2537489
Project Grant
Overview
Grant Description
AmLight: The next frontier towards discovery in the Americas and Africa - The AmLight: The next frontier towards discovery in the Americas and Africa project continues its mission to maintain a purpose-built international network infrastructure to support the Vera Rubin Observatory and U.S. astronomy projects, major facilities, scientific workflows, network testbeds, and the R&E communities in the U.S., Latin America, and Africa by maintaining critical long-haul connectivity, colocation, and software services that directly support U.S.-led global science initiatives.
The project enhances the network operation and automation to guarantee new levels of observability, programmability, integration with science workflows and testbeds, and data transfer performance.
Research contributions include new models for predictive fault detection, telemetry-driven automation, smart network interface-based monitoring, and multi-domain orchestration.
These innovations serve as live, reproducible platforms for computer networking, cybersecurity, machine learning, and distributed systems research.
The project enables transformational science and education by supporting long-term data-intensive workflows across Latin America and Africa, directly benefiting U.S. access to globally distributed facilities, such as the Vera Rubin Observatory, U.S. astronomy projects, the Large Hadron Collider, and environmental sensing.
The project contributes open-source tools; findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable datasets for machine learning and cybersecurity research; and operational telemetry used by national laboratories and academic researchers.
By sharing large-scale telemetry data, automation frameworks, and experimental platforms, the project enables broader engagement in reproducible research and infrastructure science.
This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
Subawards are planned for this award.
The project enhances the network operation and automation to guarantee new levels of observability, programmability, integration with science workflows and testbeds, and data transfer performance.
Research contributions include new models for predictive fault detection, telemetry-driven automation, smart network interface-based monitoring, and multi-domain orchestration.
These innovations serve as live, reproducible platforms for computer networking, cybersecurity, machine learning, and distributed systems research.
The project enables transformational science and education by supporting long-term data-intensive workflows across Latin America and Africa, directly benefiting U.S. access to globally distributed facilities, such as the Vera Rubin Observatory, U.S. astronomy projects, the Large Hadron Collider, and environmental sensing.
The project contributes open-source tools; findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable datasets for machine learning and cybersecurity research; and operational telemetry used by national laboratories and academic researchers.
By sharing large-scale telemetry data, automation frameworks, and experimental platforms, the project enables broader engagement in reproducible research and infrastructure science.
This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
Subawards are planned for this award.
Awardee
Funding Goals
NOT APPLICABLE
Grant Program (CFDA)
Awarding Agency
Funding Agency
Place of Performance
Miami,
Florida
33199-2516
United States
Geographic Scope
Single Zip Code
Related Opportunity
NOT APPLICABLE
Florida International University was awarded
AMLIGHT: International Network Infrastructure Global Science Initiatives
Project Grant 2537489
worth $9,000,000
from the NSF Office of Integrative Activities in October 2025 with work to be completed primarily in Miami Florida United States.
The grant
has a duration of 5 years and
was awarded through assistance program 47.070 Computer and Information Science and Engineering.
Status
(Ongoing)
Last Modified 8/25/25
Period of Performance
10/1/25
Start Date
9/30/30
End Date
Funding Split
$9.0M
Federal Obligation
$0.0
Non-Federal Obligation
$9.0M
Total Obligated
Activity Timeline
Transaction History
Modifications to 2537489
Additional Detail
Award ID FAIN
2537489
SAI Number
None
Award ID URI
SAI EXEMPT
Awardee Classifications
Public/State Controlled Institution Of Higher Education
Awarding Office
490509 OFC OF ADV CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE
Funding Office
490106 OFFICE OF INTEGRATIVE ACTIVITIES
Awardee UEI
Q3KCVK5S9CP1
Awardee CAGE
1JHM5
Performance District
FL-26
Senators
Marco Rubio
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
Modified: 8/25/25