Project Grant N000142512295

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory will provide aircraft-derived atmospheric observations to improve weather forecasting models under a $520,500 cooperative agreement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Through the award's two-year period, MIT Lincoln Laboratory will extract meteorological data from commercial aircraft equipped with Mode S transponders using airport surveillance radars. This effort aims to increase the number, spatial resolution,...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Weather and Air Quality Research program (CFDA 11.459) provides $500,000.00 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory to continue development and demonstration of a low-cost, standalone Mode S enhanced surveillance aircraft-derived atmospheric observation system. The project aims to advance the capabilities of this observation technology and meet operational...

Marine Advanced Robotics, Inc. was awarded a $300,000 Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research Program to further develop collaborative algorithms for autonomous swarming of uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs). The company's Wave Adaptive Modular Vessel technology provides a family of portable, foldable and energy-efficient USVs that can rapidly deploy and map predefined survey areas without existing infrastructure....

This federal Project Grant award from the Office of Naval Research's Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) provides $551,903.00 to the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography to develop AUTONOMOUS MODULARIZED ACOUSTIC TRANSCEIVER SYSTEMS (AMATS) for naval operations. The award period runs from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025. Through this grant, Scripps Institution of Oceanography will leverage its expertise in oceanography, marine...

The U.S. Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR) has awarded a $187,500 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300). The grant funding will support a 2-year research project titled "MACE-METER CONDITION-BASED MAINTENANCE" from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2026. The project will involve developing advanced condition-based maintenance technologies for naval applications. Specifically,...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $1,989,353 Cooperative Agreement to the Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems (NERACOOS), a non-profit organization, under the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 11.012). The primary goal of this 3-year project, running from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2027, is to transition the robust and modular data ingestion and management pipelines used by NERACOOS, MARACOOS,...

The Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $715,490 Cooperative Agreement under the Ocean Exploration program (CFDA 11.011) to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) for the period of Aug 1, 2023 to Jul 31, 2025. The project aims to develop artificial intelligence-integrated control algorithms and machine learning models to enable large-scale deployments of uncrewed underwater vehicles and expanded biological observations in the...

The Department of the Navy Secretary of the Navy Office of Naval Research awarded a $999,296 Project Grant to the University of California San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography to develop an autonomy testbed for heterogeneous unmanned vehicle systems (UVX) teams. The grant is funded through the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300), which supports research with potential to improve naval operations and train future researchers. Under the one-year award beginning...

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300). The grant, titled "YIP INTERACTIVE TESTING, ASSESSMENT, AND REPAIR FOR RAPID AUTONOMY ADOPTION", will support advanced research and technology development at MIT from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2027. The funded work aims to stimulate innovative research in areas such as autonomous systems, with...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Weather and Air Quality Research program (CFDA 11.459) provides $556,139 to George Mason University to improve the Global Ocean Reanalysis (GLORE) system. The key objectives are to: (A) upgrade GLORE to replace GODAS as NOAA's real-time ocean monitoring tool, and (B) enhance GLORE's ocean and sea ice initializations to advance NOAA's seasonal ocean forecasting and sea ice outlooks. The...