This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.084 - Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program) provides $1,000,000 in funding to Tfwireless Inc. to develop a novel physical layer rateless codec technology for proximity space links. The project aims to create a high-throughput, low-latency, and energy-efficient wireless communications solution targeting the space communications market, including commercial and government space programs. Key innovations...
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...
This $750,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) funds research and development of a universal radio adapter to enable seamless and secure wireless connectivity for U.S. Department of Defense devices through non-cooperative 5G networks. Florida International University leads a consortium that includes Florida Atlantic University, Virginia Tech, and Pqsecure Technologies LLC to create a waveform-agnostic radio...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $299,503 Project Grant to The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program (CFDA 47.084) to support research titled "PFI-TT: Acousto-Electric Semiconductor Amplifiers to Expand Wireless Connectivity to a Larger Population of End-Users." The award period runs from August 1, 2021 through January 31, 2024. Under this award, the University of Central Florida will...
The National Science Foundation awarded $270,928 under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program (CFDA 47.084) to Beamlink, Inc. of Pasadena, California. The project grant will support the development of small, portable cellular base stations to provide connectivity in disaster zones and hard to reach areas. Specifically, the funding will allow Beamlink to research and implement a base station utilizing 2G and 2.5G radio for communicating with high densities of cell...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant under the Engineering Research and Innovation (ERI) program (CFDA 47.041) totaling $198,512 to the California State University Fresno Foundation. The grant supports the development of a novel co-time, co-frequency full-duplex transceiver system for wireless network-on-chip (WiNoC) applications. The key research tasks include designing energy- and area-efficient transmitter and receiver circuits with built-in analog and digital...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $274,993 to Amrf LLC to design and develop wideband beamforming integrated circuits for radio-frequency (RF) front-end systems. The project aims to establish the feasibility of an innovative RF fractional Hilbert transformation design theory to create ultra-wideband beamforming circuits, which have the potential to transform wireless...
The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $375,000 Project Grant to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (doing business as Tees) to develop highly efficient CMOS transmitters for emerging broadband wireless communication systems. The three-year award period runs from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024 under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The NSF Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $265,998 supports research conducted by Boston University, Northeastern University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop new methods for improving communication performance in shared, congested, and contested wireless spectrum bands. The key focus is leveraging the structured nature of interference, rather than treating it as indistinguishable noise, to enhance reliability and...
This STTR Phase I Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) focuses on the commercialization of a novel tunable resonator circuit technique for radio frequency integrated circuits. The $275,000 project, awarded to the small business Echoics, will develop a prototype transceiver integrated circuit with wide frequency flexibility. This technology aims to improve the quality, reliability, and coverage of...