Address three long-standing and difficult challenges in emergency environments by utilizing emerging 5G capabilities

Ended Cooperative Agreement Awarded Jun 1, 2022 Last action Mar 4, 2026

Award ID: 70NANB22H070
Recipient: George Mason University UEI EADLFP7Z72E5 Part of The George Mason University Instructional Foundation, Inc.
Awarding agency: National Institute of Standards and Technology Department of Commerce
Obligated: $2,934,922

Award facts

Assistance listing: 11.609 Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards
Completion date: Mar 4, 2026 Originally May 31, 2025
Funding: $1,734,972.38 Federal

$1,199,950.00 Non-federal
Place of performance: Fairfax, VA, USA

Award details come from USAspending.gov.

As the agency reported it.

Purpose: The purpose of this project is to address three long-standing and difficult challenges in emergency environments by utilizing emerging 5G capabilities. Long-standing challenges are 1) precise indoor positioning system, 2) reliable communication infrastructure, and 3) accurate mapping and visualization.
Activities: Design, prototype and demonstrate a highly precise 5G-based indoor positioning system (5G-IPS) using unmanned aerial vehicles (uavs) that can accurately, reliably, and quickly track firefighters.
Expected outcomes: The proposed 5G-IPS system will enable a new capability that allows much greater situation awareness of first responders that are in harm's way by knowing their precise location, collaborating in indoor map building, and communicating seamlessly among key first responders.
Intended beneficiaries: The intended beneficiaries are first responders.
Subrecipient activities: The recipient plans to subaward funds to virginia tech to leverage expertise with indoor positioning algorithm development, system architecture design and prototype/testbed development of the overall system.

Action	Federal	Non-federal	Date
Amendment	-$664,928	$0	Mar 4, 2026
Amendment	$0	$0	May 2, 2025
Amendment	$1,199,950	$0	Jun 2, 2022
Original award	$1,199,950	$1,199,950	Jun 2, 2022

Subrecipient	Amount	Awarded
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University In the joint GMU-VT project, VT would carry out the following major tasks. A. Development of Detailed System Architecture. This task describes the overall…	$293,897	May 24, 2024

70NANB22H070 was awarded to George Mason University by National Institute of Standards and Technology (Department of Commerce) on June 1, 2022.

$2,934,922 has been obligated on 70NANB22H070: $1,734,972 in federal funding and $1,199,950 in non-federal funding.

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