Cooperative Agreement 2014ST108FRG004

This $893,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Congressionally Recommended Awards program (CFDA 16.753) will enable Beaufort County, North Carolina to upgrade its emergency communication systems. The funding will be used to procure modern P-25-compliant portable radios, which will improve interoperability between the county's outdated analog VHF radio system and the state's VIPER 800MHz systems. This enhancement will enable seamless...

This $2,744,368 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics under the National Criminal History Improvement Program (CFDA 16.554) supports several criminal justice technology and data integration projects for the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD). Key project areas include: 1) Expanding network access control (NAC) and multi-factor authentication (MFA) to meet CJIS/NIST800-53 security requirements; 2) Implementing a police...

This $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of an Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) wireless testbed and training curriculum at the Stevens Institute of Technology. The key products and services include: 1) Extending the abilities of wireless professionals by providing public and remote access to an O-RAN-based wireless cyberinfrastructure, which integrates...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate provides $289,839 to The Trustees of Columbia University in New York, New York for a collaborative research project titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SII-NRDZ:SPECTRUM SHARING VIA CONSUMPTION MODELS AND TELEMETRY - PROTOTYPING AND FIELD TESTING IN AN URBAN FCC INNOVATION ZONE." The project period runs from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2025. The award supports the development...

This $2,000,000 Project Grant was awarded by the Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information Administration under the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Grant Program (CFDA 11.038). The purpose is to develop testing and evaluation procedures for open and interoperable solutions for next-generation (5G-Advanced and beyond) radio access network (RAN) components in the FR3 spectrum band, with a focus on shared and adversarial scenarios. Key activities include...

The California Police Chiefs Association (CPCA) was awarded a $500,000 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710). The funding will be used to implement a comprehensive statewide accreditation program for law enforcement agencies across California. The goal is to elevate the professionalism, accountability, and effectiveness of law...

This $352,360 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations supports the development of an "Adaptive Multi-Tiered, Multi-Task Base Station Infrastructure for Communication-Denied Environments" at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. The project aims to create a multi-tiered infrastructure utilizing autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and autonomous vehicles as mobile base stations to provide communication...

This Project Grant award of $924,053.50 from the U.S. Department of State's Cyberspace and Digital Policy program (CFDA 19.665) is designed to enhance the capacities of ESCAP member states to provide robust governance, regulatory, and policy environments related to open radio access network (Open RAN) and other emerging technologies. The grant, which runs from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027, will be executed by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN...

This Project Grant award of $550,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development and validation of a distributed, data-driven architecture for dynamic spectrum management among heterogeneous wireless systems. The goal is to overcome the limitations of centralized spectrum management and increase spectrum efficiency. The project focuses on designing protocols and algorithms for a Distributed...

The U.S. Department of State, through its Cyberspace and Digital Policy program (CFDA 19.665), has awarded a $300,000 Cooperative Agreement to ORPC, LLC to provide technical assistance and develop policy roadmaps to help drive countries up the Open RAN adoption curve. The award will create an educational portal and global tracker to serve as a resource for beneficiary countries. This aligns with the program's focus on promoting secure, diverse, and resilient information and communications...