Department of Defense

  1. February 6, 2024

    UM-Dearborn team helping modernize DoD engineering ecosystem

    The U.S. Department of Defense is in the midst of a modernization push and is enlisting UM-Dearborn faculty to reimagine how it designs, tests and manufactures new systems.

  2. October 17, 2023

    Grant for consortium led by U-M boosts energy, battery work

    A statewide consortium led by U-M’s Economic Growth Institute has received $4.9 million from the U.S. Department of Defense to create the foundation for energy storage and battery manufacturing.

  3. October 9, 2023

    U-M a partner in CHIPS Act Midwest microelectronics hubs

    As part of the federal CHIPS and Science Act, U-M is a founding member of two Microelectronics Commons regional innovation hubs announced by the U.S. Department of Defense.

  4. October 9, 2023

    Campus briefs

    Short news items from around the University of Michigan.

  5. August 17, 2023

    Team led by U-M receives $7.5M to aid flood predictions

    A team led by U-M is bringing together researchers in science, technology and the humanities for better flood-risk predictions and better decision-making in response to those risks.

  6. June 7, 2023

    U-M leads $7.5M effort to harness atomic-scale defects

    A $7.5 million project led by U-M aims to understand how atom dislocations could be used as “nano-pipelines” to possibly enable faster, more efficient information processing in next-generation electronic devices.

  7. December 12, 2022

    U-M researchers leading partnership studying mental fatigue

    U-M researchers are leading a multiuniversity partnership, funded with a $6.25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense, that aims to understand and predict cognitive fatigue in individuals.

  8. November 10, 2020

    $1.62B in FY ’20 research volume spurs U-M innovation

    U-M reported $1.62 billion in research volume during fiscal year 2020, which led to important advancements in a range of areas. The university maintained the same total research volume as FY ’19.

  9. December 4, 2019

    U-M reports record $1.62B in FY ’19 research expenditures

    U-M, which has ranked No. 1 in research volume among the nation’s public universities for nine consecutive years, reported $1.62 billion in research expenditures during fiscal year 2019.