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Air Force -- Research Lab

Opportunities linked
10

Records in this library attributed to this funder.

Recorded awards (total)
$6,017,304,089

Sum of the awards we hold for this funder. A floor on its giving, not a filing total.

Median recorded award
$446,396

The midpoint of the awards we hold, not a cap and not a filing median.

Data year
Not stated

The most recent fiscal year among the awards we hold, as the source wrote it.

Why there is no giving history here

Award listings from USASpending are not connected yet. What is missing here is a feed on our side, not a document this funder has failed to publish - the listings are public and we have not connected them.

Derived from awards

Computed from the 727 recipients we hold an award to. This is where money we can see went, which is not the same as a statement of what this funder sets out to fund — and the gap between the two is widest where our coverage is thinnest.

Programmes, by money awarded

  • 12.800$6,017,304,0893863 awards

Where the recipients are

The recipient's own location, not where the work happens. A national body headquartered in Washington spends money everywhere.

  • CA $1,038,695,265
  • NY $591,340,335
  • OH $261,828,452
  • MA $218,336,661
  • TX $187,528,175
  • FL $162,540,029
  • PA $154,710,166
  • CO $149,888,594
  • IL $135,056,472
  • MD $121,347,317
  • IN $97,124,636
  • CT $92,014,170
  • MI $84,671,385
  • GA $71,476,724
  • SC $67,816,479
  • MO $64,675,808
  • AZ $62,845,566
  • NM $49,587,537
  • NC $45,862,949
  • NJ $45,152,898

Award sizes

Fixed bands rather than this funder's own quantiles, so two funders can be compared. A per-funder split would make every distribution look the same shape.

  • 100k-500k 1975
  • 25k-100k 268
  • 500k-2m 1178
  • over-2m 302
  • under-25k 140

By fiscal year

A trend across the years we import, which is a bounded window. A year with no bar is a year outside it, not a year with no funding.

  • FY2004 $616,615 (1)
  • FY2007 $8,912,661 (1)
  • FY2009 $322,085 (1)
  • FY2011 $33,502,739 (2)
  • FY2012 $17,031,133 (3)
  • FY2013 $260,230,838 (6)
  • FY2014 $55,319,163 (9)
  • FY2015 $428,108,661 (18)
  • FY2016 $306,349,926 (22)
  • FY2017 $103,021,995 (43)
  • FY2018 $298,195,339 (140)
  • FY2019 $359,301,386 (279)
  • FY2020 $1,377,763,496 (401)
  • FY2021 $1,059,122,171 (493)
  • FY2022 $518,572,049 (617)
  • FY2023 $627,893,003 (884)
  • FY2024 $352,289,125 (456)
  • FY2025 $205,733,866 (470)
  • FY2026 $5,017,838 (17)

Giving history, from the awards we hold

No dated awards on file for this funder

This table takes one row per fiscal year, built from the awards we hold. We have connected none for this funder that state a year, so there is nothing to group. That is a gap in our coverage, not a finding that the funder gave nothing.

Who has received money from this funder

3863 awards on file, largest first, ranging $0 to $688,099,542.

