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NSF program Use-Inspired NextG (350Y00): 54 awards, $17.7M to 46 organizations

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54 NSF awards ($17.7M) under the program element Use-Inspired NextG (350Y00) to 46 organizations, fiscal years 2022 to 2026, read 2026-11-03.

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Program element code: 350Y00
Directorate: Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
Division: CSE - Core Programs

Awards

54 awards in the window.

Award	Agency	Institute or division	Fiscal year	Amount in window	Start	End	Principal investigator	Source
VINES: Track 1: NSF-RCF: Elevating Resilience in Aerial Platform Integrated THz Backhaul	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$700,000	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Shahriar Shahabuddin	nsf.gov
VINES: Track 1: Spectrum Coexistence and Integration for Mega LEO and Direct-to-Handset Satellite Networks	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$700,000	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Jeffrey G Andrews	nsf.gov
VINES: Track 1: NSF-SRC: High Efficiency Radio Over (HERO) fiber for 6G Networks and Beyond	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$675,000	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Jeffrey S Walling	nsf.gov
VINES: Track 1: NSF-JST: SENRIGAN: Infrastructure-based autonomous driving for micromobility	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$675,000	August 1, 2026	July 31, 2029	Yao Liu	nsf.gov
VINES: Track 1: Intelligent Resilient Overlays for NextG Networks (IRONN)	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$669,000	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Amy E Babay	nsf.gov
VINES: Track 1: REGAIN: Resilient and Energy-Efficient Generative AI for Secure Hospital Robotics over NextG Networks	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$592,000	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Gourav Datta	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1:Quantum-Ready and AI-Enabled by Design: Resilient and Deployable Next-Gen Cellular Networks	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$559,850	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	rouzbeh behnia	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: NSF-MeitY: SoyWatch: Smart Sensing Network for Precision Soybean Breeding	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$528,137	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Xiaolei Huang	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: AI-Empowered Semantic Communications with Energy Efficiency and Privacy Preserving for IoT-Enabled Emergency Response	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$475,000	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Songyang Zhang	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: NSF-JST: SCALE: Smart Collaborative Aerial Logistics Ecosystem - A Vertically-Integrated Networked System for Urban On-Demand Delivery	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$435,000	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Zhaowei Tan	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: NSF-SRC: Towards Resilient and Converged NextG Manufacturing Systems	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$405,000	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Song Han	nsf.gov
VINES: Track 1: Enabling Real-Time Agricultural Robotics with AI-Native Cellular Access Edge	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$400,000	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Daehyeok Kim	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: NSF-RCF: FORMULA3: Optimal Resource Management Using Generalizable AI in Frequency Range 3 Dynamic Programmable Wireless Environments	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$400,000	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Muhammad Ismail	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: Towards AI-Native Holographic Communication for Accessible Telepresence	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$400,000	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Hongfei Xue	nsf.gov
VINES: Track 1: Enabling Low-Latency Applications Over a Best Effort Internet	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$400,000	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Ethan Katz-Bassett	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: FACTORY-AI: AI-Native Industrial IoT Networks for Smart Manufacturing	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$374,300	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Fatemeh Afghah	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: Next-G hybrid free-space and optical fiber quantum networks	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$368,000	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Leandros Tassiulas	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: Photonics-Enabled Energy-Efficient Radio Architecture With In-Line Signal Processing for Massive MIMO (PRISM)	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$366,666	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Ali M Niknejad	nsf.gov
VINES: Track 1: NSF-RCF: SmartSpaces: Novel Spatial Awareness Services to Enable New Verticals	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$350,000	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Ashutosh Sabharwal	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: NSF-SRC: SENSE-VR: Semantic ENcoding and SEnsor-Driven Communication for Privacy-Preserving Multi-Site Virtual Reality Systems	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$350,000	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Ehsan Aryafar	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: NSF-SRC: SENSE-VR: Semantic ENcoding and SEnsor-Driven Communication for Privacy-Preserving Multi-Site Virtual Reality Systems	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$350,000	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Jacob Chakareski	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: Coexistence of wireless applications for drone highways	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$349,971	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Zoya Popovic	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1:Quantum-Ready and AI-Enabled by Design: Resilient and Deployable Next-Gen Cellular Networks	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$332,900	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Elisa Bertino	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: Toward Agentic AI-powered NextG Network with Integrated Sensing and Communication for IoT-based Healthcare	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$330,000	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Yingying Chen	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: Next-G hybrid free-space and optical fiber quantum networks	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$317,680	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Donald F Towsley	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1:Quantum-Ready and AI-Enabled by Design: Resilient and Deployable Next-Gen Cellular Networks	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$307,250	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Imtiaz Karim	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: FieldAware: AI Native Hybrid-field Networking for Connected Autonomous Systems	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$301,666	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Rui Zhang	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: FACTORY-AI: AI-Native Industrial IoT Networks for Smart Manufacturing	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$300,034	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou	nsf.gov
