Funding

Research support.

Current awards and broader funded work supporting research in human-centered AI, human-AI collaboration, and human-autonomy teaming.

$5.8M Awarded across all grants and gifts
$740K Flathmann PI projects
$2.06M Flathmann allocation at Clemson

Active External Awards

Current PI, Co-PI, and senior personnel roles from the CV, including credited allocation where listed.

  • 2026 - An Offensive and Defensive Strategy to Human-AI Teaming: Addressing the Impacts of Failure and Adversarial Influence to Bolster Human-AI Team Resilience. AFOSR. $828,672. Co-PI (30%). Flathmann funding based on percentage credit: $248,601.
  • 2025 - Enhancing Bidirectional Adaptive Autonomy to Improve the Situation Awareness and Shared Understanding of Human-Autonomy Teams. ARL. $754,300. Co-PI (35%). Flathmann funding based on percentage credit: $264,005.
  • 2025 - Leveraging Autonomous and Human Teammates to Manage Conflict in Human-Autonomy Teams, Ensuring Trust, Team Cohesion, and Resilience. AFOSR. $390,222. PI (100%). Flathmann funding based on percentage credit: $390,222.
  • 2025 - Project Rainfly: Exploring Offensive Attack Vectors in Human-AI Teams. Mile2 Subcontract for U.S. Air Force. $349,938. PI (65%). Flathmann funding based on percentage credit: $227,459.
  • 2024 - Leveraging Adaptive Autonomous Teammates to Enable Resilience and Situational Awareness in Human-Autonomy Teams. ARL. $212,718. Co-PI (45%). Flathmann funding based on percentage credit: $95,723.
  • 2023 - Minimizing the Impact of Cognitive and Physical Limitations from Humans and Autonomy Through the Development, Training, and Implementation of Human-Autonomy Teaming in Underwater Environments. ONR. $1,095,901. Co-PI (30%). Flathmann funding based on percentage credit: $328,770.
  • 2023 - Collaborative Research: FW-HTF-RL: The Future of Aviation Inspection: Artificial Intelligence and Mixed Reality as Agents of Transformation. NSF. $1,558,433. Senior Personnel (17%). Flathmann funding based on percentage credit: $264,933.
  • 2023 - Synchronizing Collaborations for Human-Autonomy Teaming and Ethical Autonomy Use. AFOSR DURIP. $612,389. Co-PI (40%). Flathmann funding based on percentage credit: $244,955.

Development and Writing Support

Additional funded efforts listed in the CV where proposal development and writing supported the broader program of work.

  • 2021 - The Spread of Trust and Distrust in Distributed Human-Autonomy Teaming Constellations. AFOSR. $1,302,657.
  • 2021 - Connecting and Leveraging Physical and Digital Dimensions to Advance Human-Autonomy Teaming. ONR DURIP. $295,792.
  • 2020 - Promoting Human Interpretation and Interaction to Mitigate Bias in Artificial Intelligence Assisted Decision Aids. ONR. $444,368.
  • 2020 - Considerations of Ethical and Unethical Behavior on Trust in Human-Autonomy Teaming. AFOSR. $586,538.