Cooperative Agreement DEOE0000899

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $1,000,000.00 in funding to Grid Modernization Solutions LLC (doing business as Grid Elevated), a woman-owned small disadvantaged business, to enhance and advance U.S. critical infrastructure security. The project, titled "SUNIGATE: Secure Universal and Intelligent Data Gateway," aims to improve the capabilities to detect,...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) program (CFDA 81.008) provides $5,583,698.00 to the Electric Power Research Institute Inc. (EPRI) to develop an integrated, automated system to identify third-party and potential zero-day vulnerabilities, verify their exploitability dynamically, and create a feedback loop for rapid enhancement of static analysis capabilities. The objectives of this 3-year...

The Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) under the Cybersecurity, Energy Security & Emergency Response (CFDA 81.008) program, aims to demonstrate cybersecurity technologies in a smart grid network and validate the operation of an in-network analysis platform. The $3,452,571.00 project, which runs from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026, is being conducted by the Research Foundation...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program provides $488,384 to Oklahoma State University (OSU) to develop decentralized, privacy-preserving methods for detecting cyber attacks on critical infrastructure networks. The key products and services to be delivered include: Decentralized algorithms and computational frameworks for publicly verifiable cyber attack detection, leveraging...

This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070), supports the development of a novel "Dynamic Network Telescope" system. The $1.2 million grant aims to deploy and evaluate this experimental system at the Merit Network Telescope, one of the largest network telescopes available to the research community. The project will enable the Merit Network, a nonprofit regional research...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (CFDA 81.122 - Electricity Research, Development and Analysis) provides $1,400,000.00 to New York University to develop, test, and field-demonstrate a comprehensive tool suite for making the secondary electric distribution system visible to system operators and planners. The project aims to achieve this through synergistic, grid-level data analytics using advanced...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations provides $527,295 to the University of Maryland, College Park to develop passive measurement tools for detecting internet censorship and traffic tampering. The award, which runs from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2025, aims to create a collection of measurement tools that can rapidly detect newly censored content and capture what users are actively experiencing, unlike...

This National Science Foundation award of $102,289 provides funding for a one-year project grant to The University of New Mexico titled "MRI: Acquisition of a Network Emulator for Cyber Security Research of Electric Power Grids." The goal is to purchase a co-simulation tool to model cyber-physical systems and conduct cybersecurity research on critical infrastructure like power grids. This tool will enable researchers to study cyberattacks in a digital twin platform without risking an...

This Project Grant award, valued at $165,434,810, was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy under the Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience (CFDA 81.254) federal grant program. The objective of this project is to develop a unified approach and comprehensive framework to mitigate and address risks and impacts from hazards, accelerating the deployment of technologies and best practices to improve situational awareness, reduce response time, and increase the reliability of the...

Protection Engineering Consultants LLC was awarded a $199,765 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 21, 2023 to develop a NETWORK RISK ASSESSMENT TOOLKIT (NETRAT). The period of performance for the award is February 21, 2023 through January 20, 2024. The award was made under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The program supports the Office of Science's mission to deliver scientific discoveries and tools that transform...