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,...
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) awarded a $73,184,563.61 project grant to John Mezzalingua Associates LLC (JMA) under the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Grant Program (CFDA 11.038). The grant's objective is to advance JMA's American, Ruggedized, Modular, O-RAN, Radio (ARMOR) platform from Technology Readiness Level 5 to 7 and Manufacturing Readiness Level 4 to 8 over an 18-month period. The ARMOR platform is an open radio unit (O-RU) variant...
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...
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) awarded a $2,676,692 Project Grant to Northeastern University under the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Grant Program (CFDA 11.038). The purpose of this 2-year project is to develop and operationalize a high-fidelity wireless network digital twin (DT) platform with hardware-in-the-loop, known as DigiRAN. The DT framework is designed to streamline low-cost, real-time, repeatable, and automated testing 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 federal Project Grant award for $46,076,086.71 was provided by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) under the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Grant Program (CFDA 11.038). The funding will support Eridan Communications Inc. in accelerating the development of its carrier-grade, open radio access network (RAN) small-cell radio unit (RU) from Technology Readiness Level 5 to Level 7 and Manufacturing Readiness Level 5 to Level 8. The key enabling...
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) awarded Cirrus360 LLC a $2,120,140 Project Grant under the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Grant Program (CFDA 11.038). The purpose of the grant is for Cirrus360 to develop a new test method that uses a digital twin of integrated radio access network (RAN) components to model system implementation and identify potential issues. Key activities include demonstrating efficient testing via formal traffic constraints...
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 $9,964,628.46 federal Project Grant award, issued by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) under the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Grant Program (CFDA 11.038), aims to advance the rapid growth and deployment of Massive Multiple Input, Multiple Output (MMIMO) Open Radio Units (O-RUs) into current and future wireless networks. The key activities to be performed under this award include studying network beamforming implementation, determining...