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Funding

Funding for the current AIR center comes from various funding agencies.

  • MARC U-RISE Program at UND; Sponsored by NIH; Glenda Lindseth, Richard Ferraro, Naima Kaabouch and others; Active dates: 04/2023-04/2028; Award Amount: over $1M.
  • Command, Control, and Communications Options Assessment; Sponsored by NASA, Naima Kaabouch and Ryan Adams; Active dates: 09/2021-08/2024; Award Amount: $412,213.
  • Task 1: Navigation & C2 Approaches to Degraded/Denied Environments; sponsored by NASA; Ryan Adam and Naima Kaabouch; Active dates: 06/2021-07/2024; Award Amount: $506,719.
  • Dark Swarms in Degraded Environment (DSIDE); sponsored by DoD; Ryan Adams, Naima Kaabouch, and Jeremiah Neubert; Active dates: 01/2023-02/2024; Award Amount: $499,000.
  • Defense Resiliency Platform Against Extreme Cold Weather; sponsored by DoD; Tim Pasch (PI); Active dates: 2020 - 2026; Award Amount: $4,000,000.
  • ASSURE A45 - Shielded UAS Operations: Detect and Avoid; sponsored by FAA; Mark Askelson and Naima Kaabouch; Active dates: 02/2021-07/2024; Award Amount: $900,000 (Multi-university grant).
  • A54 Propose UAS Right-of-Way Rules for Unmanned Aircraft; sponsored by FAA; Paul Snyder and Naima Kaabouch; Active dates: 10/2021-08/2024; UND Award Amount: $571,901 (Multi University grant)
  • Smart UAS Inspection of Ancillary Structures in North Dakota; sponsored by North Dakota Department of Transportation; Sattar Dorafshan and Naima Kaabouch; Active dates: 06/2021-11/2023; Award Amount: $412,826 (with cost share)
  • Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE: Small: UAV-NetSAFE.COM: UAV Network Security Assessment and Fidelity Enhancement through Cyber-attack-ready Optimized Machine-learning Platforms; sponsored by NSF, Naima Kaabouch (UND), and Khair A Al Shamaileh (Purdue Northwest), Active dates: 10/20219-09/2024; Award Amount: $399.478 (UND AIR share 199,478)
  • North Dakota S-STEM Scholars; sponsored by NSF; Naima Kaabouch, Julia Zhao, and Deborah Worley; Active dates: 2019-2024; Award Amount: $649,780
  • Peace Garden, Philip Brandt, Jeremiah Neubert, Ron Ferraro, and Mark Askelson; Active dates: 11/2023-11/2024; Award Amount: $1,000,000.
  • HMMWV - Augmented Project Title: Reality Phase 4 (MACRO) Mission Awareness Capabilities Ramp-Up and Optimization; Sponsored by DoD; Jeremiah Neubert, Ron Marsh, and Richard Ferraro; Active dates: 11/2023-9/2026; Award Amount $2,900,000
  • A57 - Investigate DAA Track Classification and Filtering; Sponsored by FAA; Jeremiah Neubert; Active dates: 2023 – 2023; Award Amount $80,000
  • HMMWV - Augmented Reality Phase 3 Mission Awareness Capabilities Ramp-Up and Optimization; Sponsored by DoD; Jeremiah Neubert, Ron Marsh, and Richard Ferraro; Active dates: 1/2022 - 9/2023; Award Amount $1,890,000
  • HMMWV Battlefield Common Operating Picture (COP) Through Augmented Reality (AR) Phase 2; Sponsored by DoD; P.I. Jeremiah Neubert, Ron Marsh, and Richard Ferraro; Active dates: 1/2021-9/2022; Award Amount $2,000,000
  • Autonomous Operations within the North Dakota Renewable Energy Sector; State of North Dakota; Jeremiah Neubert (PI) and Mark Askelson; Active dates: 1/2021 - 1/2023; Award Amount $1,403,373.
I believe we have a moral, ethical, and societal duty to make sure that AI is adopted and advanced in a way that protects the public from potential harm and ensures that everyone is able to enjoy its benefits.VP Pamela Harris
College of Engineering & Mines Research Institute
P 701.777.4460
naima.kaabouch@UND.edu

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