# Collaborative Research: Planning: AI-Ready: DHARMA.AI Digital Hardware + Analog-RF for Multifunctional Apertures with AI

> **NSF 01002526DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT** · Florida International University (FL) · $50,000

## Abstract

This planning project will integrate several existing wireless testbeds that encompass a wide range of radio frequency bands and communication techniques into a cohesive, software-defined virtual platform, offering novel capabilities. The project will create a strategic plan for testbed design, integration and workforce development. The base design of existing testbeds, once integrated, will form preliminary results for a highly scalable community infrastructure. By adapting existing testbeds as a prototype for incorporating AI-driven capabilities, the team expects new competencies to be spawned for US-based academic and industrial partners that build toward the national interests of economic development in emerging 6G and next-generation networking markets.

The proposed testbed will integrate wireless testbeds at collaborating institutions into a single ultra-broadband, multifunctional, and uniquely capable platform for emerging experiments under AI control. The overarching goal is enabling cross-level autonomy and cognition in wireless systems. During this project, the team will develop a plan that helps with long-term goals of a unified wireless testbed infrastructure, including creating software and hardware tools necessary to provide a single-stop solution for researchers to deploy and run multi-site experiments, and developing the tools necessary to run AI solutions both within and across individual network layers, and multi-site experiments with real-time data strea

## Key facts

- **NSF award ID:** 2509389
- **Awardee organization:** Florida International University (FL)
- **SAM.gov UEI:** Q3KCVK5S9CP1
- **PI:** Habarakada L Madanayake
- **Primary program:** 01002526DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
- **All programs:** —
- **Estimated total:** $50,000
- **Funds obligated:** $50,000
- **Transaction type:** Standard Grant
- **Period:** 08/15/2025 → 07/31/2027

## Primary source

NSF Award Search: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2509389

## Citation

> US National Science Foundation, Award 2509389, Collaborative Research: Planning: AI-Ready: DHARMA.AI Digital Hardware + Analog-RF for Multifunctional Apertures with AI. Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-08 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nsf/2509389. Licensed CC0.

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