Project Grant 0822980

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), under the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach program (CFDA 11.620), provides $399,752 to Exabyte Inc., a small business technology company based in Walnut Creek, California. The Phase II project aims to develop digital data standards and open-source software to support semiconductor electronics research, specifically focused on advanced materials and measurements. The key...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $305,000 to Main Engineering LLC in Silver Spring, MD will fund the development of a high-precision time-to-digital converter (TDC) chip. The TDC chip will enable picosecond (trillionth of a second) timing accuracy for applications in nuclear physics research, light detection and ranging (LIDAR), and medical imaging. The project aims to develop a TDC chip with unique features,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) Project Grant award of $328,017 to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (Stony Brook University) supports the development of secure, efficient, and reliable long-term digital data storage systems. The project aims to create archival storage techniques that can protect data from threats like faster computers, quantum computing, and insider attacks over...

This SBIR Phase I project, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084), aims to develop an AI-powered platform that can extract and synthesize "dark data" in materials science into an accessible and actionable format. The $275,000 award to FUM Technologies, Inc., a small business located in Cambridge, MA, will fund the creation of a customizable, conversational digital expert system that leverages large...

This $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will support research to develop efficient ways to enlarge practical DNA storage capacity by integrating bio-computer technologies. Led by researchers at the University of Minnesota, the interdisciplinary team will investigate approaches to improve the scalability of DNA storage, including identifying more...

This $256,000 National Science Foundation Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships Project Grant to Itomography Corporation supports the development of dual-modality tomography core scanning technology for oil saturation estimation at wellsites. The Phase I project will demonstrate the feasibility of determining three-dimensional hydrocarbon distribution throughout large-diameter cores with high spatial resolution of 10 cubic millimeters, 95% accuracy, and a throughput of 1 meter per hour...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $274,880 to Sakura Software Solutions, LLC to develop a digital engineering tool for integrated software and hardware reliability analysis. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: The project aims to create an automated, cloud-based software-as-a-service platform that will provide collaborative, data-driven reliability...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $1,000,000 in funding to Ai Pow LLC, a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business located in College Station, TX. The project aims to develop a hardware-aware AutoML platform to enable efficient deployment of AI models on resource-constrained edge devices for real-time defect detection in...

This $1,600,000 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support the development of a new type of combinatorial memory and logic devices using magnetic spin waves on a silicon platform. The project, led by researchers at the University of California - Riverside, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and their collaborators, aims to create magnonic combinatorial devices that can store more information and process data...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, aims to develop a new data representation and storage system called LABIOS to address the challenges of storing and accessing massive and complex data sets in data-intensive computing. The $599,999 award to the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) will fund research to design and implement LABIOS, a...