This $149,215 federal Project Grant award, funded by the Department of Defense (CFDA 12.431 - Basic Scientific Research), supports research at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on "Diffractive Near-Field Optical Processors: Universal Linear Transformations Below the Diffraction Limit of Light." The award, effective from February 28, 2025 to February 27, 2028, will enable UCLA to conduct foundational and applied research in areas such as quantum computing, photonics,...
This federal Project Grant award in the amount of $240,000 from the Department of Defense (DoD) Research Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) will support foundational and applied research at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from September 15, 2024 to September 14, 2027. The grant will fund UCLA's research across diverse scientific and technical domains critical to national security, such as quantum computing,...
The Department of Defense (DoD) awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) under the DoD's Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The grant, titled "Applications of Free Probability Theory to Tensor Networks, Quantum Information and Random Matrices," has an award date of February 14, 2025 and an ultimate completion date of February 13, 2028. The grant supports foundational and applied research across diverse scientific and technical...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $695,745 to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to support the development and exploration of the low-lying nuclear isomeric transition in the Thorium-229 isotope. The primary research objectives are to develop techniques, including laser systems, crystals, and protocols, for using this nuclear transition to enable the construction of a nuclear...
This federal Project Grant award, funded by the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), provides $600,000.00 to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to conduct in-silico design of plasma-based accelerator stages using advanced computational models and optimization techniques. The research project aims to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through transformative scientific discoveries in areas such as quantum...
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), received a three-year, $360,295 Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to support research and development in the area of physics under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant will fund R&D activities at UCLA from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024 aimed at maintaining technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs. As the parent...
This federal Project Grant award in the amount of $610,000.00 was provided by the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on September 15, 2024. The award supports the research project "PROBING THE CHARGE TRANSFER AND ENERGY TRANSDUCTION IN QUANTUM DOT/MICROBE BIOHYBRIDS" which aims to advance scientific understanding and technological capabilities in areas such as quantum information...
The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded a $1,665,823 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The grant supports foundational and applied research across scientific and technical domains critical to national security. Key focus areas include quantum computing, artificial intelligence, materials science, and other strategic research to advance fundamental knowledge and address long-term national security...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $2,520,000.00, was issued by the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). The award supports advanced biomedical research initiatives focused on transforming healthcare for military service members and the broader public. The primary awardee, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), will leverage its extensive facilities, diverse faculty expertise, and robust administrative capabilities...
This federal Project Grant award of $499,872.00 from the Department of Defense Research Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) will support research and development of modeling and simulation tools for predicting the performance of semiconductor qubits in quantum computing circuits. The key objectives include detailed device physics modeling to simulate qubit circuits, qubit calibration methods based on device physics insights...