Project Grant EMW2026CU05004

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, with CFDA number 47.070, provides $453,372 to Syracuse University to develop autonomous operations of multi-UAV uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) for monitoring and tracking natural disaster events like wildfires and flooding. The key research goals are to design and implement robust motion estimation and control schemes that enable a team of UAVs to...

This $550,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) supports the development and demonstration of a novel system to provide secure, unmanned, aerial vehicle guidance in limited connectivity environments. The project aims to develop secure communication protocols for robust and accurate vehicle position, navigation, and timing (PNT) when GPS or GNSS signals are compromised or unavailable. The key...

This $300,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The grant supports a collaborative research project between California State University San Marcos (CSUSM), a Hispanic Serving Institution, and other partners to develop an integrated and extensible platform for investigating security vulnerabilities and countermeasures in the emerging paradigm of...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.076 - STEM Education) for $582,171 provides funding to North Arkansas College to develop and offer a comprehensive training program that prepares students to become proficient Uncrewed Aerial System (UAS) operators. The program will result in students earning an FAA Part 107 Commercial Drone License and gaining skills in areas such as piloting, mission design, operational maintenance, and cybersecurity. Faculty will also be...

The Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Eastern Region awarded Colorado State University a $5 million Project Grant under the Aircraft Pilots Workforce Development Grant Program (CFDA 20.111) for the period of March 1, 2023 through March 1, 2024. The goal of the grant program is to support the creation and delivery of curriculum designed to provide high school students with aircraft pilot education in accordance with the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018. Under this award,...

The National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded a $628,000 Project Grant to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation from June 2021 to May 2024. The grant supports the development of open-source hardware and software to evaluate unmanned aerial vehicle systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). This program aims to advance computing and communications technologies, including cyberinfrastructure to accelerate innovation....

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate has awarded a $999,807 Cooperative Agreement to The University Corporation, a non-profit organization in Northridge, California. The award is funded through the Scientific Leadership Awards (CFDA 97.062) program, which aims to build a pipeline of diverse talent knowledgeable in DHS-related sciences. The project focuses on leveraging recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and unmanned vehicles (UVs) to improve...

The University of North Texas received a $211,786 Project Grant award from the Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command to develop self-powered wireless sensors and interfaces for unmanned aerial vehicles. The grant was awarded on May 5, 2021 under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program of the Defense Department's CFDA #12.630, which supports fundamental research with potential to contribute technologies for...

This $274,354 National Science Foundation project grant funds research at the University of Nevada, Reno to develop techniques for improving the resilience of vision-guided unmanned aerial vehicles and other autonomous systems against cyberattacks. The grant is part of the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which supports innovation and excellence in engineering research. Specifically, the research aims to advance an observability analysis framework for detecting and responding to stealthy...

This $2,000,000 federal Project Grant award from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) under the Homeland Security National Training Program (CFDA 97.005) supports the development and delivery of specialized training, exercises, and educational resources focused on emergency preparedness, hazard response, counterterrorism, and cybersecurity. The prime grantee, Mississippi State University, will utilize this funding to create new homeland...