New $4M initiative is funded by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), and managed through a collaboration of US Ignite, Fort Carson, the city of Colorado Springs, and the University of Colorado Washington, D.C. – October 10, 2019 – US Ignite today announces the launch of a smart transportation testbed and autonomous vehicle (AV) pilot program in coordination with Fo…

New regional testbed spanning areas of Raleigh and Cary, North Carolina will focus on wireless communications for vehicular and unmanned aerial systems Raleigh, N.C. – September 18, 2019 – The National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced the third award in its Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) program. In collaboration with an industry consortium of 30 networking compa…

US Ignite is pleased to announce the finalists for its Pitch Competition for teams from the US Ignite/AWS Startup Accelerator 2019 cohort.  The final pitch competition features eight teams selected from the twenty invited to participate in this year's training, which consisted of curriculum from the Kauffman Foundation's FastTrac training for entrepreneurs, mentorship from technical professiona…

US Ignite – Autonomous Vehicle Testbed Project Manager About US Ignite US Ignite is accelerating the smart city movement – and creating value for an entire ecosystem – by guiding communities into the connected future, creating a path for private sector growth, and advancing technology research that’s at the heart of smart city development. To make it all happen, our crew of highly…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – July 9, 2019 – US Ignite is pleased to announce the cohort for the Spring/Summer 2019 US Ignite/AWS Startup Accelerator program.  As part of US Ignite's mission to accelerate the smart city movement, we have partnered with Amazon Web Services to help these companies launch into their next phase of development.  Leaders from each of these organizations will participate in…

US Ignite seeks a vendor to provide Software as a service (SaaS)/Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud computing platform to enable US Ignite to build a visual, demographic economic tool. Responses to the RFP are due by June 12, 2019. For further details, access the complete RFP document here. Current Questions and Answers from prospective proposers include:  Q: As it is SaaS solution we n…

US Ignite seeks a vendor to provide ongoing web hosting services. US Ignite is soliciting responses from qualified firms for a 12-month contract. The term of the contract will begin July 1, 2019 and end June 30, 2020. For further details, access the complete RFP document here. Please visit the consolidated list of Questions and Answers from prospective proposers here.

Selected applicants will receive free online training over an eight-week course, up to $10,000 in AWS credits, and the chance to present in a final showcase event at Amazon offices in Washington, DC WASHINGTON, D.C. – May 1, 2019 – US Ignite is pleased to announce a new Smart City Startup Accelerator program designed to guide developers through the process of launching a cloud-based busine…

New consortium of industry partners includes: AT&T, C Spire, Cisco, Fujitsu, Current by GE, iconectiv, Interdigital, Microsoft, Oracle, Qualcomm, Verizon Community partners include: Austin, Texas; Chattanooga, Tenn.; Colorado Springs, Colo.; District of Columbia; Independence, Ore.; Kansas City, Mo.; Las Vegas, Nev.; Portland, Ore.; San Diego, Calif.; Virginia Beach, Va.; Denver, Co. WAS…

The NSF-funded Midscale Experimental Research Infrastructure Forum (MERIF) is sponsoring a Workshop whose goal is to teach university and college faculty how to use the various NSF-funded midscale experimental testbeds in their classes. Wednesday May 29 - Thursday May 30th, 2019 George Washington University Washington, DC The workshop will feature instructional material,talks and offer hands-o…

PAWR Program News As a Strategic Member of the OpenAirInterface Software Alliance (OSA), The PAWR project is co-hosting the First OAI North America workshop on June 25-27 at Nokia-Bell Labs Murray Hills Campus in New Jersey. Come join us to learn more about the progress of the platforms and interact with the global OAI community. Reasons to Attend   The first two awarded platforms in t…

POWDER-RENEW team completes fixed campus deployment of first PAWR network testbed, creating a research platform for the development of breakthrough wireless communications technologies WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 2, 2019 – The Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) program, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and a consortium of 29 industry partners, today announced the c…

St. Petersburg Innovation District will oversee the delivery of technology advancement and economic development in the international smart city program March 25, 2019 – St. Petersburg, FL -- Today, US Ignite, a non-profit organization seeking to accelerate the smart city movement, and Spectrum announced the selection of St. Petersburg as a Smart Gigabit Community, with the St. Petersburg Inn…

Request for Proposals (RFP) for a Federal Consulting and Advocacy Firm to Represent US Ignite, Inc. Issue Date: February 1, 2019 PART ONE:  Background US Ignite Overview US Ignite is a national nonprofit, a 501(c)(3), that is accelerating the smart city movement – and creating value for an entire ecosystem – by guiding communities into the connected future, creating a path for pr…

Request for Proposals (RFP): Video Support Date Issued: January 18, 2019 Please note: Click here for a PDF version of this document. Section 1: Overview of RFP US Ignite seeks a partner to provide contracted video support at the 7th Annual US Ignite Application Summit from April 1-4, 2019. The event will be held in Denver, Colorado. US Ignite is soliciting bids from all interested partie…

US Ignite is pleased to announce the proposals accepted as part of our recent round of Application Development Awards announced opened for submission in August of 2018. The Application Development Awards provide up to ten thousand dollars in funding per proposal submitted and accepted from one of our Smart Gigabit Communities (SGC). This round of awards a total of eighty thousand dollars to im…