Cooperative Agreement FA70001620011

This $200,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research to develop advanced analog circuits and systems for dense, in-situ spectrum monitoring. The key products and services to be delivered include: (1) Ultra-efficient, single-shot analog cross-correlators capable of rapidly computing cross-correlations between input signals and template waveforms. This enables low-latency spectrum sensing...

This $550,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) supports the development and demonstration of a novel system to provide secure, unmanned, aerial vehicle guidance in limited connectivity environments. The project aims to develop secure communication protocols for robust and accurate vehicle position, navigation, and timing (PNT) when GPS or GNSS signals are compromised or unavailable. The key...

This $540,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports research from January 2023 through December 2025 to advance seamless coexistence of positioning and communication in 5G and beyond wireless systems. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the award to Georgia Tech Research Corporation will characterize tradeoffs between communication and positioning performance. It will also leverage collaborative positioning to design an...

This $360,000 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support the development of coherent processing techniques for passive localization of RF-silent mobile objects using bandwidth-rich wireless signals. The grantee, The Trustees of The Stevens Institute of Technology, will pursue three research thrusts. Thrust A will develop passive localization and mapping...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $200,001 to Duke University to develop innovative analog correlators and circuits-system co-design to enable dense and in-situ spectrum monitoring. The key products and services to be delivered include: Ultra-efficient, single-shot analog cross-correlators capable of rapidly computing cross-correlations between input signals and template waveforms to enable low-latency spectrum sensing....

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Cooperative Agreement award provides $976,584 to Starnav LLC, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business, to develop a ground network service that supports the use of existing and future low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite signals for positioning and timing. The project aims to create an alternative or complement to the Global Positioning System (GPS) that is resilient to jamming and hacking. The key...

This $185,857 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports fundamental research at Northeastern University to develop advanced spectrum sensing technologies. The project aims to create ultra-efficient analog cross-correlators (X-CORR) capable of ultra-low latency spectrum sensing, along with protocol-aware configuration to enable fine-grained, in-band spectrum monitoring. The research also targets optimized...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $380,000 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop advanced microelectronic hardware solutions that can enhance the performance and resilience of future wireless communication systems in congested spectrum environments. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: (1) a low-power, harmonic-resilient...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $199,971 to the University of Notre Dame to conduct collaborative research on enabling dense and in-situ spectrum monitoring. The key objectives are to develop ultra-efficient analog cross-correlators (X-CORR) for ultra-low latency spectrum sensing, design protocol-aware X-CORR configurations to enable fine-grained in-band spectrum sensing, and optimize the deployment of a dense...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support the development of compact, deployable, and self-reliant navigation and timekeeping systems using quantum emitters in group IV materials. The key research thrusts include: Engineering broadband and stable vector magnetometry using color centers in diamond for magnetic navigation, by enhancing sensitivity through photonic device integration and conducting simultaneous...