Block Grant 21PLSDCSC6

This $600,000 Project Grant award was issued on October 1, 2024 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070). The objective of this 4-year project is to develop a generative AI-based framework for modeling and predicting wireless channel characteristics in the 6G network upper mid-band (7-24 GHz) spectrum. The proposed research aims to overcome the limitations of current channel estimation...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) provides $599,943 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to advance the concept of local 6G connectivity. The project focuses on developing a novel neural network-based method for wireless channel representation to enable controllable, resilient, and secure local 6G networks that leverage reflective intelligent surface technology. Key...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program grant (CFDA 47.070) provides $172,848 to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines to investigate fundamental design trade-offs in a retro-reflective uplink enabled integrated sensing and communication with optical wireless (ISAC-OW) system for large-scale networks. The project will develop a cross-domain framework for the integrated design of efficient and scalable retro-reflective...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) Project Grant award of $552,893 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) will fund research to enable natively resilient 6G mobile networks. The project aims to leverage the equivalence, or "fungibility," between different network resources, components, and functions to improve the resilience of 6G networks against attacks and failures....

The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded North Carolina State University a $601,966 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for the period of January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2024. The grant funds research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SATC: CORE: MEDIUM: ENABLING PRACTICALLY SECURE CELLULAR INFRASTRUCTURE" which aims to advance the development and use of research cyberinfrastructure...

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) was awarded a $308,973.00 Cooperative Agreement from the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) under the Defense Security Cooperation University (DSCU) - Sponsored Research program (CFDA 12.024). The project is titled "U.S. Security Cooperation in a Contested Environment" and has an award date of September 30, 2024 with an ultimate completion date of October 31, 2025. The purpose of this Cooperative Agreement is to fund...

This $190,020 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program will support research to create resilient, large-scale cyber-physical systems (CPS), with a focus on connected and autonomous transportation systems (CATS). The research project, titled "CHORUS: Resilient Distributed CPS Through Rational and Dynamic Decision-Making Among Multiple Stakeholders," aims to develop rigorous, scientific...

This $600,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, will fund research at Duke University to develop new approaches for enabling predictable wireless communication and radar sensing for 6G wireless technology. The key research thrusts include: 1) designing modulation schemes to simplify prediction of the wireless input-output relationship, 2) developing signal processing filters in the...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, funded through the U.S. Department of State's Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040), provides $250,000 to the Center for Strategic and International Studies Inc. (CSIS) to manage all aspects of the Young Pacific Leaders Regional Workshop on Security. The 4-day virtual workshop, mentorship program, publications, and surveys aim to advance U.S. foreign policy goals, strengthen bilateral relationships,...

This $125,540 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will support research to develop techniques that enable emerging cellular technologies like 5G/6G to meet the stringent connectivity requirements of innovative societal applications such as augmented reality, telerobotics, and Internet-of-Things. The key focus is on advancing Radio Access Network (RAN) slicing, a 5G feature that allows...