The National Science Foundation awarded Tfwireless Inc. a $276,000 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnership program (CFDA 47.084) to develop rateless codec technology for proximity space links. The award period runs from November 1, 2021 to April 30, 2023 in Burbank, California. Under this grant, Tfwireless Inc. will deliver physics-based rateless codec technology intended to enable reliable communication for proximity space links. The NSF Technology, Innovation, and...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) provides $979,625 to US Air TECH Corp. to develop a satellite communication (SATCOM) terminal with an innovative Luneburg lens antenna. The project aims to create a compact, high-bandwidth SATCOM system suitable for fixed and mobile platforms, including residences, aerial vehicles, and maritime craft. The technical goals include achieving 100x...
This $750,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) funds research and development of a universal radio adapter to enable seamless and secure wireless connectivity for U.S. Department of Defense devices through non-cooperative 5G networks. Florida International University leads a consortium that includes Florida Atlantic University, Virginia Tech, and Pqsecure Technologies LLC to create a waveform-agnostic radio...
This SBIR Phase I project, awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.084 - NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships), aims to develop massively parallel protocols for software-based wireless systems. The $273,383 award, granted on September 15, 2023, will enable Lutris, Inc., the for-profit awardee, to demonstrate the feasibility of using commodity computing hardware and specially designed software to implement radio processing tasks at high speed. This approach has the potential...
This $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) supports the development of a power-optimized, high-gain beamforming radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) front-end technology by Skygig LLC, a woman-owned small business. This advanced millimeter-wave (mmWave) wireless technology is designed to enable rapid and robust deployment of 5G/6G networks, allowing network operators to roll out...
This $399,947 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (CFDA Program 47.041 - Engineering) will fund research to develop a new paradigm for efficient and reliable wireless communication in congested and contested spectrum environments. The key objectives are to: 1) Enable computationally lightweight time-frequency signal alignment to mitigate unpredictable interference; 2) Improve ultra-reliable low latency communications...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, provided through the NSF's Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program, will support research and development for next-generation wireless network technologies operating in the sub-THz spectrum. The $400,000 award to William Marsh Rice University, valid from December 1, 2024 to November 30, 2027, will deliver three key research thrusts: Developing a multi-user sub-THz spectrum access architecture using reconfigurable metasurfaces to...
This federal Project Grant award for $300,000 was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The grant will fund a collaborative research project between investigators in the United States and Finland to develop a novel theoretical framework and practical designs for next-generation wireless communications systems operating in the 7-24GHz frequency range, also known as the FR3 band. The key products and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $265,998 supports research conducted by Boston University, Northeastern University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop new methods for improving communication performance in shared, congested, and contested wireless spectrum bands. The key focus is leveraging the structured nature of interference, rather than treating it as indistinguishable noise, to enhance reliability and...
This $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) supports the development of a commercial product by Yank Technologies, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business, to wirelessly power, test, and verify complex electronic products as they move through automated production lines. The project aims to fully automate the quality control process for manufacturing facilities, improving...