Project Grant FA95502410151

This $360,000 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support the development of coherent processing techniques for passive localization of RF-silent mobile objects using bandwidth-rich wireless signals. The grantee, The Trustees of The Stevens Institute of Technology, will pursue three research thrusts. Thrust A will develop passive localization and mapping...

The Colorado State University Research Foundation was awarded a $226,067 Project Grant from the United States Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant will support research into Passive Electromagnetic Sensing from Distributed Sensors from May 2021 through April 2024. The Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain Air Force technological superiority through scientific research relevant to its needs. This...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $197,463 to the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to design, implement, and evaluate a practical electromagnetic (EM) sensing system named EMRADAR. The goal is to enable research on EM side-channel attacks and defenses in real-world Internet of Things (IoT) environments. The project will focus on three key areas: (1) developing innovative signal processing techniques to...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $450,000 over 3 years to the University of New Mexico to develop an advanced magnetometry sensor based on frequency comb techniques. The proposed sensor will exploit direct phase detection rather than amplitude measurements, enabling enhanced resolution and sensitivity for gradient magnetic field detection. Key technical objectives include theoretical modeling, verification with a...

Michigan State University received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems to develop a compact wireless multi-modal detector array for remote sensing and imaging applications. Funded under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program, this five-year award will support the awardee's efforts to design self-oscillation encoding telemeters (SETs) capable of encoding various input signals over a wide frequency range for...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE, CFDA 47.070) Project Grant awarded to The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey provides $599,986 from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026 to develop an alternative distributed radio frequency (RF) sensing paradigm that can "look around corners" using reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS). The project aims to advance fundamental theory and practical methods...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $450,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the Regents of the University of Michigan to develop a groundbreaking broadband probe-based RF and microwave measurement system. This novel technology enables highly localized, non-invasive characterization of the electromagnetic response of receiving systems, representing a significant advancement in electromagnetic measurement capabilities. The proposed probe can precisely...

This $600,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund collaborative research that investigates cognitive and cooperative sensing and imaging systems for rapid near real-time subsurface infrastructure monitoring and mapping. The key products and services to be delivered include: Development of autonomous mobile ground penetrating radar (GPR) agents with slant scanning and edge-enhanced communication and computing capabilities,...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science awarded a $205,499 Project Grant to Sentek Instrument, LLC, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business, to develop an active sensing cable and interrogation system for subsurface magnetic field imaging. This project, funded under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), aims to advance distributed fiber optic sensing technologies for applications in energy research and carbon storage initiatives. The award was made...

This $197,780 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of a novel quantum magnetometer sensor based on an organic chromophore coupled with a mechanical resonator. The research aims to create an ultra-sensitive and highly efficient magnetometer sensor that can detect variations in magnetic fields through the quantum emission of a single chromophore. This work has potential applications in fields such as robotics,...