The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded a $2,475,000 Project Grant under the Congressionally-Identified Projects (CFDA 11.617) program to Delaware Innovation Space Inc. The purpose of this award is to acquire research-enabling laboratory equipment that will support rapid technology development and commercialization for startups in Delaware Innovation Space's incubator facility. The project will strengthen the incubator's 130,000 square foot wet laboratory by...
This $962,984 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Congressionally-Identified Projects program (CFDA 11.617) is intended to procure equipment and support the expansion of the Nubian Square Life Sciences Community Laboratory Program into the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. The key activities include: 1) ordering equipment to provide hands-on training for the biomanufacturing program, 2) developing community relationships and...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $1,980,000 Project Grant under the Congressionally-Identified Projects program (CFDA 11.617) to Wright State University to renovate and expand collaboration and R&D facilities. The project will transform a historic office building in Dayton, Ohio into a 13,700 SF prototyping and research facility, including up to 2,000 SF of dedicated classified space for Department of Defense (DoD) projects. This will enable Wright State to...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $2,900,000 Project Grant under the Congressionally-Identified Projects program (CFDA 11.617) to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York, College of Staten Island. The grant funding will be used to upgrade outdated lab equipment in teaching labs that serve six academic departments: Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering and Environmental Science, Mathematics, and Physics and Astronomy. The project...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $2,000,000 Project Grant (CFDA 11.617 Congressionally-Identified Projects) to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to perform renovations and improvements to the RIT Semiconductor and Microsystems Fabrication Laboratory. The grant funds will be used to: 1) Identify and acquire new equipment, and 2) Install the new equipment in the facility. Approximately half the budget will be spent on core infrastructure upgrades to the...
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...
This $7,250,000 federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Congressionally-Identified Projects program (CFDA 11.617), will enable the University of Delaware to procure biopharmaceutical manufacturing equipment at the pilot/clinical scale. The purpose is to establish a testbed for benchmarking current and future biopharmaceutical manufacturing innovations, as well as to support workforce development training activities, within the...
This $963,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Congressionally-Identified Projects program (CFDA 11.617) aims to develop a Smart Mobility Lab in the City of Alexandria, Virginia. The key products and services to be delivered include: Deploying and evaluating smart mobility technologies such as smart intersections, adaptive lighting, smart parking, micro transit, and mobility hubs to address mobility challenges in the city....
This $963,000 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Congressionally-Identified Projects program (CFDA 11.617) will fund the acquisition of four pieces of specialized research equipment at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, FL. The instruments, including a Seahorse XF24 and Oroboros Oxygraph 2K, a fluorescence microscope, a NanoString nCounter and prep station, and a CODEX digital spatial profiler, will be used to advance new...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $963,000 Project Grant under the Congressionally-Identified Projects program (CFDA 11.617) to the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) for the period of October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026. The purpose of this grant is to accelerate structure-based drug and vaccine design programs that benefit human health by implementing state-of-the-art electron detection hardware to determine 3D structures of various biological compounds...