Project Grant FA9550261B124
- This $471,540 federal Project Grant award was provided by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to Lehigh University. The grant supports fundamental and applied research on trust, rationality, and robust decision-making under competition in human-human and human-AI teams. Key activities include: Developing a theoretical framework to quantify bounded rationality and robust decision-making under competition and uncertainty, with...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), awarded a $101,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on September 29, 2025, with a completion date of September 28, 2028. The grant supports research on computer-assisted design methodologies for developing provably fastest algorithms in optimization, with particular focus on primal-dual, adaptive, and online optimization...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to Princeton University's Office of Research and Project Administration on September 1, 2025, under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The award supports research titled "Uncertainty Realism, Propagation, and Estimation for Cislunar Space Domain Awareness" with a performance period extending through August 31, 2028. This research initiative addresses critical Air...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $100,000 project grant to the University of California, San Diego on September 5, 2025, under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to support research on "Optimization Challenges in Tensor Computation." The three-year award, which concludes on September 4, 2028, funds fundamental and applied scientific research designed to enhance the Department of the Air Force's technological capabilities...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded The Regents of The University of Colorado a $430,000 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) for the period October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2029. The project, titled "State-Resolved Studies of Nonequilibrium Aerothermochemistry in Expanding Flow Environments," focuses on fundamental research into the behavior of gases under extreme conditions relevant to...
- 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 Pennsylvania State University was awarded $310,000 under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) by the Air Force Research Laboratory, effective May 15, 2026, with a completion date of May 14, 2029. The award funds research on an entropy-based framework for characterizing strongly compressible turbulent flows, a project designed to advance the Department of the Air Force's scientific and technological capabilities in aerodynamics...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Houston System received a $149,364 Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) effective September 1, 2025, with completion targeted for August 31, 2028. The award supports a Young Investigator Program (YIP) initiative titled "Breaking Energy Efficiency Limits in Unsteady Wall-Bounded Flows," which focuses on fundamental and applied scientific research to...
- Federal Grant Award Summary: Graph Complexity Measures Princeton University received a $166,468 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) awarded September 20, 2025, with a completion date of September 19, 2028. The grant supports fundamental research on graph complexity measures, focusing on the structural properties and algorithmic approaches to understanding graph theory problems relevant to Air Force scientific...
- Federal Grant Award Summary George Mason University received a $813,750 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028. The award supports research on "Penalty-Free, Accelerated and Scalable Training and Optimization," designed to advance computational methods and algorithms relevant to Air Force scientific priorities. The project encompasses development of...
Lehigh University's Office of Research received a $146,441 Project Grant award from the United States Air Force (USAF) Defense Financial and Accounting Service under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) for the project "Lagrange Multiplier and Hessian Estimation in Stochastic Algorithms for Solving Large-Scale Constrained Continuous Optimization Problems." The three-year award, effective June 1, 2026 through May 31, 2029, will support fundamental and applied research aimed at developing advanced mathematical and algorithmic techniques for optimization problems relevant to Air Force mission capabilities. This research focuses on improving computational methods for solving large-scale constrained optimization challenges through enhanced estimation techniques for Lagrange multipliers and Hessian matrices within stochastic algorithmic frameworks. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program supports scientific research across diverse engineering and scientific domains to maintain technological superiority and prevent technological surprise, with awards administered through competitive peer-reviewed selection processes in accordance with federal regulations. Research will be conducted at Lehigh University's Pennsylvania location, contributing to the Department of the Air Force's research infrastructure and mission effectiveness through advanced computational optimization methodologies applicable to defense-related challenges.Federal Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $146.4k | 5/12/26 |