Project Grant W911NF2110099

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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $550,000 Project Grant under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The grant period runs from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026. The goal of the research project is to explore low-cost integrated circuit technology for next-generation 240 GHz multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) radar...

This $174,964 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations supports research under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program. The grant funds development of a novel sparse framework for automotive radar sensing to enable high-resolution environmental perception for autonomous vehicles. Key products include algorithms applying matrix completion to irregular sparse arrays, achieving high angular resolution with low-cost...

The University of Utah received a $629,737 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028, to conduct the Adaptive Spectrum Sharing and Use (ASSURE) project. This research initiative develops innovative spectrum-sharing technologies enabling 5G/6G cellular systems and federal radar systems to safely coexist within the 2.7-3.1 GHz band, addressing critical spectrum...

This $1,200,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of Illinois to establish millimeter wave (mmWave) radar as a first-class perception and control tool for small autonomous robots and drones. The project aims to develop new radar-based localization, mapping, and semantic scene understanding capabilities that can operate on the limited onboard compute of small robots...

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...

This three-year, $300,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will support research into energy-efficient terahertz communications technologies for beyond fifth-generation wireless systems. The University of California, Irvine will lead collaborative efforts with institutions in Finland to address fundamental physical layer challenges through four interconnected research thrusts. Specifically, the award will fund...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $200,001 to Duke University to develop innovative analog correlators and circuits-system co-design to enable dense and in-situ spectrum monitoring. The key products and services to be delivered include: Ultra-efficient, single-shot analog cross-correlators capable of rapidly computing cross-correlations between input signals and template waveforms to enable low-latency spectrum sensing....

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $300,000 in funding to William Marsh Rice University to develop a novel "Mixed Domain Design" (MD2) framework for designing next-generation wireless communication systems operating in the 7-24 GHz frequency range. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: Developing a theoretical framework and...

This $2,000,000 Project Grant was awarded by the Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information Administration under the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Grant Program (CFDA 11.038). The purpose is to develop testing and evaluation procedures for open and interoperable solutions for next-generation (5G-Advanced and beyond) radio access network (RAN) components in the FR3 spectrum band, with a focus on shared and adversarial scenarios. Key activities include...