The Project Grant award of $375,000.00 from the Office of Naval Research's Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York supports fundamental and applied multidisciplinary research in the areas of algorithms, learning, and game theory related to multi-agent systems. The research will be conducted at Columbia University from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2029 and has the potential to advance naval capabilities and...
The Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR) awarded a $598,790.00 Project Grant to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York on December 1, 2024 under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research (CFDA 12.300) program. This grant supports fundamental and applied research across a range of scientific and technological domains with potential to advance naval operations and broader scientific knowledge. The research to be conducted at Columbia University under this...
The Department of the Navy, Secretary of the Navy Office of Naval Research awarded Cornell University a $174,716 Project Grant under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300). The grant will fund planning for a project exploring the promise of artificial intelligence to revolutionize science and engineering. The Office of Naval Research aims to support basic and applied research with potential to improve naval operations through this program. The grant period is from...
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) awarded a $249,010 Project Grant to Geovathys Inc. under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to conduct research on features of the geometry of neural networks. The award, which runs from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2028, aims to stimulate innovative, high-risk research with the potential to advance naval operations and broader scientific knowledge in areas such as materials science, artificial intelligence, and autonomous...
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) awarded a $113,216 Project Grant to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) to support collaborative research on feasible, model-free distributionally robust policy learning. The project will be performed from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027 under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research (CFDA 12.300) federal grant program. This program aims to stimulate innovative research at educational institutions, non-profit organizations, and...
This federal Project Grant award in the amount of $873,140.00 was issued by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300). The award was made to New York University on February 1, 2025, with a planned completion date of January 31, 2026. The award funds computational mathematics research on high-dimensional problems with applications in science, engineering, and artificial intelligence. The research aims to advance naval operations and...
This $113,500 federal Project Grant award, funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300), supports computational fluid dynamics (CFD) research at the University of Iowa. Specifically, the research will study transient maneuvering dynamics of naval vessels to inform physics-based modeling and machine learning/artificial intelligence (ML/AI) approaches. The performance period for this grant runs from July 1, 2025 to June 30,...
The Department of the Navy Secretary of the Navy Office of Naval Research awarded Brown University a $6,719,976 project grant under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to establish a unifying artificial intelligence model for generally-capable robots. The four-year award beginning August 1, 2022 will support Brown University's development of an AI model to improve naval operations by training and motivating future technologies with potential for superiority. The grant...
The Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research awarded a $117,000 Cooperative Agreement to Michigan Technological University to conduct research under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research (CFDA 12.300) federal grant program. The project, titled "MULTI-SENSORY COGNITIVE MODELING FOR GEOSPATIAL DECISION MAKING AND REASONING", will research and develop advanced modeling and reasoning capabilities for geospatial decision making. This work has potential applications for naval...
This $128,000 federal Project Grant award from the Office of Naval Research under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) supports research by Cornell University on reinforcement learning for generative models. The award, which runs from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2028, aims to advance naval capabilities and national security through innovative research in areas such as artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, and advanced manufacturing. As a prominent research...