Cooperative Agreement DEEE0009029

This $4,811,292 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) program (CFDA 81.008) is funding Operant Networks, Inc. to enhance energy sector cybersecurity. The project aims to extend a next-generation, data-centric zero trust communications architecture (DZTA) to better support widespread adoption and improve protection for distributed energy resources, industrial control systems, power grid...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) under the Cybersecurity, Energy Security & Emergency Response (CESER) program (CFDA 81.008) provides $3,476,589 to Iowa State University of Science and Technology to develop a holistic, end-to-end zero trust (ZT)-enabled cyber situational awareness platform that incorporates cyber resilience and attack resilient control algorithms for securing...

The University of Illinois at Chicago was awarded a $450,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop a resilient cyber-physical security framework for distributed energy resources. Over a three-year period ending September 2025, the University will partner with Texas A&M University-Kingsville and Sandia National Laboratories to conduct research in four integrated areas: developing a blockchain...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), provides $280,000 to the University of Rhode Island to develop programmable in-network security measures for resilient smart grids. Specifically, the university will create an in-network cyberattack detection system with customizable packet inspection, a self-healing system to automatically...

This $299,839 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the New Jersey Institute of Technology to develop authority distribution techniques for resilient communication networks. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to advance computing and information sciences through investigator-initiated research and education. Specifically, the grant will fund three interrelated research thrusts over a 30-month period ending January 2025. The first thrust...

This $147,097 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of Southern California (USC) aims to transform intrusion detection capabilities through the development of technologies for automated cross-organization data queries. The key innovations of this project include developing cryptographic protocols to enable organizations to pose targeted queries about their operational states to other...

The University of Connecticut received a $3,546,328 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergency Response (CESER) program (CFDA 81.008) to establish the CYBERCARED: Northeast University Cybersecurity Center for Advanced and Resilient Energy Delivery. The project aims to build regional collaborations across academic institutions, power industry enterprises, national laboratories, and government agencies in the Northeast to:...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports research to enhance physical layer security and energy efficiency in ultra-dense Internet of Things (IoT) networks. The $150,000 award to the University of California, Santa Cruz aims to develop a learning-based framework that leverages intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) to improve secure communication channels and mitigate eavesdropping risks. The key...

This three-year, $225,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) will support research to develop security and privacy solutions for 5G and beyond cellular networks. The Regents of the University of California at Riverside, in collaboration with researchers in Japan, will pursue technical tasks to design a heterogeneous data plane framework combining multiple programmable data plane devices for network...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.084 - NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships) provides $238,925.00 to the University of California, Irvine (UCI) to develop advanced privacy protection methods for graph-based intrusion detection systems that can analyze network traffic data across multiple organizations without exposing sensitive information. The research activities include developing specialized cryptographic protocols for essential graph-based...