Closed · FAA-COE-AJFE · CFDA 20.109 · Discretionary

Center of Excellence for Alternative Jet Fuels and Environment

Federal grant opportunity posted by FAA-COE-AJFE, cataloged on Grants.gov.

$1-$20M
Award range
Closed
Status
September 30, 2026
Close date
200
Expected awards

The verdict

Center of Excellence for Alternative Jet Fuels and Environment is a closed discretionary listing from FAA-COE-AJFE that offered $1 -- $20,000,000 across 200 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 1 other opportunity from FAA-COE-AJFE.

$1-$20M
award range
Closed
application status
200
expected awards
20.109
CFDA program

Recently closed NOFO

This listing closed on September 30, 2026. CFDA 20.109 may re-announce under a new opportunity number. Historical award band was $1 -- $20,000,000.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

Application window closed

Closed September 30, 2026

Posted Nov 13 Closes Sep 30

Expected Awards

200

Instrument

Cooperative Agreement

Cost Sharing

Required

Description

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.”

Campus applicant desk · Energy

Grants.gov prints only higher-education applicant doors for Center of Excellence for Alternative Jet Fuel… (Private institutions of higher education). This reads as a campus competition desk, not a civic or commercial open call. Applicant cost-sharing is required on the Grants.gov extract. Instrument: Cooperative Agreement. Funding-activity codes span Energy · Environment · Science and Technology / R&D (EN;ENV;ST). Inside FAA-COE-AJFE's indexed book this exact eligibility-code string is unique to this listing.

Code 20
Private institutions of higher education

Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.

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Agency Contact

Eleanor Mendelson Management Program Analyst 202-267-8016

What to do next

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