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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....

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Award Overview The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1.5M Cooperative Agreement under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) to Indiana University, effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2027. The Safety, Security, and Privacy of Open-Source Ecosystems (SAFE-OSE) project implements artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled vulnerability management practices to enhance cybersecurity within open-source cloud...

Federal Project Grant Summary The National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) awarded $1.0M to the University of California Santa Cruz on July 15, 2025, for research in automated hardware accelerator design. The project, titled "SHF: CSR: MEDIUM: PRACTICAL AND EFFICIENT ACCELERATORS WITH HIGH-FREQUENCY CHIPLETS," will deliver three primary products: (1) co-designed deeply pipelined Zero Knowledge Proof (ZKP) accelerators...

Summary of Federal Cooperative Agreement Award CE25-028 The University of Washington received a $699,788 cooperative agreement from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) under the Injury Prevention and Control Research and State and Community Based Programs (CFDA 93.136) to assess the effectiveness of Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) in reducing polysubstance impaired driving among emerging adults aged 18-30 in Washington State. The...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Scripps Research Institute received a $1.22 million project grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), awarded September 1, 2025, with a completion date of May 31, 2030. This award supports a data mining and functional validation initiative focused on analyzing single-cell and single-nucleus genomic datasets from the SCORCH program. The research aims to identify gene regulatory...

SINAPSE Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded $824,984 to Rutgers, The State University under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to develop the Scalable Infrastructure for AI-Coupled Predictive Simulation Enhancement (SINAPSE) project. The award, effective October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2028, supports the creation of an open-source software development kit (SDK) that integrates artificial intelligence...

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 Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program, provides $437,250 to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to conduct pooled in vivo screening of combination gene therapies for enhancing axonal regeneration after spinal cord injury (SCI). The key objectives are to 1) perform CRISPR screening to identify the most effective...

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...

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...