Project Grant FA9550261B179
- Federal Grant Award Summary Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) received a Project Grant award of $147,915 from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) on June 15, 2025, with a completion date of June 14, 2028. The award supports research on "Assured Recovery: Design and Assurance of Autonomous Systems with Safe Recovery Capabilities," a Young Investigator Program (YIP) initiative that advances Air Force and...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute received a $215,154 Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) on October 5, 2025, with a performance period extending through October 4, 2028. The award supports research on "Two-Layered Reduced Order Modeling for Multiscale Kinetic Transport Problems in Rarefied Gas Dynamics and Plasma Physics," which addresses fundamental and applied...
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) was awarded a $300,000 project grant from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program. The grant period is from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2024. Under this award, RPI will conduct research on "LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS WITH SPIN-RESOLVED AND TWISTED INFRARED PHOTONS." The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain Air Force technological superiority in...
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute received a $226,792 project grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to develop hardware enabling powerful robotic manipulation through visual question-answering for advanced micro-environments. Funded under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), this two-year award running from May 2021 through April 2023 will support Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's work to maintain Air Force technological...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Award: RCAT-CS: Reconfigurable Constellations for Adaptive Tracking in Cislunar Space Funding Agency: Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Program: Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) Award Amount: $182,226.00 Award Date: September 15, 2025 Performance Period: September 15, 2025 – September 14, 2028 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), as prime awardee, in partnership with Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) as sub-grantee,...
- 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 Georgia TECH Research Corp received a $450,000 Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) on July 15, 2025, with a completion date of July 14, 2028. The project, titled "Toward Fast Markov Chain Monte Carlo Sampling: A Dynamics and Control Perspective," focuses on developing advanced computational methodologies for Monte Carlo sampling through applications of dynamics and...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Auburn University received a $111,800.50 Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) for the project "An Integrated Topological Framework for Cislunar Space Domain Awareness." The award, dated September 1, 2025, with a completion date of August 31, 2028, supports fundamental and applied research designed to enhance Department of the Air Force capabilities and...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute received a $220,000 project grant awarded August 1, 2025, through the Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop new stochastic optimization algorithms for solving minimax-structured nonconvex nonsmooth problems with applications in machine learning. The three-year project (completion date July 31, 2028) addresses critical gaps in existing optimization methods...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Florida Institute of Technology Inc. received a $263,039 Project Grant award from the U.S. Air Force (USAF DFAS) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), effective April 1, 2026, with a completion date of March 31, 2030. The award funds research titled "Examination of Omnidirectional Trust and Distrust in Heterogeneous Human-Agent Teams," which addresses fundamental and applied scientific research designed to maintain...
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) received a $281,741 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to conduct research on "Trustworthy Digital Aerospace Models by Differential Testing." The award, dated June 15, 2026, supports a three-year performance period concluding June 14, 2029, and is being conducted at RPI's Troy, New York campus. This project falls within the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program's mandate to maintain technological superiority through fundamental and applied scientific research that enhances Department of the Air Force mission capabilities while preventing technological surprise. The research leverages differential testing methodologies to develop validated and trustworthy digital models for aerospace applications. Given RPI's demonstrated expertise in aerospace systems, advanced computational methods, and materials science—as evidenced by its portfolio of prior Air Force Research Laboratory awards exceeding $647,000—the project advances the Air Force's objectives in aerospace technology innovation through rigorous testing and verification approaches that enhance model reliability and confidence for mission-critical aerospace systems.Federal Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $281.7k | 6/8/26 |