Project Grant 017908996

The Town of Stratford was awarded a $119,048 Project Grant under the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Port Security Grant Program (PSGP, CFDA 97.056) with a period of performance from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027. The grant funding will support the town's efforts to enhance maritime security and protect critical transportation infrastructure from potential terrorist attacks, major disasters, and other emergencies. Typical funded projects under the PSGP include procurement...

This $174,978 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.212 - SBIR/STTR Program) supports Stratio Inc.'s development of a low-cost, high-sensitivity germanium-based short-wave infrared (SWIR) spectral sensor for monitoring soil organic carbon. Stratio is collaborating with Dr. Jonathan Sanderman of the Woodwell Climate Research Center to test the sensor prototype on 300 soil samples from California's Central Valley farms,...

This $249,924 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports the development of a long-lived, continuously operating seafloor geodesy reference station capable of operating in deep water. The grantee, Princeton University, will investigate using acoustic signals that only need to travel from the sea surface to the seafloor, removing the prior 3,000 meter depth limitation of existing seafloor geodesy techniques. This new approach involves...

Dexis Interactive Incorporated will receive $287,972 through a cooperative agreement award from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation to conduct an evaluation of the Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction's Global Threat Reduction (GTR) Program. The award, made under the Global Threat Reduction cooperative agreement program (CFDA 19.033), will support Dexis' evaluation of GTR programming in Azerbaijan from August 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023. The...

The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded Stratosolutions Inc. a $150,000 Project Grant under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program on September 1, 2021 to be completed by February 28, 2022. The grant funds Stratosolutions Inc. to integrate miniaturized dropsondes onto high altitude pseudo-satellite unmanned aerial vehicles to validate weather data collection capabilities not currently possible. Dropsondes are one of the only viable...

This $256,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports 2PI Inc. to develop a novel 3D sensor utilizing metasurface flat optics technology. Funded under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084), this Phase I Small Business Innovation Research award aims to demonstrate an ultra-compact 3D sensor prototype with enhanced performance over existing solutions. Specifically, 2PI will validate a design featuring panoramic vision, improved spatial resolution, and...

The federal Project Grant award of $7,980,000.00 from the Federal Highway Administration's Highway Research and Development Program (CFDA 20.200) is for the "Chicago Centralized Transit Signal Priority Project". The project aims to implement a centralized transit signal priority (TSP) system that utilizes live bus tracking data from the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) and the City of Chicago Department of Transportation's (CDOT) interconnected traffic signals. This will allow for the...

CRDF Global will organize and implement relevant engagements for the SP programs under a $5.2 million cooperative agreement award from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation. The award is part of the Department's Global Threat Reduction program (CFDA 19.033), which supports efforts to reduce threats posed by terrorist organizations or states of concern through cooperative threat reduction initiatives. Under this one-year cooperative agreement running...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) in Socorro, NM. The grant, titled "EMBRACE:SEED - Orbital Drag and Neutral Atmosphere Density from Assimilation of Satellite Global Positioning System (GPS) Navigation Data", aims to develop data assimilation algorithms that will enable estimation of atmospheric drag on satellites in low-Earth orbit...

Global Neighbor, Inc. was awarded a $174,999 project grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program/Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program to develop Directed Energy Seed Priming technology. The grant, effective July 1, 2023 through February 29, 2024, will fund the design, validation, and commercialization of a seed priming technique that uses directed energy to increase...