Project Grant R44DA044929

This $255,837 National Science Foundation project grant funds the development of a blockchain-driven, distributed memory computational platform for industrial analytics by Blockalytics LLC. The platform will enable predictive analytics on geographically distributed industrial data without data movement or reliance on cloud-based solutions. Blockalytics will integrate blockchain smart contracts with distributed memory frameworks to design primitives similar to MapReduce for blockchain and develop...

This $296,000 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program aims to accelerate data-intensive computing through a "Real-Time Smart Data Lake." The awardee, Airmettle Inc., will develop technology to enable large JSON data objects to be processed directly within a software-defined data lake storage solution. This will allow analytic client applications to efficiently retrieve...

Hyfi LLC received a $1.24M Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) on June 15, 2025, to develop an advanced flood forecasting system through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II initiative. The project, scheduled for completion by May 31, 2027, will deliver a fully operational, self-learning flood prediction platform that integrates real-time sensor data with advanced...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $855,394 cooperative agreement to Leaf Global Fintech Corp under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) for the period February 1, 2022 through January 31, 2024. The award will support the company's SBIR Phase II project to develop blockchain-backed financial transaction technology facilitating access to banking services in low-bandwidth environments. Specifically, the technology aims to digitize international money...

Directed Analytics Inc. received a $276,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to develop an automated employability skills framework. The one-year project will create a scalable software platform integrating data from school districts and higher education programs on transition methods and employment outcomes for individuals with autism spectrum disorder or other developmental disabilities. Using machine learning, the...

This two-year, $500,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will support Duke University in developing the Flexible Affordable Scalable Technology for Research Storage system. Commonly known as FAST, this shared research storage system utilizes commodity data center hardware and open source Ceph software to provide flexible, high-performance, and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, aims to develop a new data representation and storage system called LABIOS to address the challenges of storing and accessing massive and complex data sets in data-intensive computing. The $599,999 award to the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) will fund research to design and implement LABIOS, a...

This SBIR Phase I Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $275,000 in funding to Radius Technology Systems, Inc. to develop a high-throughput smart contract platform capable of processing over 1 million transactions per second. The key innovation is the ability to execute smart contract transactions in parallel without needing to serialize a global order, enabling horizontal scalability. The platform...

The National Science Foundation awarded Forward Edge Ai Inc. a $997,567 cooperative agreement under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop a blockchain system for preserving integrity of communication channels. The two-year project will create and test technical solutions using blockchain to help maintain the security and trustworthiness of digital connections and exchanges of information. Forward Edge Ai will perform the work in San Antonio, Texas...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award in the amount of $274,541 to Salus Financial Technology Inc., a minority-owned for-profit business, aims to develop a digital underwriting platform for small dollar loans to serve traditionally underserved borrowers. The platform will use innovative techniques to more effectively assess credit risk and facilitate equitable lending decisions for borrowers who lack access to...