RecipientStateAmountFiscal year
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITYNot stated$628,8572020
UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALESNot stated$627,0122023
CINCINNATI UNIV OFNot stated$626,8772024
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, THENot stated$626,4962023
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANNot stated$625,8232022
PURDUE UNIVERSITYNot stated$625,5972023
TEXAS A&M ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATIONNot stated$625,0002022
THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYNot stated$625,0002024
THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYNot stated$625,0002025
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELESNot stated$625,0002023
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITYNot stated$624,9812018
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITYNot stated$624,9542020
BARIT SERVICES LLCNot stated$624,2362020
NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGYNot stated$624,1102019
TRUSTEES OF THE COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINESNot stated$623,0572022
THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYNot stated$622,9132023
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYNot stated$622,8882023
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMANot stated$622,1112022
BOARD OF REGENTS OF NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATIONNot stated$621,1692023
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITYNot stated$620,0272022
THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYNot stated$620,0002020
UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE VIZ ROYAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGYNot stated$620,0002019
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLASNot stated$620,0002019
CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITYNot stated$619,8422023
RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORKNot stated$619,2972023
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYNot stated$618,0442023
THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEESNot stated$617,3972024
THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEESNot stated$617,3212024
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANNot stated$616,7552024
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGONot stated$616,6152004
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAIINot stated$616,2572022
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGONot stated$616,1732020
TOBB EKONOMI VE TEKNOLOJI UNIVERSITESINot stated$616,0002022
UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALESNot stated$615,9912019
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINENot stated$614,8082022
THE UNIVERSITY CORPORATIONNot stated$613,7192024
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYNot stated$613,1232025
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDANot stated$612,8352019
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANNot stated$611,7532023
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYNot stated$611,3442020
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADONot stated$611,3082019
THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYNot stated$610,6942021
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORKNot stated$610,1282024
TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITYNot stated$609,3862023
CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITYNot stated$608,9102024
UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALESNot stated$608,6072020
UNIVERSITEIT GENTNot stated$608,4762023
RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORKNot stated$608,4272023
CORNELL UNIVERSITYNot stated$608,0762018
UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAMNot stated$607,4102025
SEMPER AEROSPACE, LLCNot stated$605,0002021
THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYNot stated$604,8202021
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, THENot stated$604,0002026
RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIANot stated$603,9692023
WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITYNot stated$602,8722024
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEENot stated$601,4862020
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARANot stated$600,1542019
THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPINot stated$600,1332020
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANNot stated$600,0702022
NEW YORK UNIVERSITYNot stated$600,0022019
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYNot stated$600,0002020
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYNot stated$600,0002023
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYNot stated$600,0002023
CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITYNot stated$600,0002021
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITYNot stated$600,0002019
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (THE)Not stated$600,0002023
GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCNot stated$600,0002022
GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPNot stated$600,0002020
HOWARD UNIVERSITYNot stated$600,0002023
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYNot stated$600,0002022
MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITYNot stated$600,0002024
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, THENot stated$600,0002022
OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITYNot stated$600,0002022
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGENot stated$600,0002019
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGENot stated$600,0002024
RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIANot stated$600,0002021
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDENot stated$600,0002020
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANNot stated$600,0002021
THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYNot stated$600,0002023
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADONot stated$600,0002024
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORKNot stated$600,0002019
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORKNot stated$600,0002021
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORKNot stated$600,0002022
THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITYNot stated$600,0002020
THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITYNot stated$600,0002023
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGONot stated$600,0002019
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGONot stated$600,0002023
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAIINot stated$600,0002023
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTHNot stated$600,0002022
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEMNot stated$600,0002022
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLNot stated$600,0002022
UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICONot stated$600,0002020
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONNot stated$600,0002019
VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITYNot stated$600,0002022
GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPNot stated$599,9992023
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYNot stated$599,9982022
CORNELL UNIVERSITYNot stated$599,9982024
SAFE INCNot stated$599,9962019
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORKNot stated$599,9962020
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTSNot stated$599,9952020

Source: USASpending.gov federal award records. Federal awards only. Last synced 2026-09-15.

What this funder funds

Derived from how this funder's 10 linked opportunities are classified, not from a funding strategy the funder published.

  • Science, Technology, Research & Development10

Currently open opportunities

Verified against each record's own source. The date on every row is the day we last checked that record — not the day this page was built.

What this funder’s awards look like

Counted over the award rows we hold for this funder. These are statistics over published records, not a model’s reading of them, and not a prediction.

Awards on file3863
Distinct recipients690
Median award$446,396

Included with Studio

The counts and the median above stay free, because they are the evidence for everything else. Studio adds the breakdowns: which states the awards went to, what kind of organisation received them, and how the amounts are distributed.

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Where this came from

Source page
grants.gov
Retrieved
Oct 1, 2026
Data source
The funder's own published figures
Award listing
usaspending.gov

The portal page the recipient rows were read from.

Awards synced
2026-09-15

When the recipient rows were last confirmed against that listing.

The official page is authoritative. Agency and foundation pages change without notice, and the retrieval date above is the only claim we make about currency. Figures we have not connected are labelled as ours to connect, never as facts about the funder.

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