NSF invests over $26 million in open-source projects
The U.S. National Science Foundation announced an investment of over $26 million in 19 Phase II projects through the Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) program, further cultivating the creation of new open-source ecosystems (OSEs) anticipated to lead to cutting-edge innovation.
These geographically-diverse, open-source projects come from academia, nonprofits and for-profits and include advances in key technologies such as artificial intelligence and quantum information science, as well as applications including education, health care, biology, the environment, transportation and engineering. Phase II awards provide up to $1.5 million per project over two years to support the transition of promising open-source products into secure, sustainable and impactful OSEs. Browse the full list of the first Phase II POSE awards.
"POSE offers a unique opportunity for innovators to create and grow sustainable, high-impact, open-source ecosystems," said Barry Johnson, director for NSF's Translational Impacts Division within the Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships, which leads the POSE program. "These projects will support the POSE program vision to ensure more secure open-source products, increased coordination of developer contributions, and a more focused route to impactful technologies."
