Cooperative Agreement DTFH6112H00014

This 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 (CESER) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 81.008), aims to develop and demonstrate an automated Distributed Energy Resource (DER) device security vetting and hardening framework called DERGUARD. The $4,200,000 award, with a performance period from September 2024 to September 2027, will...

Radiation Detection Technologies, Inc. received a $199,317 project grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to commercialize the Micro Pocket Fission Detector (MPFD). The award will support Radiation Detection Technologies' efforts to develop and bring to market the MPFD, a handheld radiation detection device, through June 26, 2023. The Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049) aims to deliver scientific discoveries and tools that transform...

Diversified Technologies, Inc. received a $199,615 project grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop solid state circuit breaker (SSCB) technology from June 28, 2021 through March 27, 2022. The Office of Science's program supports scientific research advancing the nation's energy and economic security through basic research projects. This award aimed to deliver SSCB prototypes, which could improve...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering Directorate (ENG), funded under the CFDA 47.041 program, provides $299,917 to Wayne State University to develop methodologies for synthesizing cyber-secure and resilient control logic for networked discrete-event systems subject to cyber attacks. The principal objective is to enhance the reliability and performance of advanced control systems that embed complex control logic by providing formal methodologies to...

The U.S. Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded a $399,964.00 Cooperative Agreement to D-Prime LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business, for the project "TRANSFORMING COMMAND AND CONTROL: THE IMPERATIVE FOR ADAPTIVE HUMAN-AI SYSTEMS". This award is funded under the Department of Defense Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431), which supports foundational and applied research across diverse scientific and...

This $449,188 National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations grant, awarded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA #47.070) program, supports a collaborative research project at the University of Notre Dame focused on developing novel techniques for detecting and recovering from sensor attacks in cyber-physical systems (CPS). The key objectives are to: 1) create real-time, adaptive sensor attack detection approaches that...

This federal Project Grant award from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) under the Scientific Research - Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction program (CFDA 12.351) provides $631,742 to support research and development to create color-changing coatings for the selective detection of chemical warfare agents known as vesicants. The primary objective is to develop bioengineered enzymes and optical signaling agents that can visually indicate the presence of vesicants on surfaces, in order to...

This $199,867 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of Michigan to develop formal methodologies for synthesizing cyber-secure and resilient control logic for networked discrete-event systems subject to cyber attacks. Funded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the three-year project commencing September 2022 aims to enhance the reliability of advanced control systems through model-based approaches. Researchers will extend diagnosability...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $3,245,061, provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability under the Electricity Research, Development and Analysis (CFDA 81.122) program, aims to develop, field demonstrate, and validate the synergistic benefits of dynamic line rating (DLR) and advanced power flow control (APFC) technologies for enhancing the reliability and performance of the electric grid in New England. The project, led by the Georgia Tech...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, issued by the 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 $4,087,807 to GE Vernova Operations LLC to develop and demonstrate the Universal Utility Data Exchange (UUDEX) framework as a potential replacement for the Inter-Control Center Communications Protocol (ICCP) standard. The project aims to...