This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), under the Congressionally-Identified Projects program (CFDA 11.617), provides $2,999,742.32 to Griffiss Institute Inc. to develop a smart technology lab and experimental testing environment for advancing cyber-physical systems (CPS) and Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities. The key objectives are to: Implement a flexible, secure, standards-based research infrastructure with advanced communications and...
The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego Office of Contract & Grant Administration to support the development of 140 GHz phased-arrays for imaging and object tracking applications. The two-year award, made under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards program (CFDA 11.609), will fund research and technology transfer activities from October 1, 2021 through September...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded Clemson University $109,979 under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards program (CFDA 11.609) from May 1, 2021 to April 30, 2022. The Cooperative Agreement supports the continuing development of a mini-electron beam ion trap for transition-edge sensor x-ray detectors. The Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards program provides scientific and engineering research and technology transfer for measurement and...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $118,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) program to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech). The purpose of this grant is to develop key innovations in data quality assurance methodology for robotics anomaly detection problems based on AI-model-enhanced multimodal data fusion machine learning. The research aims to significantly lower...
This is a federal Cooperative Agreement award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) program. The $127,230 award to Theiss Research, a non-profit research organization, will fund a 3-year project to study, develop, and experimentally demonstrate integrated photonic structures for coupling light between free space and photonic integrated circuits. The project activities will include analytical and...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $100,000 Project Grant under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) federal grant program to Carnegie Mellon University. The grant aims to develop an integrated, high-performance entangled photon pair source based on a silicon-carbide (SiC) microring resonator platform. Key objectives include: Implementing spontaneous four-wave mixing in a dispersion-engineered SiC microring to generate signal-idler...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $1,250,000 Project Grant under the Congressionally-Identified Projects program (CFDA 11.617) to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (RF-SUNY). The grant will fund the creation of a Virtual Reality Training Experience (VRTE) platform to simulate cyber-attacks and defenses for the purpose of training cybersecurity professionals. The project will span 24 months and consists of four main work packages: (1)...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), under its Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards program (CFDA 11.609), awarded a $109,993.36 cooperative agreement to Airt Inc. (doing business as Airborne International Response Team) for the period of April 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022. The purpose of this cooperative agreement is to validate standard test methods for small unmanned aircraft system pilots employed by public safety organizations. NIST's Measurement and...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $185,341.23 Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 11.609 - Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards) to the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to perform research and gather stakeholder feedback on effective collaboration mechanisms for addressing standardization needs in four critical and emerging technology sectors: additive manufacturing, biometrics, cloud computing, and nanotechnology. The project activities...
This $150,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) program supports the establishment of a Standing Committee on AI Technologies and Emerging Implications (SCAITEI). The key activities include: Convening the SCAITEI to track AI advancements and explore associated technical, societal, ethical, and policy issues, through regular meetings, workshops, and expert...