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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
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMANot stated$10,0002022
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVISNot stated$10,0002022
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVISNot stated$10,0002023
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELESNot stated$10,0002025
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGONot stated$10,0002023
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARKNot stated$10,0002023
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEMNot stated$10,0002023
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIANot stated$10,0002025
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTINNot stated$10,0002025
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEMNot stated$10,0002023
TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY, INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERINGNot stated$9,7432023
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTINNot stated$9,5002025
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL SOCIETYNot stated$9,3922024
LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FÜR NEUROBIOLOGIENot stated$9,0002022
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDANot stated$9,0002025
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATIONNot stated$8,8012023
UPPSALA UNIVERSITETNot stated$8,5452024
FUNDACAO GETULIO VARGASNot stated$8,4702025
UNIVERSIDAD DE MENDOZANot stated$8,0002025
WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITYNot stated$8,0002025
FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITAT ERLANGEN-NURNBERGNot stated$7,7992025
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYNot stated$7,5002025
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DEL PERUNot stated$7,4242024
UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITYNot stated$7,0002025
SVEUCILISTE U ZAGREBU FAKULTET ELEKTROTEHNIKE I RACUNARSTVANot stated$6,3872023
CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN OPTICA A.C.Not stated$6,0592024
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELESNot stated$6,0002020
UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE CHILENot stated$5,8912025
CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN OPTICA A.C.Not stated$5,5002023
CENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES, N.P.O.Not stated$5,0002024
MATERIALS RESEARCH SOCIETYNot stated$5,0002025
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, THENot stated$5,0002023
UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONANot stated$5,0002023
UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONANot stated$5,0002024
UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONANot stated$5,0002025
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK- NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELANDNot stated$5,0002023
UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIANot stated$5,0002024
TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY, INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERINGNot stated$4,9942025
FUNDACAO DE APOIO INST AO DESENV CIENT E TECNOLOGICONot stated$4,6142025
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, THENot stated$4,2602022
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA' DI BOLOGNANot stated$3,0002023
NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENSNot stated$3,0002023
RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORKNot stated$3,0002025
INDRAPRASTHA INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGYNot stated$1,7652025
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYNot stated$12025
ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONALNot stated$02017
CINCINNATI UNIV OFNot stated$02021
KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT TE LEUVENNot stated$02023
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, THENot stated$02022
RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIANot stated$02023
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANNot stated$02021
ROYAL MELBOURNE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYNot stated$02025
THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYNot stated$02023
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYNot stated$02022
THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYNot stated$02023
UNIVERSITA' DI PISA DIPARTIMENTO DI INGEGNERIA DELL'INFORMAZIONENot stated$02025
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONANot stated$02023
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGONot stated$02021
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORENot stated$02021
UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS - SPECIAL ACCOUNT FOR RESEARCH FUNDSNot stated$02020
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTINNot stated$02024
UNIVERSITY OF ZURICHNot stated$02023
WRIGHT BROTHERS INSTITUTE INCNot stated$02025

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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