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The Army funds a Rice research center on antenna arrays that carries AI as one of six disciplines

Research and scienceUnited States Army Research OfficeHarrisClosed

The United States Army Research Office established a five year research center at Rice University for secure sensing, imaging and communications. Edward Knightly of the electrical and computer engineering department leads it. The center studies extremely large antenna arrays. It lists artificial intelligence alongside wireless networking, antennas, radar, circuits and physics. The release describes no specific AI method. What the models will actually do inside the work is not yet on the public record.

How to take part

The university publishes its own account of the award. No public participation step is named.

Where to do it

Where

1 county. In Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands.

Timeline

  1. decided

    Rice announced the award establishing the center

  2. Today

How this decision moved

One dated line per check, oldest first. A line that says nothing changed means somebody looked and it had not.

  1. 2026-08-26

    Admitted. The university names artificial intelligence as one discipline in the center and describes no method, which is what is on the record and no more.

  2. 2026-08-29

    Checked and unchanged. The Army award to Rice still stands and artificial intelligence is still one discipline among the several the center combines. The modeling framework it funds is still described as simulating electromagnetic environments in real time.

  3. 2026-09-02

    The research center stands as funded and the university has published no change to its scope.

  4. 2026-09-05

    The Army funded center on antenna arrays at Rice still stands as awarded, with AI still one of its named discipline areas.

The evidence

Every fact above rests on one of these. The words are the source's own.

the center combines expertise in wireless networking, antennas, radar, artificial intelligence, circuits and physics to address growing demands on wireless systems.
Rice University, Rice to lead $15M Army Research center for next-generation sensing and communications Primary source, official · news.rice.edu
This center gives us the opportunity to develop the science and engineering needed for a new generation of wireless networks with radically new capabilities, resilience and security
Rice University, Rice to lead $15M Army Research center for next-generation sensing and communications Primary source, official · news.rice.edu

Questions about this decision

Answered from the record itself. Every answer is assembled from stored fields, so an answer the record has no basis for is left out rather than guessed.

What is this decision?

The United States Army Research Office established a five year research center at Rice University for secure sensing, imaging and communications. Edward Knightly of the electrical and computer engineering department leads it. The center studies extremely large antenna arrays. It lists artificial intelligence alongside wireless networking, antennas, radar, circuits and physics. The release describes no specific AI method. What the models will actually do inside the work is not yet on the public record.

Who decides it?

United States Army Research Office decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.

Can the public take part?

The university publishes its own account of the award. No public participation step is named.

Where in Texas does it apply?

It covers Harris County in the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX area.

Has it been decided?

It has been decided. The dates on the item page carry when.

What happens next?

No future date is on the record. The last dated step on it was decided on August 4th.

When did it start?

The earliest date on its record is August 4th, 2026.

What kind of decision is it?

It is filed under research and science.

What sources back it?

One source backs it. It is primary.

Is it on the ERCOT grid?

Yes. It sits inside the ERCOT interconnection.

When was it last checked?

Every fact on it was last verified against its source on September 5th, 2026.

Cite this

Texas AI Docket, The Army funds a Rice research center on antenna arrays that carries AI as one of six disciplines. Tracked since August 4th, 2026. Last verified September 5th, 2026. https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0099/. Reuse permitted under CC BY 4.0 with attribution. The same entry is in the docket JSON as item tx-2026-0099.

Beat

Filed under Research and science, with every other decision on that beat.

Last checked 2026-09-05