Project Grant 2029283

This federal Project Grant award of $976,496 from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities through the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) will fund the creation of a 400 gigabit per second network connection from the University of Maine to the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center and the Northern Crossroads Gigapop. Intermediate add/drop support will also be provided in Keene, New Hampshire and Portland, Maine to interconnect other northern...

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...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) is focused on developing a cross-layer monitoring and analytics framework to enable application-aware root-cause analysis for service disruptions. The $600,000 award to the University of California, Davis will fund the establishment of an optical testbed, the implementation of network layer integration and monitoring, and the...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The goal of the 3-year project is to develop an energy-efficient coherent optical interconnect architecture that can enable dramatic increases in datacenter and high-performance computing bandwidth-density and energy-efficiency. The key technical innovations...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $1,000,000 to Iris Light Technologies Inc., a small business in Chicago, Illinois, to develop foundry-scale production of on-chip silicon photonic light emitters enabled by printed photonic ink. The project aims to create black phosphorus-based inks that can be integrated directly onto silicon photonic chips to produce on-chip lasers. This...

The National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to the University of Montana to support a planning project titled "CC* CIRA: Improving Cyberinfrastructure to Advance Research and Education (ICARE+) Addressing Montana's Digital Equity Gap." This 2-year project, running from August 15, 2023 to July 31, 2025, brings together the University of Montana,...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) provides $300,000 to support the Extreme Light in Intensity, Time and Space (X-LITES) Network. The X-LITES Network builds international collaboration at the frontiers of laser science and applications, leveraging prior U.S. and European investments in extreme light research facilities. Key activities include hosting virtual seminars and workshops, conducting...

This $1,250,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) supports the development of a chip technology for cheaper and easier photonic device manufacturing. The project aims to enable high-efficiency, low-cost, and high-volume packaging of optical devices by Photonect Interconnect Solutions Inc., a technology-focused small business located in Rochester, New York. Key objectives include creating a...

This Project Grant award from the Department of the Army Research Office (CFDA 12.431 - Basic Scientific Research) provides $200,000.00 to The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees to develop a roadmap for optical power beaming through free space and optical fiber. The objective is to expand fundamental knowledge and technological capabilities in this strategic research area critical to national security. As a sub-award under this grant, Lasermotive, Inc. (doing business as...

This $337,363 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, with an award date of April 1, 2024, supports the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst in providing a high-speed, reliable network connection between the university's computing resources and major national/international research networks. The goal is to enable UMass researchers to participate in big data and scientific computing projects that rely on...