Project Grant 5110R16008

This $190,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will fund research into spectrum sharing techniques from January 2023 through December 2025. The award supports development of a Zone Management System prototype to enable spectrum sharing across disparate wireless services, such as communications, scientific sensing, and radar systems, within an Innovation Zone...

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 Recon RF, Inc. a $9,463,451.89 Project Grant under the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Grant Program (CFDA 11.038). The purpose of this 5-year grant, which runs from February 2025 to January 2030, is for Recon RF to conduct advanced R&D to develop ultra-efficient front-end modules (FEMs) for next-generation 5G and 6G open radio units (O-RUs). The key activities involve innovative high-efficiency FEM...

This Project Grant award of $47,952,833.22 from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Grant Program (CFDA 11.038) was provided to Airspan Networks Inc. to accelerate the development of the AIRU 2750 CAT A radio unit (RU) platform. The key activities to be performed under this grant include building open-RU products based on a system-on-a-chip (SoC) developed by the U.S.-based supplier MaxLinear. The objectives are...

This Project Grant award of $380,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop advanced radio frequency (RF) and millimeter-wave electronics for next-generation wireless networks. The key objectives are to create highly selective and interference-resilient software-defined radio (SDR) front-ends that can quickly adapt to dynamic spectrum environments and...

This 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 US leadership in the 5G and emerging 6G open radio access network (RAN) equipment market. The $56.2M award to Abside Networks Inc., a manufacturer of wireless technology, will fund the development and commercialization of two very-large-array open radio unit (O-RU) models. These...

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) awarded a $8,168,674.03 Project Grant to Episys Science Inc. under the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Grant Program (CFDA 11.038). The grant is focused on developing, demonstrating, and evaluating the performance of a software-defined radio system that integrates 3GPP sidelink with an open radio access network (RAN) split supporting uplink performance improvement (ULPI) splits. The project aims to validate a...

This $10,118,112.09 federal 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 integrate and scale a novel software-defined radio (SDR) transceiver architecture within a 5G new radio (NR) massive multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) system prototype. The project, spanning 24 months, will advance the technology readiness level (TRL) of the SDR transceiver from 4...

This $9,960,960 federal Project Grant award from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) under the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Grant Program (CFDA 11.038) supports the development of SALSA (Spectrally Agile Large-Scale Arrays), a wideband, spectrally agile, and scalable radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) and transceiver for future commercial, defense, and research applications. The project aims to design and fabricate the RFIC, develop...

This $167,647 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SWIFT: MEDUSA: MID-BAND ENVIRONMENTAL SENSING CAPABILITY FOR DETECTING INCUMBENTS DURING SPECTRUM SHARING project. The primary objectives are to develop machine learning frameworks and receiver antenna designs to enhance the ability of Environmental Sensing Capability (ESC) sensors to detect the...