The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $118,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) program to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech). The purpose of this grant is to develop key innovations in data quality assurance methodology for robotics anomaly detection problems based on AI-model-enhanced multimodal data fusion machine learning. The research aims to significantly lower...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) Federal Grant Program, provides $251,139.07 to Prospicience, LLC to conduct research to help the NIST Measurement Science for Manufacturing Robotics (MSMR) program develop a better understanding of machine learning (ML) tools and techniques for more efficient and effective robot programming. The key activities to be...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $283,500 Cooperative Agreement to Hummingbird Precision Machine CO. under the CHIPS Research and Development (CFDA 11.042) program. The purpose of this award is for Hummingbird Precision Machine CO. to develop a high-voltage in-situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM) specimen holder that enables electrical biasing experiments with high voltage biasing (up to 1,000V) while concurrently providing real-time imaging of...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards program (CFDA 11.609) is focused on improving the performance of a microfabricated optomechanical sensing platform for accelerometer operation. The $127,111 award to Theiss Research, a non-profit research organization, will fund activities to increase the dimensional stability, stiffness, and mechanical quality...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) program provides $148,944.59 in funding to Theiss Research, a non-profit research organization, to develop an innovative microscopy capability using Brillouin light scattering (BLS) and low-frequency Raman (LFR) imaging techniques. The project aims to apply these advanced techniques to investigate the mechanical...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) program provides $149,961.57 in funding to Crown Point Technologies LLC, a woman-owned and economically disadvantaged small business, to develop an open-standards, life cycle analysis-specific ontology extension for the Industrial Ontology Foundry core. The project will leverage biomanufacturing-specific ontology extensions and...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $289,999.65 Cooperative Agreement under the CHIPS Research and Development (CFDA 11.042) program to Tiptek, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, to create new gigahertz nanoprobes for semiconductor failure analysis. Through this funding, Tiptek will build ultra-high-speed nanoprobe prototypes capable of operating at gigahertz frequencies to detect "soft" electrical faults that are difficult to identify with...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award of $137,850 from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards program (CFDA 11.609) is to develop and test methods for determining the orientation of single molecules. The recipient, Theiss Research, a non-profit research organization, will construct a metrological optical microscope test stand and implement existing and novel techniques for precisely measuring the orientation of...
This $1,168,047 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program aims to develop a deeper understanding of the complex problems and needs that drive technology innovation. The project involves: Collecting comprehensive datasets on technical problems, solutions, and organizations across three selected domains; 2) Applying AI/machine learning techniques to analyze this data and identify predictive...
This Cooperative Agreement award 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 advance neutron-based measurements to support key U.S. industries, particularly in the areas of biotechnology and biomanufacturing. The $440,000 award to Carnegie Mellon University will fund the development of innovative sample preparation and analysis techniques, as well as critical...