University Day
- Posted
- May 5, 2025
- Closed
- May 21, 2025
- Award ceiling
- $100,000
- Award floor
- $75,000
- Expected awards
- 6
- Cost sharing
- No
- Instrument
- Grant
- Assistance listing
- 12.800
- Archives
- June 23, 2025
Program funding history
Awards made under Assistance Listing 12.800 across FY2025–FY2027, from public federal spending records.
- FY2025 obligated
- $577.2M
- FY2026 obligated
- $818.8M
- FY2027 (to date) obligated
- $0
- Awards in window
- 2,256
Top recipients: National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining, Flextech Alliance, Inc., Bioindustrial Manufacturing and Design Ecosystem, The Research Foundation for the State University of New York, Cornell University
Source: USAspending.gov · refreshed October 2026 · Program page: awards, recipients and the opportunities under this listing →
Synopsis
This CALL is open to U.S. Universities only. The purpose of this CALL is to solicit leading-edge research from academic collaborators that currently do not have a relationship with AFRL/RW via existing contract/grant. However, AFRL/RW will consider all U.S. Universities’ proposals. AFRL/RW intends to award short-term seedling projects in two research areas. Offerors shall propose against ONE research area topic only. Only those Offerors who meet the highly selectable and/or selectable categories will be invited to the virtual pitch day. The Government is anticipating Distribution A (Publicly releasable) classification for this call; proposals with other classification levels must be marked appropriately.
This prior forecast opportunity is now open for applications.
Who can apply
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
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