Project Grant 2549352
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to Georgia Tech Research Corporation to develop tools and models to guide the design of applications and network algorithms for low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite networks. The 3-year project aims to improve understanding of the unique properties and variability of LEO satellite networks, and leverage this knowledge to enhance network protocols...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $749,999 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to develop efficient schemes for spectrum coexistence between satellite and terrestrial wireless communications systems. The 3-year project, titled "SWIFT-SAT: Efficient and On-Demand Spectrum Coexistence for Satellite-Terrestrial Systems", aims to address key technical...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded a $247,971 Project Grant to Colorado State University to conduct collaborative research on "SWIFT-SAT: DASS: Dynamically Adjustable Spectrum Sharing Between Ground Communication Networks and Earth Exploration Satellite Systems Above 100 GHz." The 3-year project, which commenced on January 1, 2024, aims to develop techniques for more flexible spectrum sharing and coexistence between...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded the University of California, Los Angeles $260,000 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop methods for measuring and characterizing low earth orbit satellite internet performance on maritime vessels at sea. The project funds three research aims. First, it develops scalable methods to discover and attribute internet-exposed LEO satellite...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station $282,816 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for collaborative research to design terahertz CMOS transceiver technology for next-generation wireless systems. The award funds development of an AI-enhanced, reconfigurable silicon BiCMOS transceiver panel operating at 300 gigahertz that performs...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station $250,000 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for collaborative research on proactive wireless network control in future broadband systems. The project develops framework and artificial intelligence models for optimal resource management in frequency range 3 (FR3) upper mid-band wireless...
- This $728,637 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to measure, model, and develop effective mitigation strategies for interference from terrestrial cellular systems, such as 5G, to satellite communications. The key objectives are to quantify the impact of "upscattering" of terrestrial cellular signals by buildings, trees, and other obstacles, and use this data to develop methods to reduce interference...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) awarded a $285,000 EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) Project Grant to Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station on October 1, 2025, for a two-year performance period concluding September 30, 2027. The project delivers methodology and tools to enable satellite communication systems to transition from congested sub-10 GHz frequency bands to...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi $365,996 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop and evaluate an air-to-ground autonomous vehicle network integrating stacked intelligent metasurface (SIM) antennas with unmanned aerial vehicles as mobile communication and computing platforms. The research addresses latency, reliability, and...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded Massachusetts Institute of Technology $216,000 on October 1, 2026, to conduct collaborative research on management and control methods for next-generation wireless networks that share both infrastructure and spectrum under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). MIT is developing a sharing-native network framework enabling multiple service providers and infrastructure...
The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded the University of Texas at Austin $700,000 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop spectrum coexistence and integration principles for mega low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellite networks and direct-to-handset satellite services. The project organizes research into two technical thrusts. Thrust 1 establishes fundamental principles for determining how many independent LEO constellations and satellites per constellation can coexist in shared radio frequency spectrum before performance degrades, analyzing both non-cooperative and cooperative satellite-to-terminal association strategies, deriving coexistence feasibility frontiers, and examining security risks from inter-constellation information sharing. Thrust 2 addresses integration of satellite networks with terrestrial cellular networks to serve smartphones directly from space, developing new fundamentals for maximizing area spectral efficiency at rural-to-urban transition boundaries and proposing an Integrated Terrestrial-Satellite Network Link to enable tight synchronization, coordinated scheduling, and resilient GPS backup. Both thrusts will be validated through high-fidelity open-source simulation and hardware-in-the-loop experimentation. The award period runs from October 1, 2026, to September 30, 2029, with work performed in Austin, Texas.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $700.0k | 7/29/26 |