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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FISK UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $399,989 | 2022 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | Not stated | $399,975 | 2022 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | Not stated | $399,942 | 2022 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $399,879 | 2020 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC | Not stated | $399,548 | 2021 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | Not stated | $399,489 | 2018 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $399,412 | 2023 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $399,176 | 2023 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $399,153 | 2019 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON | Not stated | $399,093 | 2023 |
| THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $398,441 | 2021 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA | Not stated | $397,979 | 2025 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $397,819 | 2025 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | Not stated | $397,529 | 2020 |
| MERGE SOLUTIONS, LLC | Not stated | $396,750 | 2025 |
| KING'S COLLEGE LONDON | Not stated | $396,583 | 2022 |
| LAFAYETTE COLLEGE | Not stated | $396,561 | 2020 |
| DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUER LUFT- UND RAUMFAHRT E.V. | Not stated | $396,544 | 2023 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | Not stated | $396,310 | 2025 |
| OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $395,347 | 2023 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE | Not stated | $395,225 | 2023 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | Not stated | $395,187 | 2025 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $395,000 | 2024 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK | Not stated | $394,840 | 2019 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | Not stated | $394,000 | 2022 |
| FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $393,616 | 2023 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $393,372 | 2021 |
| ORCA COMPUTING LIMITED | Not stated | $393,000 | 2021 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORP | Not stated | $392,995 | 2022 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | Not stated | $392,942 | 2024 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | Not stated | $392,614 | 2020 |
| HOWARD UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $392,585 | 2022 |
| THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $392,400 | 2021 |
| WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | Not stated | $392,374 | 2023 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $392,284 | 2023 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH | Not stated | $392,064 | 2023 |
| GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC | Not stated | $390,846 | 2021 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | Not stated | $390,605 | 2020 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $390,393 | 2024 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $390,024 | 2022 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | Not stated | $390,000 | 2021 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | Not stated | $390,000 | 2022 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | Not stated | $390,000 | 2023 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, MERCED | Not stated | $390,000 | 2019 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $389,135 | 2023 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | Not stated | $389,077 | 2020 |
| CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE | Not stated | $389,033 | 2020 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORP | Not stated | $388,833 | 2022 |
| THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $388,816 | 2021 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE | Not stated | $388,390 | 2022 |
| UNIVERSITE COTE D'AZUR | Not stated | $388,214 | 2023 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | Not stated | $387,719 | 2020 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | Not stated | $387,405 | 2023 |
| GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $387,330 | 2023 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | Not stated | $387,308 | 2024 |
| AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $387,172 | 2024 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK | Not stated | $386,694 | 2025 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $385,801 | 2025 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | Not stated | $385,464 | 2020 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $385,125 | 2023 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE | Not stated | $383,134 | 2023 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | Not stated | $382,802 | 2025 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $381,167 | 2021 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | Not stated | $380,380 | 2024 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | Not stated | $379,837 | 2023 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $379,719 | 2023 |
| IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE | Not stated | $379,690 | 2020 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | Not stated | $378,828 | 2024 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | Not stated | $378,374 | 2019 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $378,105 | 2022 |
| THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $377,223 | 2018 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $376,972 | 2019 |
| THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $376,879 | 2025 |
| SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $376,513 | 2022 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO | Not stated | $376,394 | 2023 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | Not stated | $376,080 | 2022 |
| CINCINNATI UNIV OF | Not stated | $376,050 | 2023 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $375,996 | 2018 |
| BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $375,882 | 2017 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, MERCED | Not stated | $375,777 | 2024 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | Not stated | $375,213 | 2021 |
| CENTRALESUPELEC | Not stated | $375,000 | 2022 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $375,000 | 2022 |
| NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE | Not stated | $375,000 | 2021 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $375,000 | 2018 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | Not stated | $375,000 | 2022 |
| ROYAL MELBOURNE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | Not stated | $375,000 | 2024 |
| THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $375,000 | 2025 |
| THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO | Not stated | $375,000 | 2021 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | Not stated | $375,000 | 2020 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | Not stated | $375,000 | 2023 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | Not stated | $375,000 | 2025 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | Not stated | $375,000 | 2023 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA | Not stated | $375,000 | 2023 |
| THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO | Not stated | $374,716 | 2021 |
| EIDG. TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE (ETHZ) | Not stated | $374,400 | 2025 |
| NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE | Not stated | $374,117 | 2021 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | Not stated | $373,955 | 2020 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | Not stated | $373,369 | 2023 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $373,010 | 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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