THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Total received in grants · trailing 12 months
$6.3M
$0for every U.S. household÷ 131M U.S. households
In perspective
0.0%of all $162.9B in tracked grants
3separate grants, trailing 12 months
THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES has received $6.3M across 3 federal grants of $1M or more on record.
Data as of July 24, 2026. Source: USAspending.gov, prime contract awards $1M+. Federal spending data lags and has known gaps. This is not a real-time or complete record.
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| Agency | Description | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Energy | SECURE AND RESILIENT OPERATIONS USING OPEN-SOURCE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS PLATFORM (OPENDSP) | $3,200,000 |
| Department of Energy | GAINING FUNDAMENTAL UNDERSTANDING OF CRITICAL FAILURE MODES AND DEGRADATION MECHANISMS IN FIELDED PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES VIA MULTISCALE CHARACTERIZATION | $1,999,899 |
| Department of Energy | THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES-NEW AWARD CONTROL #3590-1554,DE-FOA-0003590 (MAGNITO) TITLE: FUSION: 5F-ELECTRON ULTRA-STRONG INTERMETALLIC MAGNETS THROUGH OPTIMIZED NEW PHASES WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP A NEW CLASS OF ULTRA-STRONG PERMANENT MAGNETS BASED ON 5F-ELECTRON ACTINIDE ELEMENTS, WHICH HOLD UNIQUE ELECTRONIC STRUCTURES CAPABLE OF PRODUCING EXTREMELY HIGH MAGNETIC STRENGTH. TODAY’S STRONGEST MAGNETS EITHER LOSE PERFORMANCE AT HIGH TEMPERATURES OR DEPEND ON MATERIALS WHOSE ELEMENTS ARE SCARCE AND DIFFICULT TO PRODUCE DOMESTICALLY. OUR APPROACH OVERCOMES THESE LIMITATIONS BY DESIGNING URANIUM–IRON (U–FE) INTERMETALLIC COMPOUNDS THAT SIMULTANEOUSLY ACHIEVE VERY HIGH MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY AND HIGH CURIE TEMPERATURE—TWO PROPERTIES RARELY REALIZED TOGETHER IN A SINGLE MATERIAL SYSTEM. TO ACCOMPLISH THIS, THE EFFORT BRINGS TOGETHER THE COMPLEMENTARY STRENGTHS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA (UCF), WITH EXPERTISE IN URANIUM DIFFUSION COUPLE AND SINTERING STUDIES; THE U.S. NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY (NRL), WITH HIGH-THROUGHPUT MAGNETIC THICK-FILM MEASUREMENTS OF ANISOTROPY AND CURIE TEMPERATURE; OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY (ORNL), WITH ADVANCED BEYOND-DFT AND AI/ML MODELING OF U–FE SYSTEMS; AND VULCAN ELEMENTS, WHICH PROVIDES DOMESTICALLY SOURCED ACTINIDES AND INDUSTRIAL SCALING PATHWAYS. TOGETHER, THE TEAM WILL TACKLE THE CORE CHALLENGE OF CO-OPTIMIZING ANISOTROPY AND CURIE TEMPERATURE BY IDENTIFYING AND REFINING TERNARY U–FE–X STRUCTURES, LEVERAGING BOTH COMPUTATIONAL PREDICTIONS AND EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION. THE RESULTING DESIGN RULES WILL GUIDE SCALABLE MAGNET BLOCKS TARGETING >1000 KJ/M³ (>120 MGOE) ENERGY PRODUCT USING U.S.-SOURCED DEPLETED URANIUM, WHICH EXHIBITS RADIOACTIVITY OF ONLY ~0.015 MBQ/KG—LOWER THAN A COMMON HOUSEHOLD SMOKE DETECTOR (AM-241, ~0.040 MBQ). OVERALL, THIS EFFORT LEVERAGE U.S. LEADERSHIP IN ACTINIDES TO DEVELOP NEXT-GENERATION HIGH PERFORMING MAGNETS AND REDUCING DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN CRITICAL MATERIALS. | $1,074,375 |