AFRL FY25 Compositional Optimization, Dynamical Systems and Control (CODAC) UNIVERSITY CENTER OF EXCELLENCE
- Posted
- January 21, 2025
- Closed
- April 21, 2025
- Award ceiling
- $5,750,000
- Award floor
- $500,000
- Expected awards
- 1
- Cost sharing
- No
- Instrument
- Grant
- Assistance listing
- 12.800
- Archives
- April 22, 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 Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) describes a newly proposed initiative of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) concerning standing up a University Center of Excellence (uCoE) for “Compositional Optimization, Dynamical Systems and Control (CODAC)” with educational institutions in the United States. The uCoE is defined as a joint effort among multiple technical directorates (TDs) of the Air Force Research Laboratory to include: the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Information Directorate (RI), Autonomy Capability Team (ACT3), and Munitions Directorate (RW), referred to collectively as “we, our, or us,” in this NOFO, and an outstanding university or team of universities that will perform high priority unclassified and collaborative basic / applied (6.1/ 6.2) research which addresses the United States Air Force (USAF) and United States Space Force (USSF) research needs in the CODAC area with relevance to joint optimization and decision making.
Please see the announcement for more information.
Who can apply
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
See announcement for additional information on eligibility
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