Project Grant 050105883

The City of El Paso de Robles was awarded a $3.5 million Project Grant from the Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration under the Economic Adjustment Assistance program on September 16, 2021. The grant will fund the installation of approximately 64,000 feet of new fiber optic cable infrastructure to expand broadband network coverage throughout Paso Robles, California. Specifically, the project entails laying approximately 11,500 feet of fiber optic cable through existing...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070), provides $500,000 to the University of California, Davis for research into efficient migration strategies from current single-band optical networks to next-generation multi-band optical networks. The award supports investigation of brownfield migration approaches from C-band to C+L bands, as well as...

Troy Cablevision Inc. was awarded a $52,610,443.35 Project Grant from the Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information Administration under the Middle Mile (Broadband) Grant Program (CFDA 11.033). The grant will fund the construction of 677.1 route miles of buried 144-count fiber optic cable network in 26 counties across Alabama. The key products and services include providing 1 gigabit symmetrical broadband access to anchor institutions within 1,000 feet of the network...

Atlantic Telephone Membership Corp, doing business as Focus Broadband, was awarded a $24.6 million Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service on June 16, 2022. The grant is part of the Distance Learning and Telemedicine Loans and Grants program and will support the delivery of broadband internet access to rural communities in Shallotte, North Carolina through June 2024. Focus Broadband will use the federal funding to expand its telecommunications infrastructure...

This $2,000,000 Project Grant was awarded on September 30, 2023 by the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration under the H-1B Job Training Grants program (CFDA 17.268). The purpose of the grant is to prepare a skilled workforce to improve and upgrade broadband infrastructure in 34 counties in Idaho, including many designated as rural areas. The funded activities will include pre-apprenticeship training to develop general broadband infrastructure skills, as well as a...

This $4,372,720.00 Cooperative Agreement, awarded on August 9, 2024 by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) under the CFDA 81.135 Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy program, is funding the development of an error-free splicing machine for medium voltage (5-46kV) power cables. The objective is to create an automated splicing solution to address the leading cause of medium voltage cable failures - operator workmanship errors when performing manual cable splicing. The project...

Zayo Group LLC received a $91.9 million project grant award from the Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information Administration under the Middle Mile (Broadband) Grant Program (CFDA 11.033). The grant will fund construction of a new 644-mile underground fiber route from Dallas to El Paso, Texas to expand broadband access in rural areas. Zayo will build the middle mile infrastructure to directly or indirectly connect 236 community anchor institutions, including five...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $599,996 to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) to enhance the understanding of physical models of optical elements and fiber systems, and improve optical networking technologies. The key goals are to: (1) implement optical phase conjugators in a field testbed and incorporate the physical layer model into network simulation; (2) implement...

The Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration (EDA) awarded a $6.33 million Project Grant to the Yadkin Valley Telephone Membership Corporation under the Economic Adjustment Assistance (EAA) program (CFDA 11.307). The grant funding will support the installation of a fiber optic cable network by Yadkin Valley Telephone to serve business corridors in Yadkin County, North Carolina. The new broadband infrastructure will allow businesses and industries in Yadkin County to recover...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service awarded a $4,504,550 Community Connect Grant (CFDA 10.863) to Premier Holdings, LLC (dba Premier Broadband, LLC) on September 27, 2024. The two-year grant project, set to be completed by September 27, 2026, will deploy broadband transmission services to expand high-speed internet infrastructure in rural, economically-challenged areas of Dallas, TX that currently lack adequate broadband access. The funding will be used to construct a...