Project Grant FA23862314005

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $105,268 Cooperative Agreement to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation under the Space Technology program (CFDA 43.012) on August 20, 2024. The funding will support the development of techniques for building and evaluating high-resolution digital elevation models of the lunar surface using orbital imagery data. This work is intended to improve terrain relative navigation capabilities for spacecraft and landers, which is critical...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $1,482,618 Project Grant to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop a next-generation charge-coupled device (CCD) image sensor optimized for astronomical spectroscopy. The project aims to demonstrate the ability to readout a 4096x4096 pixel CCD image in a few minutes instead of hours, which will significantly improve the...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $449,999 Project Grant to the University of Rochester to develop a navigation-grade, chip-scale gyroscope enabled by weak value amplification. This 3-year award under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to create a highly sensitive and stable gyroscope that can meet navigation performance metrics and improve upon the state-of-the-art by 100-fold. The proposed effort will develop...

This Project Grant award, valued at $400,000, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). The award supports the development of innovative "snapshot computational imaging" systems that leverage recent advances in metaoptics, or optical devices using sub-wavelength nano-structures, to capture multidimensional information about light interactions with the world. The key objectives of this...

The Portland State University was awarded a $199,244 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems Engineering program to develop bandwidth-efficient photon data capture and processing techniques for single-photon avalanche diode cameras. The goal is to enable megapixel and higher resolution SPAD cameras by addressing the data bandwidth challenge through hardware and algorithmic reconfigurability of the SPAD pixel array. The...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $430,000 Project Grant to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville to develop scalable single photon detection systems. The 3-year project seeks to adapt existing perimeter gated single photon avalanche diode (PGSPAD) technology to other semiconductor platforms, create a scalable detection architecture with wireless integration, and test the new devices through fabrication and simulation....

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $274,996 to Opticalx, LLC, a small disadvantaged business located in Tracy, CA, to develop an optical solution for detecting and tracking small space debris. The project, titled "Space-Time Projection Optical Tomography (SPOT)", aims to leverage graphical processing unit (GPU) computing to enable the detection of space debris...

The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded the University of Colorado Boulder a $425,000 Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The three-year award will support the development of a chip-scale, chalcogenide-based nonlinear optical gyroscope with enhanced performance. The gyroscope aims to provide ultrasensitive rotation sensing without moving parts for applications requiring precise navigation where GPS is...

The Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR) awarded a $559,581 Project Grant under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to develop "A KID CAMERA FOR LONG-RANGE IMAGING THROUGH OPTICAL OBSCURANTS". The award period runs from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2029. Caltech has sub-awarded portions of the grant to Arizona State University (ASU) and the University of Virginia (UVA) to support the...

OAM Photonics LLC will develop a high-performance, compact, and lightweight 3D light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensor under a $1,000,000 cooperative agreement award from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). The LIDAR sensor aims to enable more affordable drone-based, high-precision mapping applications by leveraging coherent LIDAR detection and silicon photonics technology in an innovative design. The compact form factor sensor...