VINES: Track 1: U.S-Ireland R&D Partnership: Synchronized Mobile and Stationary Sensor Networks for Real-Time Bridge Health Assessment (SYN-Bridge)	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$300,000	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Nasim Uddin	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: NSF-RCF: FORMULA3: Framework for Optimal Resource Management Using Generalizable AI in FR3 Dynamic Programmable Wireless Environments	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$300,000	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Sabit Ekin	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: Vines: Track 1: Establishing a Systematic Security Foundation for Next Generation Cellular Networks	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$291,000	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Angelos Stavrou	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: AI-Enhanced Reconfigurable and Scalable Terahertz CMOS Transceiver Panel for NextG Communication Systems via Multidimensional Integration	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$282,816	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Milad Koohi	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: NSF-SRC: Towards Resilient and Converged NextG Manufacturing Systems	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$270,000	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Tianyu Zhang	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: ARMANI - AI-native RAN MANageability and Intelligence for Next Generation Networks	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$266,667	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Leandros Tassiulas	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track1: Management and Control of Multi-Infrastructure Spectrum-Sharing Networks.	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$259,000	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Randall A Berry	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: VERIRAN: Securing AI-Native O-RAN Applications via Formal Invariant Verification	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$252,975	August 1, 2026	July 31, 2029	Vinod T Yegneswaran	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: Towards AI-Native Holographic Communication for Accessible Telepresence	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$240,000	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Chen Chen	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: NSF-JST: SCALE: Smart Collaborative Aerial Logistics Ecosystem - A Vertically-Integrated Networked System for Urban On-Demand Delivery	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$240,000	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Yaxiong Xie	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track1: Management and Control of Multi-Infrastructure Spectrum-Sharing Networks.	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$216,000	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Eytan Modiano	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: Tri-Hybrid Optimization and Reconfiguration (THOR) for Extreme MIMO Systems	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$207,000	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Ryan M Dreifuerst	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: Tri-Hybrid Optimization and Reconfiguration (THOR) for Extreme MIMO Systems	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$206,000	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Robert W Heath	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: Vines: Track 1: Establishing a Systematic Security Foundation for Next Generation Cellular Networks	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$201,000	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Lixia Zhang	nsf.gov
VINES: Track 1: Al-driven Design, Control, and Management of NextG Optical Networks	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$200,000	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Suresh Subramaniam	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: AI-Enhanced Reconfigurable and Scalable Terahertz CMOS Transceiver Panel for NextG Communication Systems via Multidimensional Integration	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$196,920	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Hossein Naghavi	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: NSF-RCF: LLM-guided Adaptive Networking with Edge Intelligence for Emergency Response	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$178,965	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Huining Li	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: NSF-RCF: LLM-guided Adaptive Networking with Edge Intelligence for Emergency Response	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$161,206	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Ying Chen	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: Coexistence of wireless applications for drone highways	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$150,031	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Linda P Katehi	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: FieldAware: AI Native Hybrid-field Networking for Connected Autonomous Systems	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$148,334	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Ye Hu	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: Photonics-Enabled Energy-Efficient Radio Architecture With In-Line Signal Processing for Massive MIMO (PRISM)	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$133,336	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Tingjun Chen	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: ARMANI - AI-native RAN MANageability and Intelligence for Next Generation Networks	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$133,333	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Vijay K Shah	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: NSF-MeitY: SoyWatch: Smart Sensing Network for Precision Soybean Breeding	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$131,863	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Jian Zhang	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: AI-Enhanced Reconfigurable and Scalable Terahertz CMOS Transceiver Panel for NextG Communication Systems via Multidimensional Integration	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$120,260	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Morteza Fayazi	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: Toward Agentic AI-powered NextG Network with Integrated Sensing and Communication for IoT-based Healthcare	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$110,000	October 1, 2026	September 30, 2029	Yan Wang	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: VERIRAN: Securing AI-Native O-RAN Applications via Formal Invariant Verification	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2026	$97,025	August 1, 2026	July 31, 2029	Zhiqiang Lin	nsf.gov

