Formula Grant 2503CACWSS

The Department of Defense (DoD) awarded a $116,398 FY24 Block Grant to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) for the DoD Cyber Scholarship Program (CYSP) and DoD Cyber and Digital Services Academy (DCDSA). This award, with a performance period from August 16, 2024 to August 15, 2025, supports curriculum development, research projects, and scholarship programs to enhance national cybersecurity capabilities and strengthen the talent pipeline in information assurance, cybersecurity, and related...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), provides $612,648 to Worcester Polytechnic Institute to develop new methods for securing embedded software. The awardee will shift security enforcement from developers to compilers using static analysis, runtime instrumentation, and hardware support. Enhancements will enable customization and promote longevity....

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...

The Municipal Water District of Orange County Water Facilities Corporation received a $209,808.84 Project Grant award from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation under the Water Conservation Field Services (WCFS) Program (CFDA 15.530) to expand the Orange County Commercial, Industrial, Institutional (CII) Water Conservation Planning Project Phase II. This project will develop customized best management practice (BMP) implementation plans for at least six additional Orange County water retailers to...

This $182,000 Formula Grant award from the Federal Highway Administration's Highway Planning and Construction program (CFDA 20.205) will fund the replacement of the computerized traffic signal system (CTSS) along Connecticut Route 85 (Hartford Turnpike/Broad Street) from Jefferson Avenue to the I-395 southbound off-ramp in Waterford, Connecticut. The project aims to upgrade the existing CTSS infrastructure to improve traffic flow and safety along this corridor. The Connecticut Department of...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $119,967.50 Cooperative Agreement under the Youth Engagement, Education, and Employment Federal Grant Program (CFDA 15.676) to the California Conservation Corps (CCC) for the Watershed Stewards Program (WSP). The WSP will engage 42 CCC corps members in watershed restoration projects across California's high-need watersheds, with 2 corps members serving at the Lodi U.S. Fish and Wildlife Office (LFWO). The corps members placed at LFWO will assist...

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...

The U.S. Air Force Materiel Command awarded a $413,329 Cooperative Agreement to Colorado State University on September 9, 2024 under the Conservation and Rehabilitation of Natural Resources on Military Installations program (CFDA 12.005). The purpose of this award is to conduct a feasibility study and proof-of-concept for novel secure authentication and chemical/hazard labeling technologies to improve accuracy of hazardous materials and safety data sheets, and provide rapid risk assessment and...

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...

This $2,646,047 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) is developing a national integrated watershed evaluation framework to improve water resource management. The framework will bring together diverse hydrologic datasets and provide tools for advanced model evaluation and exploration of watershed conditions. The project, led by Princeton University, will engage a diverse community...