Formula Grant 2302NDSCIP

The Unified Judicial System of South Dakota received a $604,426 State Court Improvement Program (SCIP) Formula Grant (CFDA 93.586) from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families. The grant, effective from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026, will enable the state courts to enhance the quality of court processes and legal representation in child welfare cases. Specifically, the funding will support the Unified Judicial System in conducting...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $526,968 will fund the development of countermeasures against laser-assisted side-channel attacks on integrated circuits and electronic systems from 2022 to 2025. Under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute will investigate "Eradicator," a multi-layer suite of sensors, randomization techniques, and tamper response mechanisms to avert such attacks....

This Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation will fund an awareness raising campaign in Indonesia related to lithium-ion batteries. The $446,943 award will support outreach to mining, foreign trade, and customs authorities from September 2022 through September 2024. The Research Foundation for the State University of New York will undertake the project on behalf of the State University of New York at Albany. The campaign...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Defense Research, Development and Engineering Command (Army Materiel Command) under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) provides $600,499 to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF-SUNY) to develop 20+kV silicon carbide (SiC) insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs). The award period is from July 15, 2024 to July 21, 2025. The goal of this project is to advance the manufacturing capabilities for...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855), provides $424,076 to the University of Washington to develop computational methods for designing new antibiotic macrocycle inhibitors targeting the bacterial type I signal peptidase (SPase I). The key objectives are to leverage advanced computational peptide design, deep learning, and high-throughput synthesis to create a...

This $399,752 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach program (CFDA 11.620) funds a Phase II project to develop standards and open-source software for digital data associated with semiconductor electronics. The project aims to support NIST initiatives related to the CHIPS Act and provide digital data standards to accelerate advanced materials research and development for...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program provides $600,000 to Georgia Tech Research Corp to conduct research and analysis on Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) adoption for securing internet routing. The key objectives are to: (i) identify organizations lagging in RPKI implementation, (ii) understand the barriers they face in adoption, and (iii) develop targeted recommendations to promote wider...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), provides $173,000 to the Long Beach Research Foundation of California State University to investigate secure embedded field-programmable gate array (EFPGA) redaction solutions and dynamic key schemes for hardware security and reliability from March 2023 to February 2025. The project aims to develop a comprehensive...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $275,000 to Axpro Semi, a small business located in Sunnyvale, CA. The funding supports the development of a RISC-V and FPGA pipeline-coupled heterogeneous compute microprocessor architecture and emulation software tools. The goal is to dramatically improve CPU performance and enable more affordable, energy-efficient, and scalable computing...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $283,427.33 Cooperative Agreement under the CHIPS Research and Development (CFDA 11.042) program to The Provenance Chain Network Inc. The award is intended to create a reference implementation of the Commercial Trust Protocol (CTP) to manage verifiable credentials, metrology, and intellectual property, enhancing hardware security and provenance tracking of microelectronic components across supply chains in the U.S....