Formula Grant 252OH062N1199

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...

This federal Project Grant award of $600,000.00 was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) to New Mexico State University (NMSU). The award will fund research to address fundamental challenges in payment channel networks (PCNs), a layer 2 scaling solution for blockchain networks. The key objectives are to: 1) solve research challenges in PCNs, 2) build PCN protocols that are cross-chain...

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...

This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) on developing consolidated data plane management tools for network functions (NFs). The project aims to design efficient algorithms and data structures to automatically manage the deployment and resource usage of multiple co-existing NFs, which are crucial for managing...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $283,427.33 Cooperative Agreement to The Provenance Chain Network Inc. under the CHIPS Research and Development (CFDA 11.042) program. The purpose of this award is 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 for the U.S....

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...

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...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award of $299,686 will fund the University of Connecticut (UConn) to design efficient tools that automatically manage the algorithm design, deployment and resource management of multiple co-existing network functions (NFs) through a new concept called consolidated data planes. Key objectives include: Developing an automatic tool to construct consolidated data plane...

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...