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Center of Excellence for Alternative Jet Fuels and Environment

FAA-COE-AJFE · Opportunity FAA-COE-AJFE

Deadline September 30, 2026 21 days left

Extension of the COE

Award range $1 – $20M
Total program funding

≈ 200 awards expected

PostedNovember 13, 2023

Who can apply

The opportunity for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Center of Excellence for Alternative Jet Fuel and Environment (AJFE) was awarded in 2013 to the ASCENT cooperative aviation research organization. ASCENT is a coalition of 16 leading US research universities committed to improving the understanding of aviation noise and emissions and the modeling of aviation systems. ASCENT is co-led by Washington State University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (https://ascent.aero/). Any new grant opportunities under AJFE are open and available only to the university members of ASCENT.”

About this opportunity

The opportunity for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Center of Excellence for Alternative Jet Fuel and Environment (AJFE) was awarded in 2013 to the ASCENT cooperative aviation research organization. ASCENT is a coalition of 16 leading US research universities committed to improving the understanding of aviation noise and emissions and the modeling of aviation systems. ASCENT is co-led by Washington State University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (https://ascent.aero/). Any new grant opportunities under AJFE are open and available only to the university members of ASCENT.”

Award history — Air Transportation Centers of Excellence (Assistance Listing 20.109)

This program made about 3 new awards per year over the last five fiscal years.

New awards by fiscal year ’21: 2 · ’22: 7 · ’23: 0 · ’24: 8 · ’25: 0
Award size (min / median / max) $5k / $400k / $5.5M

Across the 13 most recent awards. Total obligations, not per-year.

Repeat winners 3 of 13 recipients won more than once

New awards recorded on USAspending.gov under the federal program that funds this opportunity. FY2025 figures may still be incomplete. FAA-COE-AJFE does not publish how many applications it receives, so a true success rate cannot be computed for this program — no one can honestly sell you that number.

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