Project Grant 2606946
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $1,194,180 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The grant supports the Collaboration for Astronomy Signal Processing and Electronics Research (CASPER) - an international community developing open-source hardware and software tools for digital radio astronomical...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded $778,169 to the University of California, Berkeley on September 1, 2026, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to analyze three years of Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) observations collected in South Africa and develop artificial intelligence-based techniques for separating faint cosmological signals from radio interference and telescope systematics. The work focuses on 21...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded the University of California Santa Cruz $390,084 on September 1, 2026, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct multi-wavelength follow-up observations of fast radio bursts (FRBs) through the Fast and Fortunate FRB Follow-Up Collaboration (F4). The award funds comprehensive research addressing three core questions about FRB progenitors: dissecting local environments at 50-parsec...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded the President and Fellows of Harvard College $417,136 on December 15, 2025, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to map the distribution of baryons in the cosmic web using fast radio bursts detected by the Deep Synoptic Array. The research team will analyze a growing catalog of localized fast radio bursts (FRBs) discovered by the 110-antenna Deep Synoptic Array (DSA-110) located near Big Pine,...
- The National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to support observational studies of fast radio bursts and technosignatures with the Allen Telescope Array. The grant was awarded on January 15, 2022 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to further the progress of the mathematical and physical sciences and enhance understanding of major problems confronting the Nation. Funding will support observational...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $3,904,416 project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) to develop, fabricate, and install the optical alignment systems for the initial seven medium-sized telescopes for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory. This project supports U.S. CTA scientists in this work, which will be conducted at the telescope sites in La Palma, Spain, Paranal, Chile, and...
- This $586,924 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of scalable and efficient astronomical data processing software among distributed observatories. Funded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), the University of Virginia team will design system software focusing on performance measurement and analysis of data processing jobs run on the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Common Astronomy Software Applications and machine/deep learning...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $680,431 Project Grant to the University of California Santa Cruz under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports the FAST and Fortunate for FRB Follow-up (F4) research team to conduct follow-up observations of hundreds of Fast Radio Bursts across the sky. Specifically, the team will acquire, analyze, and disseminate deep, multi-band imaging and spectroscopy of FRB...
- This $312,341 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Astronomical Sciences, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), funds the development of new algorithms and hardware to detect, mitigate, and fuse radio frequency interference (RFI) for radio astronomy observations. The research project, led by West Virginia University Research Corporation, aims to address the challenge of man-made radio interference that can obscure faint astronomical...
- This $2,275,504 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports the development of open-source software infrastructure to enable advancements in multi-messenger astrophysics. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: Software to enable real-time querying and analysis of heterogeneous data streams from gravitational wave, neutrino, and electromagnetic observations to...
The National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded the University of California, Berkeley $1.19 million on September 1, 2026, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to advance CASPER (Collaboration for Astronomy Signal Processing and Electronics Research), an open-source hardware and software infrastructure for radio astronomy research. CASPER develops and maintains tools, libraries, and digital instrumentation that reduce the cost and accelerate the timeline for designing next-generation radio astronomy equipment. The infrastructure enables students and early-career scientists to gain hands-on instrument design experience using the same technologies deployed at major observatories, from small undergraduate experiments to facility-scale equipment for advanced telescopes. CASPER instrumentation has contributed to discoveries including exoplanets, the first images of a black hole via the NSF Event Horizon Telescope, pulsars, fast radio bursts, and gravitational wave detection through the NSF NANOGrav collaboration. The tools support research ranked highly by the National Academies' decadal review, including studies of early star and galaxy formation. Beyond astronomy, CASPER technologies are applied in brain research, genomics, radar, and magnetic field imaging. Work is performed in Berkeley, California over the three-year period ending August 31, 2029.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $1.2m | 8/4/26 |