Project Grant H982101510002

The Department of Defense (DoD) awarded a $116,398 FY24 Block Grant to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) for the DoD Cyber Scholarship Program (CYSP) and DoD Cyber and Digital Services Academy (DCDSA). This award, with a performance period from August 16, 2024 to August 15, 2025, supports curriculum development, research projects, and scholarship programs to enhance national cybersecurity capabilities and strengthen the talent pipeline in information assurance, cybersecurity, and related...

The Department of Defense, Office of the Secretary of Defense, awarded a $735,111.10 Cooperative Agreement to the American Indian Chamber Education Fund (AICEF) under the Procurement Technical Assistance For Business Firms program (CFDA 12.002). The purpose of this award is to establish and maintain an APEX Accelerator that will serve as a resource for business entities, including newly started businesses, to obtain procurement technical assistance. The APEX Accelerator will help these...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $250,000 Project Grant under the Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910) to Arizona State University (ASU) to support innovative, high-risk, high-reward fundamental research over a 2-year period from May 1, 2025 to April 30, 2027. The grant aims to identify and engage rising researchers in academia to develop transformative Department of Defense (DoD) capabilities in areas of interest to DARPA's technical...

The National Science Foundation awarded Space Domain Awareness Inc. a $256,000 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop a space object tracking unit. The one-year award, issued on December 1, 2021, will support the company's efforts to advance science and engineering research and innovation leading to breakthrough technologies to address national challenges. Specifically, the funding will enable Space Domain Awareness Inc. to deliver a...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Army Research Development and Engineering Command (DEVCOM), under the Department of Defense (DoD) Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431), provides $499,428.18 in funding to Alakai Defense Systems, Inc. to develop a photonics integrated circuit (PIC) based spectrometer for use in wavelength enhanced Raman spectroscopy (WERS) and wavelength enhanced Raman detection (WERD) applications. The award period runs from September 15, 2024 to...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $492,809 Cooperative Agreement on January 14, 2025 to Arizona State University (ASU) under the Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910). The award, titled "Capabilities & Limitations of LLMs in Planning (CLLAMP)", will fund research and development on the capabilities and limitations of large language models (LLMs) in planning applications over a 12-month period through January 13, 2026. ASU, a...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Defense's Office of the Secretary of Defense is funded under the Procurement Technical Assistance for Business Firms program (CFDA 12.002). The $1,170,411.23 award to the Georgia TECH Research Corp, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Programs, will establish and maintain an APEX Accelerator to serve as a resource for business entities, including newly started businesses, to obtain procurement technical assistance. The APEX...

This Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) provides $125,000.00 in funding to the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University) in Australia. The award supports research on data-driven reduced order modeling and preliminary experimentation to investigate the combined effects of transonic buffet and freeplay-induced limit cycle oscillations. This research aims to...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, issued by the Department of Defense's Office of the Secretary of Defense under the Procurement Technical Assistance For Business Firms program (CFDA 12.002), provides $405,467.66 in funding to the Departamento De Desarrollo Economico Y Comercio (Department of Economic Development and Commerce), the primary economic development agency for the government of Puerto Rico. The award funds the establishment and maintenance of an APEX Accelerator, which will...

This Project Grant award of $656,723, made by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), supports research to advance the clinical application of distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) as a diagnostic tool. The key objectives are to: 1) validate a new protocol for recording DPOAE frequency-specific responses to improve detection of mild-to-moderate hearing...