Project Grant FA9550261B125
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Illinois 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 July 15, 2026, with a completion date of July 14, 2029. The award funds research on "Mathematical Foundations for Learning and Inference with Transformer-Like Architectures," which addresses fundamental computational and mathematical theory underlying transformer neural network...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Illinois received a $185,903 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) for the project "Geometric and Topological Approaches in the Study of Distributions." The award, effective July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2029, funds fundamental research in geometric and topological mathematics with applications relevant to Air Force scientific priorities. This research...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Illinois received a $175,000 Project Grant award dated August 15, 2025, from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to support the design of novel diagnostic models for studying radiation from unsteady hypersonic nonequilibrium flows. The three-year project, with an ultimate completion date of August 14, 2028, will be conducted at the University of Illinois in Illinois and focuses...
- 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 The University of Illinois received a $350,000 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) awarded on June 15, 2026, with an ultimate completion date of June 14, 2029. The award supports research and development of efficient high-power (megawatt to terawatt scale) gas lasers utilizing hybrid pumping processes or free-free optical transitions. This research aligns with the Air Force Defense...
- The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $199,600 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to the Illinois Institute of Technology for the period of July 15, 2021 to July 14, 2022. The grant funding will support research to understand the role of intragranular strain during deformation and processing of high-temperature structural metals. Specifically, the DURIP funding will be used to purchase an integrated Oxford...
- 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), effective May 15, 2026, with a completion date of May 14, 2029. The award funds research on 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, and an...
- Grant Award Summary The University of Illinois received a $126,124 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) awarded on September 8, 2025, with a completion date of September 7, 2028. The project, titled "Probing Surface Plasmon-Induced Chemical Reactions at the Angstrom Scale," supports fundamental research in materials science and photonics aligned with Air Force modernization priorities. This award...
- The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to the University of Illinois under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) for research in quantum paraelectric electro-optics. The award, effective September 15, 2025, with a completion date of September 14, 2028, supports fundamental and applied scientific research designed to maintain technological superiority for the United States Air Force and Space Force. The research will be conducted at the...
- Summary of Federal Grant Award The University of Dayton Research Institute received a $284,136 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) effective May 1, 2026, through April 30, 2027. The award funds research to benchmark stereo event-based velocimetry for three-dimensional flowfields using Lagrangian reference measurements. This research supports the Air Force's objective to maintain technological superiority in...
Illinois Institute of Technology's Sponsored Research and Programs Division received a $148,396 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) effective September 1, 2026, with a completion date of August 31, 2029. The award funds research titled "A Neural-Optical Flow Approach for Measuring 3D Supersonic Turbulent Shock-Boundary-Layer Interactions," which represents fundamental research aligned with Air Force modernization priorities in fluid dynamics and computational methods. The project deliverables include development of novel measurement techniques and analytical approaches to characterize complex aerodynamic phenomena relevant to high-speed flight applications. The research will be conducted at the grantee's Illinois-based facilities and is expected to produce technical outputs, findings, and methodologies applicable to supersonic flow analysis. As a private nonprofit research institution with established expertise in advanced materials science and computational applications, IIT brings institutional capabilities in specialized research infrastructure and PhD-level faculty to this Defense Research Sciences Program award, which primarily supports basic research maintaining Air Force technological superiority across fundamental science areas.Federal Grant Award Summary
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