Air Force -- Research Lab
- Opportunities linked
- 10
- Recorded awards (total)
- $6,017,304,089
- Median recorded award
- $446,396
Records in this library attributed to this funder.
Sum of the awards we hold for this funder. A floor on its giving, not a filing total.
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.
| Recipient | State | Amount | Fiscal year |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $299,940 | 2024 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $299,928 | 2022 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM | Not stated | $299,914 | 2021 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG | Not stated | $299,908 | 2023 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT WILMINGTON | Not stated | $299,885 | 2022 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK | Not stated | $299,801 | 2021 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW COURT | Not stated | $299,741 | 2025 |
| UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI GENOVA | Not stated | $299,665 | 2023 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | Not stated | $299,568 | 2025 |
| THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $299,558 | 2024 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON | Not stated | $299,555 | 2025 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON | Not stated | $299,486 | 2025 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $299,427 | 2025 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $299,423 | 2025 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION | Not stated | $299,363 | 2024 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK | Not stated | $299,285 | 2024 |
| QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON | Not stated | $299,268 | 2021 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | Not stated | $299,165 | 2025 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | Not stated | $299,154 | 2025 |
| FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT | Not stated | $299,118 | 2024 |
| INESC ID - INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIA DE SISTEMAS E COMPUTADORES, INVESTIGACAO E DESENVOLVIMENTO EM LISBOA | Not stated | $299,084 | 2022 |
| TEXAS A&M ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION | Not stated | $299,077 | 2025 |
| THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO | Not stated | $299,042 | 2025 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $299,013 | 2023 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $298,932 | 2025 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | Not stated | $298,822 | 2025 |
| MONASH UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $298,752 | 2025 |
| UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM | Not stated | $298,603 | 2022 |
| WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | Not stated | $298,563 | 2023 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION | Not stated | $298,458 | 2023 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $298,160 | 2025 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD | Not stated | $297,989 | 2021 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORP | Not stated | $297,926 | 2024 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $297,718 | 2022 |
| EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY, INC. | Not stated | $297,576 | 2023 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | Not stated | $297,082 | 2021 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE | Not stated | $297,071 | 2023 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | Not stated | $296,946 | 2020 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS | Not stated | $296,941 | 2023 |
| EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY, INC. | Not stated | $296,849 | 2023 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE | Not stated | $296,810 | 2024 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $296,262 | 2022 |
| UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA | Not stated | $295,815 | 2023 |
| RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $295,512 | 2025 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES | Not stated | $295,491 | 2022 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | Not stated | $295,415 | 2024 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ | Not stated | $295,318 | 2024 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | Not stated | $295,282 | 2020 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $295,064 | 2025 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND | Not stated | $294,442 | 2025 |
| ROYAL MELBOURNE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | Not stated | $294,291 | 2024 |
| UNIVERSITY OF BATH | Not stated | $293,607 | 2022 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $293,500 | 2023 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | Not stated | $293,383 | 2022 |
| NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES | Not stated | $293,000 | 2023 |
| THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $292,370 | 2024 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $291,740 | 2021 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $291,667 | 2025 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $291,159 | 2021 |
| GROGGER MELANIE | Not stated | $291,000 | 2024 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | Not stated | $290,000 | 2023 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | Not stated | $289,408 | 2022 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | Not stated | $289,350 | 2021 |
| TEXAS A&M ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION | Not stated | $289,189 | 2025 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES | Not stated | $289,067 | 2024 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORP | Not stated | $288,484 | 2025 |
| GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCES | Not stated | $287,554 | 2024 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $287,270 | 2024 |
| LINKOPINGS UNIVERSITET | Not stated | $286,828 | 2022 |
| NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU | Not stated | $286,317 | 2021 |
| UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA | Not stated | $285,940 | 2020 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | Not stated | $285,654 | 2025 |
| BAHIR DAR UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $285,608 | 2022 |
| FUNDACAO DE DESENVOLVIMENTO DA UNICAMP FUNCAMP | Not stated | $285,300 | 2024 |
| SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $285,300 | 2020 |
| TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT | Not stated | $285,258 | 2022 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, MERCED | Not stated | $284,539 | 2021 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO | Not stated | $284,492 | 2021 |
| UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II | Not stated | $284,378 | 2021 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES | Not stated | $284,313 | 2024 |
| COMMISSARIAT A L' ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES | Not stated | $284,000 | 2020 |
| QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON | Not stated | $283,254 | 2025 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | Not stated | $283,162 | 2023 |
| S4, LLC | Not stated | $282,875 | 2023 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | Not stated | $282,347 | 2021 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $280,420 | 2024 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON | Not stated | $280,379 | 2022 |
| FORSCHUNGSVERBUND BERLIN E.V. | Not stated | $280,000 | 2022 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK | Not stated | $280,000 | 2021 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $279,538 | 2025 |
| THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS, AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE | Not stated | $278,460 | 2019 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $277,750 | 2023 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE | Not stated | $277,750 | 2020 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE | Not stated | $277,691 | 2022 |
| TOWSON UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $277,660 | 2020 |
| THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $277,616 | 2023 |
| TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE | Not stated | $276,997 | 2024 |
| SABANCI UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $276,328 | 2022 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $275,931 | 2023 |
| ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | Not stated | $275,559 | 2023 |
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.
- STARBASE Wright PattCloses Not statedChecked 2026-10-23
- CHEERS Open Period 1 - All Technical AreasCloses Sep 30, 2027Checked 2026-10-23
- CHEERS Open Period 2 - All Technical AreasCloses Sep 30, 2027Checked 2026-10-23
- FOUNDATIONS OF TRUSTED SYSTEMSCloses Dec 5, 2028Awards up to $99,900,000Checked 2026-10-23
- Coordinating Austere Nodes through Virtualization and Analysis of Streams (CANVAS)Closes May 22, 2029Awards up to $24,900,000Checked 2026-10-23
- Research and Development (RAD) Directed Energy (RD) University Assistance InstrumentsCloses Jul 18, 2029Awards up to $49,000,000Checked 2026-10-23
- Automated Processes for Knowledge Discovery and Information RetrievalCloses Sep 9, 2029Awards up to $99,000,000Checked 2026-10-23
- Pioneering Aerospace Capabilities, Engineering and Research (PACER)Closes May 10, 2043Checked 2026-10-23
- Continuing Human Enabling Enhancing Restoring and SustainingCloses Aug 22, 2044Checked 2026-10-23
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.
Included with Studio
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