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The Citizens National Bank of Meridian (CNBM) was awarded a $1.8 million Project Grant from the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) under the Community Development Financial Institutions Rapid Response Program (CDFI RRP). The funding will support CNBM's ability to respond to the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic by providing financial and technical assistance to underserved communities and populations between June 2021 and...

This $1.2 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund research at the University of Washington from June 2022 through May 2026 to advance theoretical foundations of block ciphers. The research aims to narrow the gap between provable security and cryptanalysis by developing security proofs against limited classes of statistical and algebraic attacks. It will also study important but under-researched components...

The CNA Corporation was awarded a $709,851 Project Grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs National Institute of Justice under the National Institute of Justice Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants program (CFDA 16.560). The grant will fund CNA to conduct a rigorous multi-site evaluation of Crime Information Centers (CICs) implemented in four law enforcement agencies across the country. CNA will systematically review CIC organizational styles and...

The Department of the Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund awarded $717,900 under the Community Development Financial Institutions Program (CFDA 21.020) to Pcnb Corp. on February 28, 2023. The project grant will support Pcnb Corp.'s work through December 31, 2026 to promote economic revitalization and community development in Native communities across the United States. Through this funding, Pcnb Corp. will provide monetary awards and training opportunities to certified...

Partner Community Capital, Inc., doing business as Ncif, was awarded a $1,826,265 Project Grant from the Department of the Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund under the Community Development Financial Institutions Rapid Response Program (CDFI RRP, CFDA 21.024). The grant will support Ncif's ability to provide financing and technical assistance to communities and businesses impacted by the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic from June 2021 through December...

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund awarded a $400,000 Project Grant under the Native Initiatives program (CFDA 21.012) to Native CDFI Network Inc. (NCN), a minority-owned and Native American-owned non-profit organization based in Grand Island, Nebraska. This grant supports NCN's efforts to empower Native CDFIs serving Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian communities by providing technical assistance, training, and...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $600,000 supports research on the complexity of satisfiable constraint satisfaction problems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from January 2023 through December 2025. Funded through the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), this award will advance the development of probabilistically checkable proofs theory through focused study of satisfiable constraint satisfaction problems, a fundamental class of...

The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded a $1.2 million Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to support research on theoretical foundations of block ciphers from June 1, 2022 to May 31, 2026. The award will fund research to narrow the gap between provable security and cryptanalysis of block ciphers such as the Advanced...

Supranational LLC received a $999,976 cooperative agreement award from the National Science Foundation under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) on September 15, 2021. The award will support the company's work to develop hardware acceleration for zero knowledge proofs for distributed ledger technology through August 31, 2023. Specifically, Supranational LLC will leverage hardware to improve the efficiency and scalability of zero knowledge proofs, cryptographic methods that enable...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to develop new approaches for designing scalable network algorithms using a new computational model called CRAM. The grant, which runs from Feb 2024 to Jan 2027, seeks to create intellectual foundations, compilers, and algorithms that leverage the dynamic allocation of content-addressable memory...