This $178,971 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Defense Research Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) is funding the development of an "Amplified Ultrashort Pulse Laser System for Investigating Petahertz Electronics in Wide-Gap Semiconductors" at the University of Michigan. The award will support foundational research to advance the understanding of petahertz-scale electronic phenomena in...
The University of Michigan was awarded a two-year, $300,000 Project Grant from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant funds the "MODEL-DRIVEN APPROACH TO RAPID INNOVATION FOR COMPLEX PLASMA SYSTEMS" project being conducted by the University of Michigan's Office of Research and Sponsored Projects. The project aims to develop modeling techniques to accelerate innovation for...
This federal Project Grant award in the amount of $113,000.00 was provided by the Department of Defense (DoD) under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The grant was awarded to the Regents of the University of Michigan on July 28, 2025, with a performance period running through July 27, 2028. The purpose of this grant is to support simultaneous measurement of Casimir forces and near-field energy transfer from heterostructured and 2D materials under equilibrium and...
The Department of Defense awarded a $400,000 Project Grant under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) to the Regents of the University of Michigan. This grant, with a performance period from August 15, 2024 to August 14, 2025, will fund foundational and applied research across diverse scientific and technical domains critical to national security. The University of Michigan, a leading public research institution, will leverage its deep academic expertise to conduct cutting-edge...
This federal Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) provides $110,000.00 to the Regents of the University of Michigan for a research project titled "HARNESSING SOLID-STATE TRANSFORMATION PATHWAYS IN COMPLEX ALLOYS". The award period runs from May 1, 2024 to April 30, 2027. Under this grant, the University of Michigan will conduct fundamental and applied scientific research to maintain...
This federal Project Grant award from the Department of Defense (CFDA 12.431 - Basic Scientific Research) provides $193,709.00 to the Regents of the University of Michigan to conduct research on "Quantum Information: Toward Rigor and Clarity" over a 3-year period from January 15, 2025 to January 14, 2028. The award supports foundational and applied research across scientific and technical domains critical to national security, with a focus on advancing fundamental knowledge in areas...
This $150,000 Project Grant was awarded by the Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) under the federal Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) on January 31, 2025. The grant is for the project "Efficient and Robust Learning for Domain Shift and Data Scarcity at the Edge" and has a performance period running through January 30, 2027. The Regents of the University of Michigan, a leading public research university, is the...
This $131,358 Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) supports fundamental and applied research by the Regents of the University of Michigan to address optimization problems with complex functional constraints, including addressing hierarchy and risk. The research aims to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force by preventing technological surprise and creating strategic...
This $1,027,502 Project Grant was awarded on February 20, 2025 by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant will fund research by the Regents of the University of Michigan to enable extreme-scale computing for exploratory and design-oriented hypersonics simulations. The research aims to maintain technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs, prevent technological surprise, and create strategic...
This Project Grant award from the Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command (CFDA 12.431 - Basic Scientific Research) provides $155,000.00 to Michigan State University for a project titled "ELECTROCHEMISTRY: NEEC STUDIES WITH AN ISOMERIC RARE ISOTOPE BEAM." The award, valid from Jan 15, 2025 to Jan 14, 2028, will support foundational research to advance knowledge in areas critical to national security, such as materials science and nuclear...