Organizations

Organization	Place	NIH amount	NSF awards	NSF amount
University of Texas at Austin	Austin, TX	$0	2	$1.1 million
Rutgers University New Brunswick	New Brunswick, NJ	$0	2	$1 million
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	Blacksburg, VA	$0	2	$966,000
Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station	College Station, TX	$0	3	$732,847
Oklahoma State University	Stillwater, OK	$0	1	$700,000
University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh, PA	$0	1	$669,000
Yale University	New Haven, CT	$0	2	$634,667
Case Western Reserve University	Cleveland, OH	$0	1	$592,000
University of South Florida	Tampa, FL	$0	1	$559,850
SUNY at Buffalo	Amherst, NY	$0	2	$541,666
University of Memphis	Memphis, TN	$0	1	$528,137
University of Louisiana at Lafayette	Lafayette, LA	$0	1	$475,000
University of California-Riverside	Riverside, CA	$0	1	$435,000
University of Connecticut	Storrs, CT	$0	1	$405,000
Tennessee Technological University	Cookeville, TN	$0	1	$400,000
University of North Carolina at Charlotte	Charlotte, NC	$0	1	$400,000
Columbia University	New York, NY	$0	1	$400,000
Clemson University	Clemson, SC	$0	1	$374,300
University of California-Berkeley	Berkeley, CA	$0	1	$366,666
William Marsh Rice University	Houston, TX	$0	1	$350,000
Portland State University	Portland, OR	$0	1	$350,000
New Jersey Institute of Technology	Newark, NJ	$0	1	$350,000
University of Colorado at Boulder	Boulder, CO	$0	1	$349,971
Purdue University	West Lafayette, IN	$0	1	$332,900
University of Massachusetts Amherst	Amherst, MA	$0	1	$317,680
North Carolina State University	Raleigh, NC	$0	2	$312,298
University of Texas at Dallas	Richardson, TX	$0	1	$307,250
Arizona State University	Scottsdale, AZ	$0	1	$300,034
University of Alabama at Birmingham	Birmingham, AL	$0	1	$300,000
University of Iowa	Iowa City, IA	$0	1	$270,000
Northwestern University at Chicago	Chicago, IL	$0	1	$259,000
Sri International	Menlo Park, CA	$0	1	$252,975
The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees	Orlando, FL	$0	1	$240,000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cambridge, MA	$0	1	$216,000
Mitre Corporation Virginia	Mc Lean, VA	$0	1	$207,000
University of California, San Diego	La Jolla, CA	$0	1	$206,000
University of California Los Angeles	Los Angeles, CA	$0	1	$201,000
George Washington University	Washington, DC	$0	1	$200,000
University of Washington	Seattle, WA	$0	1	$196,920
Pennsylvania State Univ University Park	University Park, PA	$0	1	$161,206
University of Miami	Coral Gables, FL	$0	1	$148,334
Duke University	Durham, NC	$0	1	$133,336
Kennesaw State University Research and Service Foundation	Kennesaw, GA	$0	1	$131,863
University of Utah	Salt Lake City, UT	$0	1	$120,260
Temple Univ of the Commonwealth	Philadelphia, PA	$0	1	$110,000
Ohio State University	Columbus, OH	$0	1	$97,025

Funding by fiscal year

Fiscal year	NIH awards	NIH amount	NSF awards	NSF amount
2026	0	$0	54	$17,706,185

Open federal funding opportunities

From Grants.gov: notices that funded awards in this table, and open notices on the same agency and assistance listing.

