Project Grant N00173081G002

Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) was awarded a $300,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems to develop a new method for generating electromagnetic waves in radio frequency-challenged environments. The goal is to enable improved navigation and communication capabilities. The two-year project aligns with the National Science Foundation Engineering Directorate's mission to support innovative...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $400,000 over 3 years to the University of California, Berkeley to develop novel intelligent large-scale multi-antenna array architectures operating at 140 GHz. The key products and services to be delivered include: Analytical and behavioral modeling of non-idealities in large scalable antenna arrays Design of reconfigurable D-band (140 GHz) front-ends with performance tuning...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $272,800 SBIR Phase I Project Grant to Morningbird Media Corporation to develop and test a prototype propulsion engine that utilizes electromagnetic energy to enable high-speed space travel. The goal is to create a fundamentally new approach to spacecraft propulsion that could lead to orders of magnitude faster space travel compared to current chemical propulsion systems. The key technical objectives are to develop a complex dielectric material and...

This is a $450,115 federal project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology, a private research university in Hoboken, New Jersey. The grant will fund a 5-year research project focused on developing versatile radio frequency (RF) electronics capable of operating in extreme high-temperature environments, ranging from hundreds to thousands of degrees Celsius. The research aims to establish new fields...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $1,500,000 to the University of Central Florida (UCF) to develop an energy- and spectrum-efficient millimeter-wave (mmW) transmitter array system for next-generation wireless communications. The key objectives are to: 1) Utilize heterogeneous integration and advanced packaging to embed high-power wide-bandgap...

This $450,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) seeks to advance wireless communication technologies by incorporating a new type of reconfigurable antenna, known as a dynamic metasurface antenna (DMA), into multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems. The key objectives are to develop methods to integrate DMAs into MIMO to create a "tri-hybrid MIMO...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award to the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) will fund the design, implementation, and evaluation of a practical electromagnetic (EM) sensing system called EMRADAR. This system will enable research on EM side-channel attacks and defenses for Internet of Things (IoT) devices in realistic environments. The $197,463 award from the NSF's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems will...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $600,000.00 to the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) to develop semiconductor technologies for electrically controlled collimation of electromagnetic waves in the sub-terahertz frequency bands. The goal is to achieve a "needle beam" for wireless communication systems capable of high data rates up to 120 Gbps over distances greater than 1 km, as well as high-resolution...

This $440,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund the development of a semiconductor plasma phased array system with integrated performance-to-radiator mapping capabilities. The primary objectives are to: (1) develop a plasma phased array focusing on feed network solutions, and (2) create fast AI/ML-supported reconfiguration algorithms to enable real-time mapping of system performance to the radiator profile. The project aims...

This $360,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research by Rutgers, The State University to advance dual-function radar-communication (DFRC) technology. The project aims to develop a novel MIMO ISAC (Integrated Sensing and Communication) system that can efficiently utilize bandwidth for both high-speed communication and high-resolution sensing, particularly in high-mobility scenarios where traditional systems face...