The Department of Defense awarded a $1,547,704 Project Grant to the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630). The grant, with a performance period from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2029, will fund space plasma research using the New Mexico Tech Space Weather Explorer at the university's Small Spacecraft Laboratory. As a leading minority-serving research institution, New Mexico...
The Department of Defense awarded a $602,166 Project Grant under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630) to the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) in Socorro, New Mexico. The grant will support the acquisition of a state-of-the-art mixer and micro-CT scanner for advanced manufacturing and energetic materials research at the university. This equipment will enable New Mexico Tech, a minority-serving Hispanic...
The University of New Mexico received a $580,433 Project Grant award from the Office of the Secretary of Defense on August 1, 2022 to develop a high-speed flow characterization system under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 12.630). The grant will support the University's research efforts to design and build an instrumentation platform to characterize fluid flows at high speeds, with the goal of contributing technology for Department...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $961,770 Project Grant to the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The grant, with a performance period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025, will support research on "Pressure Dependent Light Transport Through Sheaths". As a leading research university specializing in science, engineering, and technology, New Mexico Tech will...
This $300,000 Department of Defense Basic Scientific Research (CFDA 12.431) formula grant award to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) supports foundational and applied research across diverse scientific and technical domains critical to national security. The award, valid from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027, will fund innovative scientific discoveries and technological capabilities with potential military or national security applications, such as in areas like quantum...
This $109,490 federal Project Grant award was provided by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to New Mexico State University (NMSU) for the project "The Influence of Boundary Effects and Type of Environment on Turbulence Profiles". The award has a performance period from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026. The research aims to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force...
The University of New Mexico was awarded a $232,320 Project Grant by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant supports "NANOSCOPIC INFRARED IMAGING AND SPECTROSCOPY OF MATERIALS AND PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROCESSES" research to be conducted from August 2, 2023 to July 31, 2024. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain technological superiority in scientific...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a $490,741 Cooperative Agreement to the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) under the Department of Defense's Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630). The award, with a performance period from September 25, 2024 to September 24, 2027, supports research on the "Ephemeral Sediment Transport Process Evaluation for Flood Risk Management." Through this Cooperative Agreement,...
The University of New Mexico received a $360,150 Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to support research into photon processes, channel dynamics, instabilities, and nonequilibrium surface plasmas under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program. The grant period runs from March 15, 2023 through March 14, 2024. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program, identified by CFDA #12.800, aims to maintain Air Force technological...
The federal Project Grant award, with ID DESC0025548, was provided by the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) located in Socorro, New Mexico. The $921,196.38 award, granted on July 1, 2024, will support the research project "CHEMICAL AND LOADING RATE CONTROLS ON FRACTURE: TOWARD A UNIVERSAL 'PHASE-DIAGRAM' OF FACTORS CONTROLLING FRACTURE NETWORKS FROM CREEP TO DYNAMIC...