Cooperative Agreement 2534021
- This $1,498,346.00 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports research to ensure the security and robustness of the TOCK secure embedded operating system. The project will develop new techniques to protect the TOCK project from malicious attacks that could compromise the security of computing systems relying on TOCK, such as data centers, laptops, and smartphones. Key efforts include...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,500,000 Cooperative Agreement under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to The Regents of the University of Colorado (CU) to enhance the safety, security, and privacy of the Community Earth System Model (CESM), an important open-source tool used to simulate Earth systems and predict events like hurricanes, floods, droughts, and wildfires. The project aims to develop a security framework to identify and fix...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,500,000 Cooperative Agreement under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program. The award is for the "SAFE-OSE: Cultivating a Security-Focused Community Infrastructure for OpenMRS" project, which focuses on enhancing the cybersecurity of the OpenMRS open-source electronic health records platform that serves over 18 million patients globally. The project will address security vulnerabilities in OpenMRS...
- This $462,473 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports research aimed at improving the security of safety-critical embedded systems. The project, titled "SATC 2.0: RES: ENSURING THE SECURITY OF SAFETY-CRITICAL EMBEDDED SYSTEMS," will develop techniques to automatically discover vulnerabilities and triage embedded system firmware, with a focus on automotive infrastructure. The...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), provides $612,648 to Worcester Polytechnic Institute to develop new methods for securing embedded software. The awardee will shift security enforcement from developers to compilers using static analysis, runtime instrumentation, and hardware support. Enhancements will enable customization and promote longevity....
- The University of Connecticut received a $599,999 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to advance computational security in scientific research workflows. The project, titled "ADVANCING SECURITY IN TEE-ENABLED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH WORKFLOWS: A HOLISTIC APPROACH," aims to develop novel techniques in runtime and distributed attestation to protect sensitive data and ensure research integrity, even when...
- This $1,199,875 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), supports research at the University of Utah to understand and address software supply chain security risks in high-performance computing (HPC) environments. The key objectives of this 3-year project, titled "HPCSAFECHAIN", are to: 1) systematically identify and characterize security risks specific to HPC software supply...
- This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, expands secure and reliable access to digital infrastructure that supports science, education, and innovation. The $1,499,999 award, spanning from September 2025 to August 2027, develops a community-driven open-source ecosystem focused on secure authentication, authorization, and credential management in distributed systems. The project aims to...
- This $194,999 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), supports research to enforce expressive security policies using trusted execution environments. The project aims to advance the state-of-the-art for building secure systems by automatically placing security-critical application components within secure enclaves, reducing the programming challenges. The work includes developing a...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $267,999 to the University of South Florida to develop a scalable, remote hardware security education platform. The platform will provide open access to physical hardware development boards for hands-on training in cybersecurity and hardware security topics. The key products and services to be delivered include: Designing and deploying a remote platform...
This $1,233,063 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program aims to enhance the security of the TianoCore open-source firmware ecosystem. The project, led by the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, will focus on three key areas: 1) rapid triaging and patching of identified vulnerabilities in the TianoCore source code, 2) enabling deployment of advanced security analysis tools, and 3) streamlining the bug handling process. The project outcomes are expected to mitigate security risks associated with the widespread use of TianoCore firmware, which is critical to the startup and operation of a variety of computing devices from cloud servers to IoT platforms. The award has an ultimate completion date of September 30, 2027.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $1.2m | 9/22/25 |