Formula Grant 2501LACWSS

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) under CFDA Program 10.907 Snow Survey and Water Supply Forecasting, provides $230,000 to Colorado State University's Sponsored Programs division to continue accelerated research, development, enhancement, and maintenance of the Persephone web application and supporting M4 CSIP back-end services. This funding will improve the management, analysis, assessment, and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems provides $148,959 to support the development of real-time data collection and downscaled climate risk models to improve water quality and sustain salt marshes in the Buzzards Bay watershed. Under the official federal grant program "Computer and Information Science and Engineering" (CFDA 47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education in computing and...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) awarded a Cooperative Agreement totaling $1.23 million to the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) for the TIANOSHIELD project, effective October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2027. TIANOSHIELD focuses on enhancing the security posture of the TianoCore ecosystem, which implements the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) standard for...

The Federal Highway Administration awarded $3.15M to the City of Charlotte under the Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) program (CFDA 20.939) on September 4, 2025, to develop a comprehensive and multi-jurisdictional Comprehensive Safety Action Plan (CSAP) for the Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization (CRTPO) planning area. The project, which extends through September 4, 2028, will also support the development of local Safety Action Plans for individual CRTPO member...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1.5 million Cooperative Agreement to the University of Colorado (prime awardee) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) beginning October 1, 2025, and concluding September 30, 2027. This NSF Safety, Security, and Privacy of Open-Source Ecosystems (SAFE-OSE) project enhances the safety, security, and privacy of the Community Earth System Model (CESM), a critical open-source tool...

Federal Grant Award Summary The Office of the Secretary of Defense awarded $5.49M to University Enterprises Corporation at California State University, San Bernardino under the CyberSecurity Core Curriculum program (CFDA 12.905) to establish and operate the Cyber Workforce Community National Center. The award, issued September 30, 2025 with a completion date of October 31, 2026, designates the awardee as an administrative hub for multi-institutional collaboration in cybersecurity workforce...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program grant (CFDA 47.070) provides $172,848 to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines to investigate fundamental design trade-offs in a retro-reflective uplink enabled integrated sensing and communication with optical wireless (ISAC-OW) system for large-scale networks. The project will develop a cross-domain framework for the integrated design of efficient and scalable retro-reflective...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Colorado State University's Sponsored Programs Division received an $850,000 Cooperative Agreement from the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) under the Soil and Water Conservation program (CFDA 10.902), awarded September 25, 2025, with completion targeted for September 24, 2026. The award funds Colorado State University to provide web services, data management, model optimization, and cloud-based machine learning models that support NRCS's...

Worcester Polytechnic Institute received a $176,424 Project Grant award from the Office of the Secretary of Defense under the Information Security Grants program (CFDA 12.902) on August 29, 2025. The award supports the Department of Defense Cyber Service Academy, a scholarship-for-service initiative designed to recruit and retain cybersecurity talent within the federal civilian workforce. Under this five-year grant (completion date: August 28, 2030), WPI will administer merit-based...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's $167,504 Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to develop new algorithms and programming abstractions for server operating systems and network interface cards to improve network traffic scheduling in cloud data centers. With an award date of October 1, 2021 and completion by August 31, 2022, this research seeks to overcome current performance bottlenecks and enable multiple applications to drive network cards at...