Cooperative Agreement FL2017031

The National Science Foundation awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to Villanova University under the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education (STEM Education) program (CFDA 47.076) to enhance the augmented reality sandbox simulation tool and evaluate its effectiveness in supporting student learning outcomes. The grant period runs from February 15, 2022 through January 31, 2025. Under the award, Villanova University will extend the AR sandbox's existing GPU-based water flow...

This $807,744 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, with joint support from the Division of Research, Innovation, Synergies, and Education (RISE) and the Division of Ocean Sciences (OCE), aims to enhance community access to high-fidelity ocean modeling and observational capabilities. The award will fund the development of software infrastructure to enable rapid configuration, deployment, and analysis of the Modular Ocean Model...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) provides $417,746 to Texas A&M University to develop the SANDPIPER community toolchain. The key products and services delivered under this 4-year project include: Designing and implementing an affordable, open-source hardware and firmware system for geomorphology data acquisition in laboratories worldwide. Establishing a community-backed data standard...

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) awarded Solid Gear Inc. a $30,806,929.82 Project Grant under the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Grant Program (CFDA 11.038). Through this grant, Solid Gear will develop a multi-operator radio access network (MORAN)-capable O-RAN radio that is embedded in a distributed antenna system (DAS). This will allow direct digital O-RAN interfaces with multiple mobile network operator (MNO) O-distributed units (DUs) for...

This $211,135 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research to expand and improve the use of stochastic simulation models for optimal decision-making under uncertainty. The award, with a performance period from July 2024 to June 2027, will enhance the SIMOPT testbed of simulation optimization problems and solvers, making it more powerful, widely applicable, and aligned...

This $413,487 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of the "SANDPIPER" community toolchain to advance geomorphology research from data acquisition to analysis. The key objectives are to: Design and implement an affordable, open-source hardware-firmware system for geomorphological data acquisition in labs globally. Establish a community-backed data standard to...

This federal Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $205,755.00 to Continuum Dynamics Inc., a small business based in Trenton, NJ, to develop a modular multiphysics simulation platform for aerosol and particulate dispersion modeling. The project aims to advance scientific understanding and technological capabilities in areas such as computational fluid dynamics, aerodynamic modeling, and performance optimization...

Quantum Simulation Technologies Inc., doing business as Qsimulate, was awarded a $250,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 14, 2022 to develop cloud-based low-scaling quantum chemistry simulations for materials. The grant is being carried out under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049), which aims to deliver scientific discoveries and tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy and economic security....

This $428,573 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports the development of the Multiscale Polymer Toolkit (MUPT) - an open-source software suite that enables reproducible and extensible computational research on reacting polymer materials. The project aims to create tools for interoperability between major polymer simulation engines, as well as workflows, documentation, and...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) provides $529,482 to the University of Rochester to develop the theory and simulation of the emergent properties of matter when driven or "dressed" by lasers. The project aims to: (a) Develop a Floquet theory and simulation scheme to model the optical absorption properties of realistic laser-dressed solids, in order to make experimentally testable predictions...