Project Grant N000142212386

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...

This Project Grant award of $161,852.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) to the Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, operating through the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). The award will fund research to design, develop, and evaluate spectrally selective Arctic eyewear for enhanced visual performance. Key research activities include...

The National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $499,999 Project Grant to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) to demonstrate an on-chip infrared spectroscopy system. The goal is to develop a miniaturized, ultra-sensitive, and low-noise infrared sensing platform that can compete with conventional Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) technologies while operating at room temperature. The key technical approach involves fabricating an...

This $499,495 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of computational imaging solutions to facilitate underwater robotic tasks through September 2024. Funded under the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the grantee George Mason University will develop a novel angularly sampled imaging system and algorithms to analyze nonlinear light transport in water, model underwater surface reflectance, and reconstruct three-dimensional...

This $467,128 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of a novel mid-infrared retinomorphic vision system. The research seeks to realize sensor devices and in-sensor image processing capabilities inspired by the human retina, with the goal of addressing the speed and efficiency limitations of current high-frame rate camera technologies. Key objectives include developing field-effect gated reconfigurable...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $275,000 to Pirvision Lens LLC supports research and development activities for their proprietary "ActiveLens" technology. The goal is to enhance passive infrared (PIR) motion sensors by enabling improved stationary occupancy detection, human signal differentiation, occupancy counting, and activity identification capabilities. The project will develop...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $1,338,493 cooperative agreement award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to support the "SUPER HEADLIGHTS: SUPERCONDUCTING NANOWIRE DETECTORS FOR PASSIVE INFRARED SENSING" project. The award was issued on June 1, 2021 under DARPA's Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910) to support basic, applied, and advanced research with potential military or dual-use applications. MIT will...

This three-year, $309,811 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research at The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology to develop techniques for improving the resilience of vision-guided unmanned aerial vehicles and other mobile robotic technologies against cyberattacks. The research aims to advance a framework for detecting and responding to stealthy attacks that simultaneously target mission planning, control, perception,...

The Florida International University was awarded a $1,198,506 project grant from the Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command to acquire a combined aerial and underwater motion capture system. The grant was awarded on April 26, 2021 under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program administered by the agency, with work expected to be completed by April 25, 2023. The combined aerial and underwater motion capture system...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) project grant award of $450,000, which runs from March 1, 2025 to February 29, 2028, will advance mid-infrared (MIR) detection capabilities using a silicon-based camera system. The project aims to significantly improve the sensitivity and detection speed of silicon-based MIR cameras by developing metasurface-enhanced non-degenerate two-photon absorption detection. This approach promises to enable high-definition MIR imaging...