Formula Grant 257CACA3N1199

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...

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...

The Native CDFI Network Inc. (NCN), a minority-owned and Native American-owned non-profit organization, was awarded a $400,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Small Business Administration's (SBA) Office of Capital Access under the Program for Investment in Microentrepreneurs (PRIME) program. The award, effective September 30, 2024 through September 29, 2025, will support NCN's efforts to provide training, technical assistance, and capacity-building services to enhance the management capabilities of...

This $225,000 three-year 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), will fund research at The George Washington University to develop security and privacy solutions for 5G and beyond cellular networks. Key activities include designing a heterogeneous data plane framework combining multiple programmable data plane devices for network function processing. Most...

The Department of the Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund awarded $717,900 under the Community Development Financial Institutions Program (CFDA 21.020) to Pcnb Corp. on February 28, 2023. The project grant will support Pcnb Corp.'s work through December 31, 2026 to promote economic revitalization and community development in Native communities across the United States. Through this funding, Pcnb Corp. will provide monetary awards and training opportunities to certified...

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 Project Grant award, valued at $900,000.00 and funded by the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems under CFDA Program 47.070 Computer and Information Science and Engineering, supports research at Northeastern University to enhance the security of next-generation cellular networks. The project studies security threats to machine learning algorithms used in open radio access network (Open RAN) architectures and develops solutions to protect them. Key project...

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 $255,973 National Science Foundation Project Grant will fund the development of cyber defense technologies for industrial control systems. Specifically, the awardee Blocmount Corporation will utilize machine learning, statistics, and control theory methods to build an extensible library of monitoring checks as well as an AI-based defense agent and cloud service. These products aim to provide early detection of cyberattacks targeting industrial control systems, addressing threats posed by...