FAA Aviation Research Grants Program
Funds aviation research grants and cooperative agreements across seven named technical areas, for colleges, universities and nonprofit research institutions.
Civil aviation needs both long-term technology growth and quick fixes to short-term technical problems, and the FAA has kept this grant programme open for exactly that since 2020.
Seven topic areas are named directly: capacity and air traffic control technology; communications, navigation and surveillance; aviation weather; airports; aircraft safety technology; human factors and aviation medicine…
Aviation research grants and cooperative agreements spanning air traffic control and capacity technology, communications, navigation and surveillance, aviation weather, airports, aircraft safety technology, human factors and aviation medicine, and systems science and operations research, open to physical, chemical, biological, medical, psychological, mathematical and engineering approaches to civil aviation and commercial space transportation.
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