Cooperative Agreement W911NF262A191

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Georgia Tech) to conduct collaborative research on reconfigurable intelligent electromagnetic surfaces using magnetically responsive soft materials. The goal is to develop a new approach to dynamically manipulate electromagnetic waves with a flat aperture, enabling reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) for 5G and beyond wireless systems in...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $260,000 to Michigan State University to develop a novel wearable distributed metasurface antenna array for reliable and secure wireless body area networks. The key research tasks include: Developing a wearable metasurface transmission line to reduce on-body signal path loss and enable energy-efficient, secure communication between body-worn antennas. Investigating a coordinated wearable...

This $392,098 National Science Foundation award under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program will fund research to establish new theoretical foundations for active metamaterial transmission lines (MTLs) that can control the amplitude and phase of electromagnetic waves. The goal is to develop transformative transmission line technology to address increasing demands for enhanced data capacity, higher spatial resolution, multi-functionality, and smaller circuit and system dimensions in microwave...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering Directorate ($400,000) supports the development of smart radio environments using reconfigurable intelligent surfaces to improve millimeter-wave communications. Specifically, the University of Utah will create a modular radio hardware prototype capable of precise phase control at millimeter-wave frequencies. They will also develop advanced signal processing algorithms for practical reconfigurable intelligent surface-aided...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award to the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) will fund the design, implementation, and evaluation of a practical electromagnetic (EM) sensing system called EMRADAR. This system will enable research on EM side-channel attacks and defenses for Internet of Things (IoT) devices in realistic environments. The $197,463 award from the NSF's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems will...

The National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded the University of Texas at Dallas $506,406 on October 1, 2026, to develop a digital-twin-accelerated inverse metasurface (DT-AIM) optimization framework under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The project integrates advanced electromagnetic simulation, reduced-order modeling, machine learning, and hardware-in-the-loop validation to accelerate the design of large, reconfigurable...

This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program provides $100,333 to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to develop smart surfaces capable of adaptively modifying wireless channels. The goal is to unlock the full potential of wireless networks by manipulating the propagation environment to achieve greater spatial multiplexing and coverage for massive numbers of devices and exponential growth in data...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program awarded Arizona State University $213,831 under a Project Grant to develop a new type of Hybrid Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (HRIS) technology. The HRIS will be designed to sense incident waves, deduce information about user and transmitter directions, and reconfigure its reflection patterns accordingly. This will enable the implementation of a smart and autonomous wireless propagation environment that can redirect signals, mitigate...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) provides $276,000 to Astrabeam LLC and Penn State University to develop a D-band, silicon-based phased array radar front-end module for smart sensing applications. Specifically, the awardees will design, model, simulate, and demonstrate a prototype radar module operating beyond 100 GHz with wide bandwidth. The scalable, area-efficient front-end architecture and phased array...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) EAGER grant to Northeastern University provides $229,680 from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2025 to evaluate the feasibility of a soft and compressible electronic skin (e-skin) device that integrates a touch sensor with a soft electromagnetic coil-based flexible actuator. The goal is to replicate natural skin characteristics, including receptors embedded in soft tissue tightly coupled with muscles, to enable...