Cooperative Agreement FA87501920013

This $754,682 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will support the development of the Target and Observation Manager (TOM) Toolkit by Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, Inc. The TOM Toolkit is open source scientific project management software that will interface with discovery alert brokers and telescopes to enable researchers to...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808), supports the development and improvement of the AQUASAT dataset and codebase to enable remote sensing of water quality. The $249,917 award, granted on February 3, 2025, aims to expand AQUASAT's capacity as a benchmark dataset, improve data accessibility and usability, and enhance community engagement. Key activities include developing an R package to...

This $429,750 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support the development of a prototype platform, the Tephra Information Portal (TIP), to improve curation, integration, sharing, and discovery of Earth science data. The lead institution, Concord University, will collaborate with partners to build upon existing cyberinfrastructure and integrate geoinformatics resources to create a centralized catalog and access point for curated...

This $343,324 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Northeastern University to develop empirically validated perceptual tasks for data visualization. The goal is to refine and evaluate a model of the lower-level perceptual processes underlying higher-level data analysis and visualization tasks. Researchers will conduct qualitative studies to document how people decompose tasks and then empirically evaluate proposed perceptual subtasks like filtering images, judging...

Summary of Federal Cooperative Agreement Award The American College of Medical Toxicology, Inc. (ACMT) received a $400,000 cooperative agreement from the Office of the National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) under the Research and Data Analysis program (CFDA 95.007), awarded September 15, 2025, with completion targeted for September 14, 2026. The primary deliverable under this award is a comparative analysis of illicit drugs detected in the drug supply against those identified in biological...

Summary The University of Alaska Fairbanks received a $2.73 million Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808) to sustain seismic network operations across Alaska from November 1, 2025, through October 31, 2027. The award funds the maintenance, operations, and data collection activities of the Alaska Earthquake Center's (AEC) geophysical network, including long-standing AK-Network seismic sites, stations adopted through the...

This $165,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program supports the development of a novel adaptive data collection framework for automated post-disaster rapid damage assessment. The project at Arizona State University's Orspa division will create a Bayesian-based system that analyzes recent observations to dynamically update the trajectories of data collector agents toward areas with the greatest potential for information gain. This will...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Defense Sciences Office awarded a $250,000 cooperative agreement to the University of Maryland, College Park on September 30, 2025, with completion expected by September 29, 2027. Under the Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910), the University will develop a novel sensing methodology utilizing the Fast X-Ray Transform (FAXT) algorithm to enable rapid search and detection of very faint...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808), will provide $200,000 in funding to Colorado State University from August 2024 to August 2029. The award will support research and development of cloud engineering and networking solutions to improve the performance, security, and accessibility of web applications that inform natural resource management and adaptive decision-making. Key objectives include...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $367,616 to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) will fund research to establish a theoretical framework for evaluating and optimizing data acquisition in transportation networks. The research project aims to quantify the value of data from various sources to help transportation network operators, such as the California Department of Transportation, make more informed decisions about which data to...