This Project Grant award from the Office of Naval Research (ONR), under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300), provides $1,048,025.00 to the University of Massachusetts Lowell to support long-term autonomy research for ground and aquatic robotics. The award, running from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026, will enable the university to conduct innovative research and technology development in areas such as advanced materials, intelligent systems, and computational...
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth was awarded a $326,763 Project Grant from the Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300). The grant supports the development of new sensing algorithms for complex seabed terrain, with an award period from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025. This research aims to advance naval capabilities related to maritime operations, safety, security, and stewardship through innovative...
The University of Massachusetts Lowell was awarded a $225,000 Project Grant by the Office of Naval Research under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to design robust electrocatalysts for fuel generation. The award period extends from December 1, 2024 to November 30, 2027. The university will utilize this funding to integrate structural design with electronic tuning to develop advanced electrocatalysts that can enable more efficient fuel generation, with potential...
The Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research awarded a $1,663,381.00 Project Grant under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) to conduct research on long-term underwater autonomy for surveillance and manipulation capabilities. The award period runs from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2025. UMass is conducting this research through its Office of Research Administration-Lowell division. The project aims to advance naval...
The University of Massachusetts was awarded a $275,907 Project Grant from the Department of the Navy Secretary of the Navy Office of Naval Research to support research probing basic electronic properties in microbial protein nanowires from June 1, 2021 through December 31, 2023. The grant supports the University's research under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300), which aims to improve naval operations through supporting basic and applied research with potential...
The University of Massachusetts Boston (UMass Boston) was awarded a $100,000 Project Grant by the Office of Naval Research under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300). This federal grant award will support fundamental and applied research across a range of scientific and technological domains that have potential to advance naval operations and broader scientific knowledge. The research performed under this award will span disciplines including materials science,...
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth received a $157,000 Project Grant award from the Office of Naval Research under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300). The grant will support advanced research on "INVARIANT MODE BAYES FACTOR ACTIVE SONAR" from October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2027. As a prominent research university, UMass Dartmouth has significant expertise in conducting applied research and technical services for federal agencies across...
The University of Massachusetts Lowell was awarded a $2,931,383 Cooperative Agreement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the agency's Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) program (CFDA 11.015). The funding will support the "BRIDGING RESEARCH ADVANCEMENT WITH VERSATILE ENGINEERING" project, which aims to develop innovative engineering research and technological solutions in areas critical to NOAA's strategic mission. The project has an ultimate completion...
This Project Grant award of $4,280,001.00 from the Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) supports marine and undersea technology research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. The award, which runs from May 1, 2025 to April 30, 2028, will fund the Marine and Undersea Technology Research Program (MUST VI) at the university. This program conducts advanced research across a range of disciplines including...
The Office of Naval Research awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) to develop and advance the fundamental science necessary to enable a new generation of communication networks that rely on ubiquitously distributed intelligent metasurfaces. The project aims to disruptively advance communication and information processing performance through a...