Project Grant 1758752

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I award, under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, provides $274,944 to Uninet LLC to explore the feasibility of extending 5G software-defined networking and virtual network slicing technologies to non-terrestrial satellite constellations. The project aims to develop more efficient networking solutions to support growing demand for satellite internet services, addressing...

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...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) provides $979,625 to US Air TECH Corp. to develop a satellite communication (SATCOM) terminal with an innovative Luneburg lens antenna. The project aims to create a compact, high-bandwidth SATCOM system suitable for fixed and mobile platforms, including residences, aerial vehicles, and maritime craft. The technical goals include achieving 100x...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project, funded through the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084), aims to extend the range of on-hand wireless communications devices to austere and remote environments. The $246,858 award to Set Point Solutions LLC, a HUBZone certified small business, will enable the development of the Propeller-enabled Projectile Assisted Repeater/Relay of Transmissions (PARROT) technology....

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project award to OSO Semiconductor Inc., a minority-owned small business, will develop a new phased array communication technology to achieve lower power consumption, smaller form factors, and more affordable price targets. The $274,992 grant, awarded on December 15, 2023, will fund the development and testing of an ultra-low loss beamforming circuit that can be integrated into a unique low-power phased...

This SBIR Phase I Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, provides $275,000 in funding to Tiami LLC, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business, to design and prototype an intelligent 5G wireless repeater. This effort aims to enable pervasive, high-throughput mobile broadband connectivity across underserved urban and rural areas, addressing shortcomings in current 5G deployments. The...

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...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $275,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to Forward Edge AI Inc., a minority-owned small disadvantaged business. The grant funds the development of technology to enhance cybersecurity in the space economy, focusing on creating machine learning algorithms to differentiate between cyber attacks and natural anomalies on small satellites. This project...

This Project Grant award of $200,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research to develop a novel hardware-software co-design communication framework that enables parallel communication and improved spectrum utilization and power efficiency for heterogeneous Internet of Things (IoT) devices operating on the crowded 2.4GHz unlicensed spectrum. The framework will leverage software-defined radios (SDRs)...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $295,694 Project Grant to Wilo Networks Inc. of Santa Clara, California under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). The grant will support the company's "SBIR PHASE I: LOW-COST COMMUNICATION, SENSING, AND PREDICTION FOR PRECISION AGRICULTURE" project from September 1, 2021 through February 28, 2023. Under this award, Wilo Networks will develop low-cost communication, sensing, and predictive technologies to...