Project Grant 2448869
- This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), will provide $500,000.00 to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2028. The project aims to improve the safety, reliability, and efficiency of air traffic management through a combination of artificial intelligence and formal methods. Key objectives include using voice recognition, predictive models, and...
- This Cooperative Agreement award of $999,919 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of an autonomous air traffic management (ATM) solution for uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs). The project aims to enable efficient, safe, and cost-effective deconfliction of dense UAV operations, addressing the growing need for robust ATM solutions to unlock the societal and economic potential of UAVs. The key...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $304,695 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to Digital Copilot, Inc. on June 1, 2025 for the development and validation of predictive algorithms to enhance aviation safety at airports without air traffic control services. This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project aims to create a low-cost, tablet-based system that leverages machine learning and aviation data analytics to...
- This $599,943 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) aims to develop techniques for more efficient and resilient real-time communications in critical cyber-physical systems like aircraft, automobiles, and industrial control networks. The key innovations include creating holistic models, algorithms, and software designs to achieve the scalability, adaptability, and resiliency...
- This EAGER (Early-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research) project, awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will identify gaps in translating traffic control theoretical research into practical traffic controls used in real-world settings. The $300,000 project, running from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026, will attempt to discover scientific reasons for the disconnect between academic traffic control research and the legacy theories and models...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $500,000 to Carnegie Mellon University to develop techniques for mitigating various risks in the control of autonomous systems operating in uncertain and interactive environments. The five-year project, awarded on July 1, 2025, aims to: 1) quantify long-term risks despite latent variables and limited data, and 2) develop efficient control techniques that provide long-term assurance...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $472,060 project grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of North Texas for the period of May 15, 2023 to April 30, 2026. The grant supports the development of an enhanced open networked airborne computing platform to facilitate design, implementation, and testing of integrated control, computing, communication, and networking capabilities for airborne applications. Key deliverables include...
- This Project Grant award, valued at $200,000.00 and awarded by the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), aims to develop a scalable framework for achieving robust and assured performance of autonomous agents, such as warehouse robots, delivery robots, drones, and robo-taxis, in real-world environments. The research will integrate formal methods, reinforcement learning, and multi-agent control theory to address critical...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $295,994 Project Grant to 4-D Avionic Systems LLC on January 1, 2022 for research under the SBIR PHASE I: 4D FLIGHTPATH-BASED AUTONOMOUS SEPARATION ASSURANCE SYSTEMS (ASAS) award. The research is being conducted under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program, which seeks to advance science and engineering research and innovation leading to breakthrough technologies as well as solutions to national challenges. Under this Project Grant, 4-D...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, with CFDA number 47.070, provides $453,372 to Syracuse University to develop autonomous operations of multi-UAV uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) for monitoring and tracking natural disaster events like wildfires and flooding. The key research goals are to design and implement robust motion estimation and control schemes that enable a team of UAVs to...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering) will provide $499,480 to Stony Brook University to conduct collaborative research to mitigate errors in air traffic control. The project aims to improve the safety, reliability, and efficiency of air traffic management through a multi-layered approach that integrates formal verification, robust speech understanding, and data-driven disruption analysis. Key objectives include developing predictive monitoring capabilities to detect safety violations, and leveraging machine learning models to extract semantic intent from voice data to support online reasoning and decision-making. Beyond air traffic control, the research framework can be applied to enhance other cyber-physical systems that combine human coordination with intelligent automation, such as firefighting operations, power grid resilience, and military operations. The award period is from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $0 | 8/5/25 | ||
| Not listed | $499.5k | 7/29/25 |