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The $73,184,563.61 federal Project Grant award from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) under the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Grant Program (CFDA 11.038) supports further development of JMA Wireless' American, Ruggedized, Modular, O-RAN, Radio (ARMOR) platform. The 18-month effort aims to advance the ARMOR platform's open radio unit (O-RU) variants from Technology Readiness Level 5 to 7 and Manufacturing Readiness Level 4 to 8. This will...

This $2,159,268 Project Grant awarded by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) under the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Grant Program (CFDA 11.038) supports Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) in developing a new neural network-based methodology to optimize testing and performance evaluation for Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) systems. The key activities include: Analyzing the statistical relationships between...

Outreach Aid To The Americas Inc. was awarded a $397,196 Project Grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development on September 30, 2022 to support emergency food assistance programs in Honduras through March 30, 2024. The grant funding will support the Food for Peace Emergency Program (CFDA #98.008), which aims to improve access, availability and utilization of food in food insecure environments abroad through emergency response programs. Specifically, Outreach Aid To The Americas Inc....

This Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) will support the development of tow-steered thin-ply deployable thermoplastic composite booms for smallsat antenna applications. The $100,000 award, with a performance period from January 20, 2025 to January 19, 2028, will be executed by the Old Dominion University Research Foundation (Odurf), a non-profit organization affiliated with Old Dominion University. The...

The University of New South Wales received a $223,350 project grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to support basic research activities under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) from February 1, 2022 through January 31, 2024. The grant funds alternative approaches to investigating stability and transition as proposed in the grantee's September 9, 2021 application titled "BASIC RESEARCH FOR AOARD PROPOSAL 21IOA136 'AN...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under the Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910) is providing $1,976,602 in funding to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation to advance the state of the art in ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor materials and devices based on aluminum nitride (AlN). The key objectives are to develop epitaxy techniques for achieving high n-type and p-type carrier concentrations in AlN, enable...

Xona Space Systems Inc. will receive $999,995 under a Cooperative Agreement awarded on July 15, 2022 by the National Science Foundation to develop space-based atmospheric and integrity monitoring technologies for precision global positioning, navigation, and timing services. The two-year award made through the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program will support the company's efforts to map the Earth's troposphere and ionosphere using a small satellite constellation. This work...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) provides $979,625 to US Air TECH Corp. to develop a satellite communication (SATCOM) terminal with an innovative Luneburg lens antenna. The project aims to create a compact, high-bandwidth SATCOM system suitable for fixed and mobile platforms, including residences, aerial vehicles, and maritime craft. The technical goals include achieving 100x...

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) awarded a $1,731,182.34 Project Grant to Michigan State University (MSU) under the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Grant Program (CFDA 11.038). The grant funds MSU's research and development of AI-assisted methods for testing the interoperability, performance, and security of 5G Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) components, including radio units (RUs), distributed units (DUs), and central units (CUs). The key...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) under the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Grant Program (CFDA 11.038) provides $43,198,276.80 to Battelle Memorial Institute to develop an advanced interoperable open RAN radio unit (O-RU). The O-RU is designed to deliver improved performance and significantly reduce the total cost of ownership for mobile network operators, neutral hosts, and private network providers...