Bringing national grant dollars to IU

NSF awards $696K for Jetstream Project Year 6

The Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University has been awarded nearly $700,000 from the National Science Foundation to fund the Jetstream cloud computing system’s sixth project year. This brings the total of NSF funding for Jetstream to nearly $14.5M. These funds will allow for a seamless transition from Jetstream to Jetstream2, funded by the NSF at $10M, creating continuity.

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The Crisis Technologies Innovation Lab

The Crisis Technologies Innovation Lab (CTIL), a Pervasive Technology Institute collaboration between RT and the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, received two grant awards.

National Institute of Standards and Technology, US Department of Commerce award in excess of $8M

This CTIL grant award will fund a series of prize competitions to foster technology innovations designed to locate first responders inside structures during times of crisis.

This work was performed under the following financial assistance award 70NANB21H022 from U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology.

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$2.3M grant award from U.S. Army Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center

This grant will fund CTIL and three partners to create a Technology in Disaster Environments Learning Accelerator (TLA). The TLA will use data science and performance science to find best practices for improving COVID-19 patient care. It will also provide insights into how technology can be used to improve disaster response and recovery in general.

This work was supported by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs and the Defense Health Agency J9, Research and Development Directorate, through the MTEC – Technology in Disaster Environments (TiDE) program under Award MT21004.001. Opinions, interpretations, conclusions and recommendations are those of the author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Department of Defense.

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