Project Grant NNC16AA04A

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded Electroimpact Inc. a $107,099 cooperative agreement under the Aeronautics program (CFDA 43.002) on August 12, 2021 to demonstrate manufacturing approaches and technologies for large composite airframe structures. The goal of the Hi-Rate Composite Aircraft Manufacturing project is to enable a four to six times increase in aircraft production rates without increased costs. Electroimpact will work to develop manufacturing processes...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $174,700 Project Grant to Thinkorbital Inc., a small for-profit business in Boulder, Colorado, under the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program (CFDA 43.012). The grant supports early-stage feasibility studies of visionary aerospace concepts that could potentially enhance or enable new human or robotic space exploration missions. The funded research aims to advance aerospace technologies from Technology Readiness...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $1,120,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) on July 1, 2024. The goal of this three-year project is to develop a prototype 1 kWh rechargeable solid-state lithium-air battery (RSS-LAB) with a gravimetric energy density over 1,000 Wh/kg and a volumetric energy density over 1,000 Wh/L, as well as a 100-cycle life. The project also aims to produce a detailed design for a...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the Aeronautics Research (CFDA 43.002) program provides $218,815.00 to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to conduct research and verification on the optimization of advanced composite components for the Aurora D8 aircraft. The award, which runs from September 15, 2024 to September 30, 2026, will focus on single-source integrated computational materials...

This $1,800,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) under the "Fueling Aviation's Sustainable Transition via Sustainable Aviation Fuels (FAST-SAF) and Low-Emissions Aviation Technologies (FAST-Tech) Grant" program (CFDA 20.115) supports efforts to accelerate the production and use of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) and advance low-emission aviation technologies. The award aims to fund a range of projects focused on...

The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) has awarded a $1,499,848.00 Cooperative Agreement to General Electric Company's (GE) GE Research Division to support the "ENGINE-INFORMED PREDICTION OF AVIATION INDUCED CIRRUS TRAILS-EPIC-TRAILS PRE-TRAILS" project. This 2.5-year project, which commenced on February 16, 2024, aims to develop advanced research and technologies related to predicting the formation of cirrus clouds induced by aviation...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $174,922 Project Grant under its Space Technology program (CFDA 43.012) to Precision Combustion, Inc., a small for-profit company based in North Haven, CT. The grant, awarded on April 1, 2025, supports early-stage feasibility studies of visionary aerospace concepts that may significantly enhance or enable new human or robotic space exploration missions. Precision Combustion, Inc. specializes in advanced research and development...

This $450,000 Project Grant was awarded on March 15, 2025 by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to Georgia Tech Research Corp. The research aims to develop adaptive flutter suppression technology for a virtually controlled aeroelastic wing using active aerodynamic distributed bleed. The 3-year program will involve wind tunnel investigations by Georgia Tech and its subcontractor Earthly Dynamics, LLC to elucidate the fundamental...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program provides $300,000 to the University of Alaska Fairbanks to develop a novel non-hydraulic cementitious composite material called Lunar Thermochemically Activated Concrete (LTAC) for lunar construction applications. The project aims to utilize lunar in-situ resources to enable sustainable and cost-effective lunar infrastructure development, which is crucial for advancing human...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate's (ARMD) University Leadership Initiative (ULI) program (CFDA 43.002) to The Regents of the University of Colorado (CU) in Boulder, CO. The ULI program seeks new innovative ideas from university teams to complement NASA ARMD's portfolio and support the U.S. aviation community. Through this 4-year award, CU will lead a team to conduct research that...