Cooperative Agreement DECR0000023

This federal Project Grant award of $500,000.00 from the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (CFDA 84.116) supports the "CYBER SECURITY LEADERSHIP CENTER - RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND TRAINING IN CYBERSECURITY FOR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE" at Clark Atlanta University, Inc. The award period runs from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027. This grant will enable Clark Atlanta University, a private, historically Black university in Atlanta,...

The Center for Excellence in Cybersecurity Education will provide $2.87 million in funding from the Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) program to Brookdale Community College Inc. from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025. Under this Project Grant award, Brookdale Community College will establish and operate the Center for Excellence in Cybersecurity Education to support institutional reforms and innovative strategies designed to improve...

This $12,500,035 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Cybersecurity, Energy Security & Emergency Response (CESER) program (CFDA 81.008) to Auburn University aims to establish a Model Regional Operations Center to enhance the cybersecurity of the U.S. electricity sector in the Southeastern region. The project seeks to improve collaboration, fill operational technology gaps, increase cybersecurity awareness and workforce, and enhance the resiliency of the regional...

This Project Grant award from the Department of Defense Washington Headquarters Service Office of Economic Adjustment provides $1,256,180 under the Economic Adjustment Assistance for State Governments (CFDA 12.617) program to the University of Maryland Baltimore County to modernize cybersecurity curriculum for manufacturing operational technology. The University will work with sub-awardees MXD USA and UMBC Training Centers to develop new cybersecurity course content informed by manufacturer...

This $385,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program will establish a cyber training hub for cyber-physical energy systems at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa, Florida. The project aims to provide students and researchers with hands-on training and mentorship in areas such as power engineering, communication networks, data science, and cyber/hardware security. Key objectives include: (1)...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $450,000 Congressionally-Identified Projects (CFDA 11.617) grant to St. Bonaventure University to establish a Cyber Operations Center. The project aims to transform an existing classroom into a fully functional Security Operations Center (SOC) that will provide graduate and undergraduate students with hands-on experience in cybersecurity threat prevention, detection, and response. The funding will cover advanced cybersecurity...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a Project Grant of $450,292 to Oakland University (OU) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070). This 3-year grant will support OU's Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, titled "UNCORE-CYBERAI". The project will engage 30 undergraduate students, many from underrepresented groups and institutions with limited STEM...

This Project Grant award, totaling $300,000 and funded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering), strengthens national cybersecurity and artificial intelligence education efforts by building a comprehensive collection of hands-on labs that simulate real-world security challenges through cloud-based virtual environments. These labs are hosted through the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) platform to remove...

Clark Atlanta University, Inc. was awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant from the Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education under the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) federal grant program. The grant will support Clark Atlanta University's TRAINING, RESEARCH, AND EDUCATION IN CYBERSECURITY FOR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE (TRECCI) project from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The TRECCI project aims to provide training, research, and education in...

This three-year, $425,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will fund research at The Pennsylvania State University to develop provably secure, online learning-based adaptive cyber defenses for real-world servers. The research aims to provide mathematically rigorous guarantees by synthesizing new models integrating machine learning, game theory, and control theory. It will...