Cooperative Agreement 70NANB19H085

Techsolve, Inc. was awarded a $100,000 cooperative agreement from the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards program. The award will support the development of a procedure for generating hybrid numeric and text data for physics-based failure prognostics and health management (PHM) technology development and evaluation from October 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023. The hybrid data generation procedure...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards program (CFDA 11.609) provides $198,000.00 to Carnegie Mellon University to develop methods for the validation and deployment of AI-powered robots in manufacturing applications. The key products and services to be delivered include: Development of an AI robotic information system with a generative simulation framework to automatically...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The University of Utah, through its Office of Sponsored Projects, received a $210,000 cooperative agreement from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards program (CFDA 11.609) for the period January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2027. The award supports research extending existing artificial intelligence and computational modeling capabilities to advance additive manufacturing...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $233,426 cooperative agreement to PDES, Inc. under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) federal grant program. The purpose of this award is to extend the ISO 10303 (STEP) standards for model-based engineering, design, and manufacturing process planning to better support composites manufacturing. The key activities include: 1) integrating STEP Application Protocols 242 and 238 to enable...

This Project Grant award, valued at $225,509.00, was provided by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) Federal Grant Program. The purpose of this award is to develop novel motion planning and control algorithms that can optimize physical interactions for improved robotic manufacturing capabilities. Key activities include creating adaptive motion and task-level controllers that can compliantly execute...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $400,000 Cooperative Agreement to Criticality Sciences Inc. under the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach program (CFDA 11.620). The purpose of this 2-year project is for Criticality Sciences Inc. to validate data inputs and outputs and develop methods to use metrics to support resilience investment and financing for water and power global critical infrastructure. The expected outcomes aim to translate the...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $274,921 from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) Federal Grant Program is intended to develop a novel framework to quantify the impact of climate change on the risk of buildings and bridges prone to earthquakes and strong windstorms. The key activities include creating a framework with eight modules to assess climate change scenarios, hazard analysis, structural...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $259,848.73 Cooperative Agreement under the CHIPS Research and Development (CFDA 11.042) program to Primenano, Inc., a for-profit technology company, to develop an advanced prototype of a measurement technology for in-line metrology. The project aims to create a non-destructive, wafer-based measurement system with applications in materials purity, electrical properties, 3D device, and next-generation manufacturing. Primenano...

This $116,985 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) program supports the development of new methods for rapidly assessing the absolute accuracy of robotic manipulators within their workspaces. The key activities include: Developing new sampling methodologies to efficiently explore a robot's workspace and improve its position and orientation accuracies; determining the optimal...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $1,600,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (CFDA 11.611) program to the A.I. Philpott Manufacturing Extension Partnership, doing business as Genedge Alliance. The purpose of this 2-year award, effective September 1, 2023, is to expand the Medical Manufacturer MedAccred Accreditation Pathway (MedMMap) program to increase the resilience of the U.S. medical device supply chain. Key activities...