Open opportunity	Number	Agency	Listing	Closes	Award ceiling	Why it matches
National Science Foundation Translation to Practice (NSF TTP)	25-540	NSF	47.070	November 17, 2026	$2 million	Same assistance listing 47.070 as 50 awards here
EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (FEC)	24-573	NSF	47.070	January 26, 2027	$1.5 million	Same assistance listing 47.070 as 50 awards here
Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1	24-598	NSF	47.070	February 8, 2027	$20 million	Same assistance listing 47.070 as 50 awards here
NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure - NEH Documenting Endangered Languages (DLI-DEL)	22-615	NSF	47.070	February 16, 2027	Not listed	Same assistance listing 47.070 as 50 awards here
Expeditions in Computing	20-544	NSF	47.070	March 31, 2027	Not listed	Same assistance listing 47.070 as 50 awards here
EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII): EPSCoR Research Fellows	24-528	NSF	47.070	April 13, 2027	Not listed	Same assistance listing 47.070 as 50 awards here
Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable Open Science (FAIROS)	25-533	NSF	47.070	April 14, 2027	Not listed	Same assistance listing 47.070 as 50 awards here
Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)	22-586	NSF	47.070	July 28, 2027	Not listed	Same assistance listing 47.070 as 50 awards here
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)	23-601	NSF	47.070	August 18, 2027	$500,000	Same assistance listing 47.070 as 50 awards here
Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Excellence in Research (HBCU - EiR)	23-598	NSF	47.070	October 19, 2027	Not listed	Same assistance listing 47.070 as 50 awards here
National Science Foundation National Innovation Corps Teams (NSF National I-CorpsTM Teams) Program	25-549	NSF	47.070	October 6, 2076	Not listed	Same assistance listing 47.070 as 50 awards here
Facilitating Research at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions: (RUI and ROA-PUI)	14-579	NSF	47.070	October 14, 2076	Not listed	Same assistance listing 47.070 as 50 awards here
Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR): Workshop Opportunities	24-540	NSF	47.070		$200,000	Same assistance listing 47.070 as 50 awards here
Foundational Research in Robotics	PD-20-144Y	NSF	47.070		Not listed	Same assistance listing 47.070 as 50 awards here
Cyberinfrastructure for Public Access and Open Science	PD-24-7414	NSF	47.070		$600,000	Same assistance listing 47.070 as 50 awards here
Unlocking Dataset Value for AI-Enabled Scientific Discovery (AI Datasets)	26-512	NSF	47.041	November 4, 2026	Not listed	Same assistance listing 47.041 as 4 awards here
PFE: Research Initiation in Engineering Formation (PFE: RIEF)	20-558	NSF	47.041	November 10, 2026	Not listed	Same assistance listing 47.041 as 4 awards here
Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure	23-520	NSF	47.041	January 21, 2027	$1 million	Same assistance listing 47.041 as 4 awards here
GROWING CONVERGENCE RESEARCH (GCR)	24-527	NSF	47.041	February 8, 2027	$3.6 million	Same assistance listing 47.041 as 4 awards here
EMERGING FRONTIERS IN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION (EFRI-2026/27): Wave-Based Computing ( EFRI-WBC)	26-524	NSF	47.041	February 11, 2027	Not listed	Same assistance listing 47.041 as 4 awards here

Updated November 3, 2026. Read from NIH RePORTER ExPORTER and NSF Award Search. Published by NIH and NSF as U.S. government data. NIH awards are fiscal years 2021 to 2025 (NIH files published to 2026-07-09); NSF awards are fiscal years 2022 to 2026 (NSF files published to 2026-11-02). NIH amounts are the total cost of each fiscal year in the window; NSF amounts are the funds obligated in the window. Organizations are matched on the UEI. Open opportunities come from Grants.gov and match on agency and assistance listing number, and on the notice number NIH prints on an award. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.