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The Office of Naval Research awarded The Johns Hopkins University $190,000 on December 1, 2025, under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to conduct research on material properties, response, and degradation in high heat flux environments. The award is a Project Grant with a period of performance from December 1, 2025 through November 30, 2030. Work is performed in Maryland. The Basic and Applied Scientific Research program supports research at educational...

The Office of Naval Research awarded Massachusetts Institute of Technology $175,000 on February 1, 2026, under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to develop a gimbaled deep sea bottom lander mooring system for real-time size and settling velocity instrument observations of suspended sediment mobilized by bottom boundary layer dynamics. Performance takes place in Massachusetts and runs through January 31, 2027. The award is a Project Grant with no indirect costs....

The Office of Naval Research awarded New York University $134,328 on August 1, 2026, under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to assess and optimize mental model fluency. The project runs through July 31, 2029, with work performed in New York. The award supports research with potential to improve naval operations, evaluated on scientific merit, naval relevance, institutional capabilities, investigator qualifications, and cost realism under the peer-review selection...

The Office of Naval Research awarded Lehigh University $144,999.91 on July 1, 2026, to conduct research on risk-averse simultaneous control and 3D model learning under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300). The work is classified as a Project Grant with a period of performance through June 30, 2029, and takes place in Pennsylvania. The award supports fundamental research aimed at advancing naval operations through new technology and capability development for the Navy...

The Office of Naval Research awarded Worcester Polytechnic Institute $140,038 on September 1, 2026, under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to conduct multiscale modeling of cavitation dynamics and erosion loading. The award is a Project Grant with a period of performance through August 31, 2029, and work will be performed in Massachusetts. The program supports basic and applied research at educational institutions with potential to improve naval operations and...

The Office of Naval Research awarded The Johns Hopkins University $1,599,992 on May 1, 2026, under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to conduct research on compliant-coating degradation and its effect on hydrodynamic interactions. The award is structured as a Project Grant with a period of performance extending through April 30, 2030, and work is performed in Maryland. The research addresses potential naval applications in ship performance and operational capability...

The Office of Naval Research awarded The Johns Hopkins University $954,073 in a Project Grant on October 1, 2025 for safe stochastic nonlinear model predictive control for agile aircraft maneuvers under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300). The award supports research and development of control methodologies for high-performance aircraft maneuvering, with performance extending through September 30, 2029. Work is performed in Maryland. The Office of Naval Research funds...

The Office of Naval Research awarded The Leland Stanford Junior University $200,000 on May 1, 2026, under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to support research activities titled "Engineering a Critical Phase Through Feedback." The award is structured as a Project Grant with a period of performance from May 1, 2026, through April 30, 2029. Work is performed in California, USA. The Office of Naval Research funds basic and applied research at educational...

The Office of Naval Research awarded New York University $155,000 on December 1, 2025, under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to conduct research on sea ice rheology inference from discrete element models and observational data. The award funds research activities at New York University's place of performance in New York, New York, running through November 30, 2028. The project applies discrete element modeling and observational datasets to characterize sea ice...

The Office of Naval Research awarded The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York $145,000 on December 1, 2025, under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to conduct inverse wave scattering research in heterogeneous and multiscale media. The project runs through November 30, 2028, with performance at Columbia University in New York. The Office of Naval Research supports basic and applied research at educational institutions and non-profits with potential...