Project Grant 80NSSC22K1156

Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc. was awarded a $249,948 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop Distributed Sensor-Modulated Transistors for Hydro-Biogeochemical Monitoring. The Office of Science aims to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economic competitiveness through scientific discoveries and tools. This award will support Intelligent Optical...

Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc. was awarded a $199,967 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support real-time, onsite analysis of turbid chemical waste with TIR-Raman spectroscopy. The Office of Science aims to deliver scientific discoveries and tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy and economic security through its Financial Assistance Program. This particular...

This two-year, $255,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support the development of a new remote sensing technique for measuring seismic waves at Michigan Technological University. The researchers will enhance the Moiré technique, which images patterns from differential motion between grids, by placing one grid on a remote location using an unmanned aerial vehicle and the other within a base telescope. This will enable measurement of...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) received a $135,709 project grant from NASA's Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001) awarded on March 1, 2025, with a completion date of February 28, 2030. The award supports RSS in providing calibration and validation services for the MetOp-SG Microwave Imager (MWI) instrument on behalf of the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT). This work leverages RSS's core expertise in...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences provides $315,462 to Sri International for the CEDAR: The Coupled OH Meinel and O2 Atmospheric Band Nightglow Emissions project. The goal of this three-year award beginning September 1, 2021 is to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric sciences, as outlined in the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). Specifically, Sri International will...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award of $294,330 to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University will fund collaborative research on short-wave infrared (SWIR) imaging of auroral and airglow emissions. The key objectives are to: Investigate the role of Alfvén waves in generating auroral arcs and forms, as compared to monoenergetic particle influx. Measure metastable helium (He) emissions at 1083 nm to study exospheric density variability over...

Sri International received a $438,685 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (Geosciences Program, CFDA 47.050) on August 15, 2025, to support research on the O2(A-X) Infrared Atmospheric Band nightglow emission in Earth's upper atmosphere. The project, which will be completed by July 31, 2028, focuses on analyzing and modeling existing datasets from space-based observations conducted by satellites and sounding rockets to...

This $803,970 project grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure will support the development of a scalable real-time streaming analytics and machine learning framework for geoscience and hazards research. A collaboration between the University of Colorado, University of Oregon, Rutgers University, and UNAVCO will create a data framework to enable generalized real-time streaming analytics and machine learning using over 1,500 sensors from the EarthScope and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $274,996 to Opticalx, LLC, a small disadvantaged business located in Tracy, CA, to develop an optical solution for detecting and tracking small space debris. The project, titled "Space-Time Projection Optical Tomography (SPOT)", aims to leverage graphical processing unit (GPU) computing to enable the detection of space debris...

This $185,260 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program. The grant will fund the development and application of an advanced aerosol retrieval algorithm to improve the accuracy of retrieving aerosol and ocean properties over the Gulf of Mexico using data from the Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter #2 (HARP2) instrument. The project aims to expand the capability of the PACE-MAPP (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud,...