The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded a $499,185 cooperative agreement to the Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc. under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The award period is from January 10, 2022 to July 9, 2024 to support research related to multi-agent collaborative learning and inference at network edges. Specifically, the awardee will conduct research on multi-agent collaborative object recognition...
The U.S. Department of Defense awarded a $150,000 Project Grant under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. The grant period runs from September 30, 2024 to September 29, 2027. The funding will support foundational and applied research across diverse scientific and technical domains critical to national security, such as quantum computing, artificial intelligence, materials science, robotics, defense technologies, and...
The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded a $255,240 Project Grant to New York University under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The two-year award, made on February 1, 2022 and concluding on January 31, 2024, will support research demonstrating attacks and defenses on autonomous platforms driven by deep networks. The Basic Scientific Research program aims to fund basic research related to improving Army programs and...
The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (UGA Research Foundation) was awarded a $4,977,944 Cooperative Agreement by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Engineer Research and Development Center to support the "Expanding Military Installation and Defense Community-Based Capacity for Applied Research Application in Support of the Network for Engineering with Nature" project. This award is funded through the Department of Defense's Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science...
The University of Washington was awarded a $400,000 Cooperative Agreement by the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) under the Department of Defense Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The award, titled "VISION-LANGUAGE-ACTION MODELS POWERED WITH SYMBOLIC WORLD DISTILLATION FOR OPEN-WORLD REASONING AT THE EDGE", will fund research to develop advanced vision-language-action models and symbolic world distillation capabilities for open-world...
The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded $500,000 under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) to Georgia Tech Research Corporation for a one-year Cooperative Agreement ending July 7, 2023. The award will support the development and deployment of a Bayesian machine learning framework to accelerate modeling of multiscale physics controlling material responses in extreme environments. Georgia Tech will lead the effort and...
The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded a $263,924.26 Cooperative Agreement to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation from August 19, 2021 through August 18, 2023 to support basic scientific research under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The funding will support the Georgia Tech Research Corporation's delivery of basic research services that have the potential to improve Army programs and operations. As the designated...
This federal Project Grant award for $403,619.00 from the U.S. Department of Defense Research Development and Engineering Command (also referred to as DEVCOM) was made to the University of West Georgia under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The award will support foundational and applied research across diverse scientific and technical domains critical to national security, such as quantum computing, artificial intelligence, materials science, robotics, and behavioral...
The U.S. Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded a $189,690 Project Grant under the Department of Defense Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) to the University of Texas at Dallas. The grant, titled "Human-Allied End-to-End Differentiable Neurosymbolic Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning," will support foundational and applied research to advance capabilities in areas such as artificial intelligence, robotics, and defense technologies....
The University of Georgia received a $340,815 Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to conduct research on ultrafast pump-probe nanoscopy for nanoscale materials used in high-speed electronics. The grant period runs from February 1, 2023 through January 31, 2024. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain U.S. technological superiority in scientific...