Project Grant 1939523

The National Science Foundation awarded a $275,000 SBIR Phase I project grant to Agile RF Systems LLC to develop and demonstrate a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radar processing module for significantly enhanced detection of severe weather events such as tornadoes, hail, and wind shear. During the 9-month project, the company will develop and simulate MIMO radar algorithms, implement them in an existing four-channel software defined radar, and compare the MIMO performance to single input...

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 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 SBIR Phase I Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.084 - NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships) provides $274,769 to Fringe Metrology LLC to develop an optical metrology system capable of rapidly and accurately measuring large antenna dishes up to 18 meters in diameter. The goal is to revolutionize how high-precision antenna dishes for satellite communications and radio astronomy are constructed by addressing a critical bottleneck in producing...

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 $360,000 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support the development of coherent processing techniques for passive localization of RF-silent mobile objects using bandwidth-rich wireless signals. The grantee, The Trustees of The Stevens Institute of Technology, will pursue three research thrusts. Thrust A will develop passive localization and mapping...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $274,993 to Amrf LLC, a small business located in San Jose, CA, focuses on the design and development of ultra-wideband beamforming integrated circuits. The project aims to establish the feasibility of using a novel radio-frequency fractional Hilbert transformation design theory to create wideband RF front-end systems with phased arrays, which have the potential to transform...

This $540,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports research from January 2023 through December 2025 to advance seamless coexistence of positioning and communication in 5G and beyond wireless systems. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the award to Georgia Tech Research Corporation will characterize tradeoffs between communication and positioning performance. It will also leverage collaborative positioning to design an...

Tiami LLC will develop a three-dimensional indoor tracking system utilizing digital television (DTV) stations as positioning beacons under a $197,362 cooperative agreement from the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology. The award is part of the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach program (CFDA 11.620) to evaluate and stimulate technological innovation. Specifically, Tiami will design signal processing algorithms and evaluate positioning...

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....