The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $703,573 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to the University of Cincinnati Sponsored Research Services Division. This one-year award, running from August 15, 2023 to August 14, 2024, will fund spatiotemporally resolved measurements of unsteady and thermally distorted flows. The University of Cincinnati Sponsored Research Services Division has extensive experience...
The University of Cincinnati received a $597,895 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 conduct research on "UNDERSTANDING AND ADDRESSING THE DYNAMIC COUPLING BETWEEN ROBOTIC ARMS AND BASE SPACECRAFT TO ENABLE CHALLENGING IN-SPACE OPERATIONS." The project aims to develop advanced robotic systems and control technologies to enable complex in-space operations, such as...
The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded a $201,860 Project Grant to Columbia University under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The grant will support Columbia University's Aerial Light Detection and Ranging System for Land-Atmosphere Interaction Research project from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2023. The Basic Scientific Research program aims to fund basic research related to improving Army programs and operations. Under...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $409,838 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to the University of Cincinnati Sponsored Research Services Division. The funding supports the acquisition of a "HIGH SPEED INFRARED AND HIGH-SPEED MULTI-PURPOSE CAMERA" for the period of July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024. The University of Cincinnati, a public research institution, will utilize the specialized camera...
The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded a $362,150 cooperative agreement to the University of Missouri System from September 30, 2021 to July 31, 2023 under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The award will support research to establish foundations for the long-term study of applying artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to terrain detection and automated decision-making in mobile robot systems....
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to the University of Cincinnati Sponsored Research Services Division. The grant supports the development of physics-enhanced deep learning models for fast-than-real-time prediction of dynamic behavior in space robotic systems. The three-year project will leverage the university's expertise in aerospace engineering and machine...
This Project Grant award of $125,000.00 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 conducted by the Regents of the University of California at Riverside (UC Riverside) to investigate "Synthetic Data Driven Robustness Through Latent Structure Discovery" over a 3-year period from Sep 2024 to Sep 2027. The research aims to expand fundamental scientific knowledge...
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...
The U.S. Air Force awarded a $1,758,800 Cooperative Agreement to the University of Cincinnati on June 12, 2024 under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The funding supports the development of "Nanomedicine Systems for Targeted Treatment of TBI Plus Hemorrhagic Shock." The University of Cincinnati was also issued a $1,607,200 sub-award under this Cooperative Agreement on November 21, 2024 to further this research. As a leading public research institution, the...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $201,023 Project Grant to the University of California, Berkeley under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) on March 11, 2024. The funding supports research on the autonomous navigation of drones and robots in indoor and outdoor cluttered environments. The work aims to develop new capabilities and prevent technological surprise in areas relevant to Air Force needs, such as computer science, aerospace systems, and related...