Project Grant W911NF1910211

General Atomics was awarded a $102,432 project grant from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to develop electromagnetic launch capabilities for resource exploitation on the moon. The one-year grant running from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023 will support General Atomics' research efforts to design and test electromagnetic launch systems that can be deployed on the lunar surface to...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science has awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Fluxmagic, Inc., a for-profit manufacturing company based in Portland, Oregon, under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The grant funding will support Fluxmagic's research and development of "MAGNETIC GEARS FOR OCEAN GENERATORS", focused on advancing magnetic gear and drivetrain technologies for offshore renewable energy applications, particularly in the ocean and wind...

The National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded a $659,177 Project Grant to the Georgia Tech Applied Research Corporation to investigate gigantic jets (GJs), their ionospheric effects, and how they couple the troposphere and ionosphere. Under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the award seeks to advance scientific understanding of how cloud-to-ionosphere electrical discharges known as GJs transfer charge between the lower atmosphere and ionosphere. The...

The U.S. Department of the Air Force awarded a $139,940 Project Grant to Extreme Light Infrastructure Eric (ELI Eric) in Czechia on December 15, 2024 through the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant will fund a 3-year research project to conduct time and space resolved probing of ultra-strong magnetic fields generated from the interaction of relativistic laser pulses with ultrathin plasma targets at the ELI-Beamlines research facility. The project aims to maintain...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $993,392.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of a new power generation system for spacecraft using magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) technology. The project aims to harness the untapped potential energy in solar wind plasma to provide a high-power density, low-cost source of electrical power for space-based platforms. The broader impacts include potential medical...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $272,800 SBIR Phase I Project Grant to Morningbird Media Corporation to develop and test a prototype propulsion engine that utilizes electromagnetic energy to enable high-speed space travel. The goal is to create a fundamentally new approach to spacecraft propulsion that could lead to orders of magnitude faster space travel compared to current chemical propulsion systems. The key technical objectives are to develop a complex dielectric material and...

This $505,399 federal Project Grant award was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation for the project "ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DYNAMICS: ADVANCED IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION IN PARTIALLY MAGNETIZED PLASMA GEOMETRIES". The award period runs from September 15, 2025 through December 14, 2026. The funding supports advanced research and development efforts to improve the...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), provides $134,443 to support collaborative research titled "SHINE: Where are Particles Accelerated in Coronal Jets?". The research aims to enhance understanding of how energy is produced by the Sun and accelerated in interplanetary space by investigating where electrons are accelerated in coronal jets originating near solar...

This $199,995.00 project grant was awarded on July 10, 2023 by the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The grant supports the development of a 15 T superconducting magnet for 350 GHz, 1 MW class gyrotrons for commercial fusion reactors. The prime recipient, Bridge 12 Technologies, Inc., is a for-profit manufacturer of terahertz and microwave technology for applications in magnetic resonance, including gyrotrons...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded a $199,985 Project Grant to Bridge 12 Technologies, Inc., a manufacturer of terahertz and microwave technology, to develop a 350 GHz, 1 MW class gyrotron for commercial fusion reactors. The grant was funded under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which supports scientific research and technology development to advance energy, economic, and national security. Through past federal contract and grant awards, Bridge...