Project Grant 1615309

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $199,876 to Skutek Instrumentation, a woman-owned small business, to develop efficient high-performance data transfer solutions over the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) for massive-scale data analytics. The project aims to advance data acquisition and processing capabilities to support scientific research and discovery aligned with national energy, economic, and...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant of $275,000 awarded to Lumoniq Inc. supports research and development of a nanoscale hybrid optical interconnect platform to revolutionize internal computer chip connections. The project aims to commercialize a new approach called Coupled Hybrid Plasmonics (CHP) that uses the interaction of light and metals to enable high-bandwidth, low-power,...

This $296,000 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program aims to accelerate data-intensive computing through a "Real-Time Smart Data Lake." The awardee, Airmettle Inc., will develop technology to enable large JSON data objects to be processed directly within a software-defined data lake storage solution. This will allow analytic client applications to efficiently retrieve...

This SBIR Phase I Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $275,000 in funding to Radius Technology Systems, Inc. to develop a high-throughput smart contract platform capable of processing over 1 million transactions per second. The key innovation is the ability to execute smart contract transactions in parallel without needing to serialize a global order, enabling horizontal scalability. The platform...

This $274,120 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of an "optical orbital hotspot network" to enhance satellite data collection and utilization. The award recipient, Spacerake, Inc., will focus on creating multi-access laser communication terminals and advancing orbital optical hotspot technology. This...

Avicenatech Corporation received a $255,612 Small Business Innovation Research Phase I Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to develop ultra-high throughput parallel optical links for chip-to-chip interconnects. The grant period runs from February 1, 2021 through July 31, 2021. Under the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA #47.041), which seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering innovation and education, Avicenatech will use the funding to advance...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded a $599,276 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York, doing business as Sponsored Projects Services, from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026. The grant supports the development of novel application-layer models, algorithms, and tools to enable energy-efficient and high-performance data...

This SBIR Phase I project, awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.084 - NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships), aims to develop massively parallel protocols for software-based wireless systems. The $273,383 award, granted on September 15, 2023, will enable Lutris, Inc., the for-profit awardee, to demonstrate the feasibility of using commodity computing hardware and specially designed software to implement radio processing tasks at high speed. This approach has the potential...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $1,000,000 to Semergytech, Inc., a small business based in Arlington, Texas. The funding supports the development and commercialization of high-speed, high-power, single-mode photonic crystal surface emitting lasers (PCSELs). The project aims to address current limitations in semiconductor laser technologies by creating a disruptive PCSEL...

This $275,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) supports Prhobe Inc.'s development of an innovative logistics tracking system. The project aims to revolutionize logistics and transport management by providing real-time visibility at the serial number level through the integration of wireless technologies including RFID, UWB, and cellular. The system will attach to...