Cooperative Agreement 2540148
- This SBIR Phase I project, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084), aims to develop an automated digital accessibility testing and remediation platform for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) compliance. The $274,990 award to URL To IRL Inc., a minority-owned small business, will leverage artificial intelligence, computer vision, and source code analysis techniques to accurately identify and remediate...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project award of $222,489 aims to develop an accessibility interface technology to improve software usability for the approximately 61 million Americans living with disabilities. The proposed solution will enable end-users to access up to 80% of commercially-available software, while also providing software distributors a low-cost method to fulfill accessibility mandates and increase product usage and...
- The National Science Foundation awarded Cooperative Agreement 2545788 to In Virtualis LLC, a SBA-certified women-owned small business, for $1.25 million on August 15, 2026, under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). The award funds development of an artificial intelligence middleware layer that converts minimal biosignals—such as brain-computer interface and electromyographic inputs—into context-aware, multi-step actions. Current biosignal systems provide...
- Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Saferdive AI LLC received a $1.55 million cooperative agreement from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) awarded September 1, 2025, with completion targeted for August 31, 2028. Under this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Fast-Track Pilot Project, the company will develop a generative artificial intelligence-driven simulation framework designed to validate autonomous vehicle safety...
- The National Science Foundation awarded Smartcharts Inc. a $1.25 million Cooperative Agreement on August 1, 2026, under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop AI-driven visualization technology that transforms unstructured rehabilitation documentation into visual representations of patient functional ability over time. The project builds on Phase I results to refine and validate a rehabilitation-specific data framework representing patient functional...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education awarded the Research Foundation of The City University of New York (doing business as RFCUNY - Brooklyn College) $339,688 on October 15, 2026, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop and disseminate accessibility curriculum and instructional resources for undergraduate computing education. The project will create empirically informed instructional materials, including updated accessibility games emphasizing...
- This $749,685 National Science Foundation project grant under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) will fund the development of an Automated, Integrated, Multimodal Software (AIMS) system to improve inclusive access to information for persons with disabilities. Saint Louis University leads a consortium that includes software companies Vital, Unar Labs, and Viewplus Technologies to build a unified framework for authoring, converting, and delivering accessible content...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant, awarded to Lehigh University with a total funding of $219,642, aims to develop a community-driven framework and prototypes for digital accessibility mapping of indoor environments. The key products to be delivered include: An accessibility metadata schema and backend mapping database server for indoor maps. A robotic system for semi-autonomous exploration and baseline accessibility data...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded the University of Washington a $2,018,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop crowd-sourced and artificial intelligence tools for mapping, analyzing, and visualizing sidewalk accessibility data to support more inclusive cities. The four-year grant period runs from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2025. As part of the grant's goals to...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a cooperative agreement totaling $1,051,777 to Academic Web Pages, Inc. on August 1, 2026, under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) for SBIR Phase II development of an AI-enabled mentoring assistant. Academic Web Pages will develop and validate a proprietary AI system designed to augment human mentors and scale high-quality, personalized mentoring across educational and workforce development settings. The platform...
The National Science Foundation awarded a cooperative agreement totaling $1,184,700 to URL To IRL Inc. on August 1, 2026, under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop an automated digital navigability testing and remediation platform for web and mobile applications. The recipient will build a subscription-based software platform that automatically identifies usability and accessibility violations in web browsers at runtime, traces those violations to precise locations in source code, and generates automated corrective actions. The platform integrates artificial intelligence, automated keyboard navigation testing, virtual screen reader emulation, computer vision-based zoom testing, and cross-platform orchestration frameworks. URL To IRL Inc. targets initial commercialization toward ecommerce organizations and aims to identify at least 75 percent of World Wide Web Consortium WCAG compliance issues for web applications and 25 percent for mobile applications, while automatically remediating 50 percent of web violations and delivering the first automated fixes for mobile environments. The core technical advance is a novel static-dynamic re-association algorithm that maps runtime document object model violations to corresponding abstract syntax tree nodes in source code. By reducing compliance remediation timelines from six months to approximately two weeks at substantially lower cost than manual audits, the platform addresses a longstanding gap in digital accessibility automation. Period of performance runs from August 1, 2026, through July 31, 2028. Work is performed in New York, NY.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $1.2m | 7/24/26 |