Project Grant D16AP00090

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance (CFDA 16.610 - Regional Information Sharing Systems) provides $548,000.00 in funding to the Institute for Intergovernmental Research (IIR) to serve as the training and technical assistance provider for the Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISS) Program. IIR will support the six RISS centers and the RISS Technology Support Center in carrying out the RISS Program's priorities, which include...

The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) awarded a $1,749,289 Cooperative Agreement under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710) to The CNA Corporation, in partnership with the Institute for Intergovernmental Research (IIR), to continue implementing the Collaborative Reform Initiative Organizational Assessment (CRI OA) program. This program provides proactive, non-adversarial support to law...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award provides $200,000 to Iowa State University for the development of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) panel capable of simultaneously programming both the transmission and reflection of electromagnetic waves. This project aims to enhance the functionality and energy efficiency of RIS technology to support resilient 5G and 6G wireless communications,...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), supports research to design and prototype an active reconfigurable intelligent surface (Active-RIS) system operating at 142 GHz. The $200,000 award to The Pennsylvania State University will enable the development of a wideband liquid crystal-based RIS with tunable reflection capabilities, as well as the design of robust algorithms for optimal...

This Project Grant award from the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) under the Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements (CRISI) program provides $7,584,000.00 to the City of Cincinnati to improve the safety and reliability of four highway-rail grade crossings on U.S. State Route 50 (River Road). The key deliverables include replacing outdated railroad and traffic signal equipment with new systems that meet current safety standards, adding safety features, and implementing a...

This Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $252,810.00, was awarded on August 1, 2024 by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 11.021). The grant supports Anysignal Inc., a small disadvantaged business, in conducting a systems-level feasibility study for capturing Global Navigation Satellite System - Radio Occultation (GNSS-RO) data using an Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC)...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded a $1,199,623 Project Grant to Merit Network Inc., a nonprofit organization, to develop the Instrumentation for Research and Inter-institutional Security Operations Center (IRIS SOC). The IRIS SOC will monitor network traffic entering and leaving Merit's backbone network, detect and mitigate cyber threats to Merit's member institutions, and provide threat intelligence and vulnerability insights to security...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) project grant, titled "CRII: NETS: INTELLIGENT REFLECTING SURFACE ASSISTED TRANSMITTING AND SENSING FOR SPECTRUM SHARING AND COEXISTENCE OF HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS SYSTEMS", aims to develop a multi-intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted spectrum sharing and sensing framework to enable the coexistence of heterogeneous wireless systems. The $175,000 award, with a...

The Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research awarded a $399,654 Project Grant under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to SRI International to conduct research on "Equatorial Spread-F (ESF) Weather: Day-to-Day Variability". The project will investigate the day-to-day fluctuations in the equatorial ionosphere, which can disrupt satellite communications and navigation signals. SRI International will lead the research effort, with support from...

The Rhode Island Department of Public Safety (RI DPS) was awarded a $667,596 Cooperative Agreement grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics under the National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP) on January 1, 2025. The funding will support several projects for the Rhode Island State Police (RISP) Technical Services area, including: Purchasing, configuring, and installing new core redundant network switches and network switch devices at RISP facilities. 2)...