Block Grant 23A50MI000015

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), under the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach Federal Grant Program (CFDA 11.620), awarded a $318,706 Cooperative Agreement to the Sierra College Foundation to enhance the cybersecurity workforce in Placer County, California. The Placer Cybersecurity Talent Pipeline Collaborative (PCTPC) project aims to engage employers and educators to build talent and address skill shortages through a six-strategy framework. Key...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $300,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Old Dominion University Research Foundation (Odurf) under the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach federal grant program (CFDA 11.620). The purpose of this 2-year project is to increase participation in the cybersecurity workforce by applying the NICE Framework to develop programs that will help diversify the cybersecurity workforce. The project will coordinate events to...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), under the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach program (CFDA 11.620), aims to expand the cybersecurity workforce and enhance skills, credentials, and diversity. The $330,000 award to the Del Mar College District will fund a multi-faceted initiative that includes hands-on training for small and mid-sized businesses, paid internships, upskilling of existing employees, and...

The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded a $360,935 cooperative agreement to HII Mission Technologies Corp, a subsidiary of Alion Science And Technology Corporation, to evaluate enabling capabilities and automation impacts on Next Generation Combat Vehicle (NGCV) crew performance from September 30, 2021 to June 30, 2023. Under this award made through the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431), HII Mission Technologies Corp and...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $349,000 Cooperative Agreement to The Escal Institute of Advanced Technologies, Inc. (doing business as SANS Institute) under the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach Federal Grant Program (CFDA 11.620). The project, titled the Southeastern Cyber Workforce Alliance (SECWA), is designed to enhance cybersecurity workforce development and improve diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) across the...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $303,710 Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 11.620 - Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach) to the Energy Sector Security Consortium, Inc. (EnergySec), a non-profit organization focused on enhancing critical infrastructure security. This 2-year award aims to create year-round employer and student engagement in cybersecurity careers throughout Oregon and southwest Washington, including rural areas. Key activities...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $198,688 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of Notre Dame. The "Collaborative Research: HNDS-R: Advancing Diverse Viable Effective Networked Teams (ADVENT)" project aims to create an open-source computational network model to optimize team formation by integrating functional individual differences and member affinity. The researchers will train and test this model...

This $986,989 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of an AI-driven software platform to enhance academic and career outcomes for first-generation and underrepresented students in higher education. The project aims to integrate competency-based learning, self-reflection, and near-peer mentoring through natural language processing and machine learning algorithms. The platform...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) provides $175,000 to the University of Massachusetts Boston to develop a continual collaborative framework for knowledge graph reasoning. The key products and services to be delivered under this 2-year award (8/1/2025 - 7/31/2027) include: Enabling continual local updating of knowledge graph reasoning models to address the challenge of...

This Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $599,997, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) federal grant program. The award, effective October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2027, aims to develop advanced techniques and tools to improve the management and resolution of ambiguity within collaborative visual analytics. The key objectives are to: 1) Identify sources of ambiguity in collaborative...