This federal Project Grant award of $2,490,202.76 was provided by the Department of the Army Materiel Command under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The funding supports a multi-institution research project led by the University of Iowa to study succession in environmental surfaces, integrating biology and chemistry. Key activities under the grant include: Mass spectrometry analysis and chemical characterization of environmental samples by researchers at Purdue University...
This Project Grant award of $212,991.80 from the U.S. Army Research Office (ARO) under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) will support fundamental research by the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) on "Simulation Methods for Reactive Adsorption of Emerging Water Pollutants". The research aims to expand scientific knowledge and understanding in areas critical to national security, such as materials science and environmental science. The award has an...
The Department of the Army Materiel Command's Basic Scientific Research Program (CFDA 12.431) awarded a $100,000 project grant to the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology on May 23, 2025. The grant will fund fundamental research to quantify fluvial processes from seismo-acoustic signals over a 3-year period ending on May 22, 2028. This research aims to expand scientific knowledge and understanding in areas critical to national security, such as materials science and earth sciences....
This federal Project Grant award of $230,349 was provided by the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (DEVCOM) under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The award will fund research at the Colorado School of Mines to "UNDERSTAND THE FUNDAMENTAL ORIGINS OF FLEXIBILITY IN POROUS FRAMEWORKS TO ENABLE LOW-ENERGY, ON-DEMAND DELIVERY OF LARGE PAYLOADS OF GASEOUS FUELS, OXIDANTS, PROPELLANTS, AND THERAPEUTICS". This high-risk, high-payoff basic research...
This $275,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Army's Basic Scientific Research Program (CFDA 12.431) supports fundamental research at the University of California, Merced to investigate and model the behavior of advanced materials designed by nature that are tailored to resist extreme loading. The 5-year award, starting on September 30, 2024, will fund high-risk, high-payoff basic research aimed at expanding scientific knowledge and understanding in areas such as materials...
This federal Project Grant award of $160,000.00 was provided by the U.S. Army Research Development and Engineering Command under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) to the Regents of the University of Michigan. The grant supports fundamental research to develop innovative plasma-driven chemical processes for producing high-energy molecules from accessible reactants. This research aims to expand scientific knowledge and capabilities in areas critical to national security, such...
This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (DEVCOM) under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) provides $159,999 to the University of Utah to conduct research on the mechanisms of hydrocarbon conversion, coking resistance, and sulfur tolerance in solid oxide fuel cells. The 3-year project, beginning October 1, 2024, aims to expand fundamental scientific knowledge in areas critical to national security, such as materials...
This Project Grant award in the amount of $400,753.00 was provided by the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The award will fund research by Duke University to accelerate scientific discovery through the automatic identification of state variables. The research, titled "Accelerating Scientific Discovery via Automatic Discovered State Variables", will be conducted over a 3-year period from...
The University of Rochester was awarded a $126,703 project grant by the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (DEVCOM) under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The grant provides incremental funding for continued performance on a research project titled "Water Cluster Dynamics and Re-Organization on Superwicking Metal Surfaces". The research aims to expand fundamental scientific knowledge in areas such as materials science, engineering, and quantum...
The Department of the Army Materiel Command awarded a $155,511 Project Grant to the University of California, Irvine (UCI) under the Basic Scientific Research Program (CFDA 12.431). The grant, awarded on January 6, 2025, supports the development of a "Microscope for Environmental Extremes" with a planned completion date of January 5, 2026. The Basic Scientific Research Program funds high-risk, high-payoff basic research across a range of scientific and technological domains critical to...