presence of Noise: From Aircraft Design to Large Scale Neural Networks." The three-year award, effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028, supports fundamental and applied scientific...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Michigan's Office of Research and Sponsored Projects received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2030. This award supports a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) research initiative titled "Altermagnetism: Harvesting Advantages of Ferro and...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Michigan, through its Office of Research and Sponsored Projects, received a $100,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Air Force (USAF DFAS) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) awarded on March 15, 2026, with a completion date of March 14, 2031. The award funds a research initiative titled "Exploring New Biophysical Properties with Quantum Entanglement," which represents the Department of the Air Force's investment...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Michigan, through its Office of Research and Sponsored Projects, received a $200,000 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) for research on "Time Modulated Metamaterials/Metasurfaces for Frequency Conversion and Amplification." The award, obligated on August 1, 2025, with a completion date of July 31, 2028, supports fundamental and applied scientific...
The University of Michigan's Office of Research and Sponsored Projects received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) on June 15, 2026, with a completion date of June 14, 2029. The award supports research into "Scalable Narrative Influence Modeling and Prediction via Large Language Model Simulation," representing a three-year fundamental and applied research initiative designed to advance Air Force scientific capabilities in defense-relevant domains. Under this competitive award, the University of Michigan will conduct research and development activities to advance modeling and prediction capabilities related to narrative influence using large language model (LLM) technologies. The project addresses Air Force priorities in maintaining technological superiority and preventing technological surprise by investigating scalable methodologies for understanding and predicting influence patterns through advanced computational simulation. Research will be performed at the Ann Arbor, Michigan campus location and will contribute to the Air Force's strategic objective of enhancing Department of the Air Force mission capabilities through university-based scientific innovation.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $200.0k | 6/8/26 |