This $9,960,960 Project Grant was awarded by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) under the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Grant Program (CFDA 11.038). The purpose is to develop a wideband, spectrally agile, and scalable radio frequency (RF) integrated circuit (RFIC) and transceiver for use in future commercial, defense, and research applications. Key activities include: 1) designing and fabricating a monolithic, spectrally agile RFIC, 2) developing...
The federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) under the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Grant Program (CFDA 11.038), aims to re-establish U.S. leadership in the Radio Unit (RU) market for Very-Large-Array (VLA) Massive Multiple Input-Multiple Output (MIMO) Open Radio Units (O-RUs). The $56,232,784.75 grant awarded to Abside Networks Inc. will fund the development and commercialization of two VLA O-RU models based...
This $2,000,000 Project Grant was awarded by the Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information Administration under the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Grant Program (CFDA 11.038). The purpose is to develop testing and evaluation procedures for open and interoperable solutions for next-generation (5G-Advanced and beyond) radio access network (RAN) components in the FR3 spectrum band, with a focus on shared and adversarial scenarios. Key activities include...
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) awarded a $47,952,833.22 Project Grant to Airspan Networks Inc. under the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Grant Program (CFDA 11.038). The purpose of this grant is to accelerate the development and expansion of Airspan's AIRU 2750 CAT A radio unit (RU) platform, a power-efficient, high-performing RU solution designed to quickly deliver multiple variants based on unique mobile network operator spectrum needs....
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $73,184,563.61, was provided by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) through the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Grant Program (CFDA 11.038). The purpose of the award is to support further development of the American, Ruggedized, Modular, O-RAN, Radio (ARMOR) platform, a variant of JMA Wireless' existing open radio unit (O-RU) technology currently at Technology Readiness Level 5 and Manufacturing...
This $9,964,628.46 Project Grant award from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) under the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Grant Program (CFDA 11.038) aims to advance the deployment of Massive Multiple Input, Multiple Output (MMIMO) Open Radio Units (O-RUs) into current and future wireless networks. The key activities funded through this award include studying network beamforming implementation, determining requirements for demonstrating network...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Program (CFDA 11.038) is providing $43,198,276.80 to Battelle Memorial Institute to develop an interoperable open radio access network (open RAN) radio unit (O-RU). The grant activities will support comprehensive interoperability testing to ensure seamless integration of the O-RU into the open RAN ecosystem, while addressing key challenges...
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) awarded a $10,118,112.09 Project Grant to Skylark Wireless, LLC under the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Grant Program (CFDA 11.038). The grant aims to integrate and scale a software-defined radio (SDR) transceiver architecture, Eridan's direct polar switch-mode transmitter in gallium nitride (GaN), within a 5G new radio (NR) massive multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) system prototype. This effort seeks to...
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), through the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Grant Program (CFDA 11.038), awarded a $3,387,426 project grant to Northeastern University. The funding will support the development and operationalization of AUTORAN, a new automated and continuous testing methodology for disaggregated radio access network (RAN) components. Key activities include extending private 5G continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD)...
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) awarded a $75,287,478 Project Grant under the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Grant Program (CFDA 11.038) to DISH Wireless L.L.C. as the lead of a consortium to establish the Open RAN Center for Integration and Deployment (ORCID). The 5-year grant will fund the creation of a "living laboratory" to evaluate open radio access network (RAN) components from multiple vendors, enabling faster testing,...