NIST Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR)
Offers challenge and cooperative formats that spur AI and communications innovation in partnership.
About
NIST's Public Safety Communications Research division is the home for the public-safety communications work that previously flowed through PSIAP, the Public Safety Innovation Accelerator Program. That vehicle ran from 2017 to 2022 and put about $90 million into 83 awards for first-responder communications technology. The current entry is wound down unless Congress restores a new appropriation.
Th…
Max award$5M
Realistic median$750K
Success rate10–20%
Decision time—
No upcoming rounds verified. Cadence: Annual.