Project Grant 17DG11420004279

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service awarded a $225,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program (CFDA 10.001) to Technology Matters (TECH Matters), a nonprofit strategic technology organization. The funding supports the development of technologies for sustainable land management, monitoring, and research over the period of Aug 15, 2023 to Mar 31, 2027. Key project activities include developing sustainable...

FY 2026 Local Technical Assistance Program Grant Summary The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) received a $420,000 Project Grant award from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) under the Highway Training and Education program (CFDA 20.215) on August 13, 2025, with a completion date of August 13, 2028. This grant funds IDOT's Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP), which delivers technology transfer, training, and professional development services to local transportation...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award of $149,199, issued on May 1, 2024 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under its Space Technology program (CFDA 43.012), supports the "EVALUATION OF LUNAR MAPS AND TERRAN RELATIVE NAVIGATION ALGORITHMS" project. The awardee, Georgia TECH Research Corp, will conduct research and development activities related to lunar mapping and navigation algorithms to enable future NASA exploration missions. The project has a planned...

This $100,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the USGS Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808) supports Wageningen University in the Netherlands to enhance forest monitoring capabilities through advanced satellite technology. The key project activities include: Adapting deforestation alert methods to meet specific country needs and implementing them in open-source platforms like R, SEPAL, and Google Earth Engine to facilitate broader...

This $754,682 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will support the development of the Target and Observation Manager (TOM) Toolkit by Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, Inc. The TOM Toolkit is open source scientific project management software that will interface with discovery alert brokers and telescopes to enable researchers to...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded a $2,473,614.72 Cooperative Agreement under the National Geospatial Program: Building The National Map (CFDA 15.817) to the Indiana Office Of Technology (In.gov), a division of the Indiana State Budget Agency. The purpose of this 3-year award, running from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027, is to update the state of Indiana's LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) dataset. Specifically, the vendor will collect Quality Level 1 (QL-1) LiDAR data for the central...

Questek Innovations LLC received a $199,956 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 22, 2021 to develop a machine learning-based software package for reproducible data analysis for electron microscopy. The software package will support the Office of Science's mission to deliver scientific discoveries and major scientific tools that transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy and economic security. Specifically, the software will utilize...

This $599,801 federal Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to develop a robust scientific community and accompanying cyberinfrastructure (CI) for using ground-based imagery to study environmental processes. The key deliverables include: Open-source software (GaugeCam, GRIME-AI) that streamlines and documents reproducible workflows for capturing and analyzing ground-based imagery. Benchmark data products, including data from PhenoCam...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $254,707 will fund the development of machine learning and artificial intelligence methods to automate and accelerate the processing of interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) time series data. The grant was awarded to Geolabe LLC on March 1, 2023 under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). Specifically, the company will work to further automate key sections of the InSAR processing pipeline that...

Federal Grant Award Summary Michigan Technological University received a $173,742 Project Grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate under the Science program (CFDA 43.001), with an award date of July 8, 2025, and completion deadline of July 7, 2028. The project, titled "Dynamic Fuel and Soil Moisture for Next Generation LANDFIRE Fuels," will be conducted at the university's Houghton, Michigan facility. This three-year...