This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under their Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084), provides $1,499,989.00 to Purdue University to create a comprehensive knowledge graph detailing software components across diverse software ecosystems and facilitate tools to detect and automatically fix software vulnerabilities. The project aims to advance research on software supply chain management and risk mitigation by developing advanced...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program provides $391,848 to Purdue University to develop holistic systems for securing the machine learning supply chain. The project aims to create tools to quantify trust in machine learning supply chains and verify security requirements across those supply chains. The research will also support the development of a diverse next generation of computer...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $1,500,000 to New York University to build an open-source ecosystem called "SBOMIT" that aims to enhance the security and transparency of software supply chains. The SBOMIT ecosystem utilizes the existing "in-toto" open-source framework to apply cryptographic verification and attestations across the software development lifecycle,...
Purdue University was awarded a $299,934 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Graduate Education to support the development of a novel proactive and collaborative cybersecurity education learning paradigm focused on artificial intelligence. Funded under the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education program (CFDA #47.076), the two-year project will create and evaluate new educational materials and approaches for teaching cybersecurity in the context of...
Purdue University was awarded a $599,999 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA #47.070) program. The funding will support research to develop techniques for testing and detecting software upgrade failures in data-intensive distributed systems, which are critical components of many cloud-based computing services. Key objectives include implementing differential testing...
This $519,165 five-year Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports Purdue University's research and education plan to investigate cybersecurity risks in next-generation transportation infrastructure. The project conducts security analysis, recommends defense solutions, and evaluates system performance under various attack scenarios, with the goal of informing public agencies on developing standards and policies. The research is...
Purdue University will provide supply chain optimization services and establish an intelligence network through a $400,000 cooperative agreement award from the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology. The two-year award, made under the Manufacturing Extension Partnership program, will fund efforts to map Indiana's supply chain ecosystem in critical technology areas, collect data on domestic supply chain vulnerabilities from original equipment manufacturers and...
Purdue University was awarded a $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation. The grant falls under the NSF Directorate for Engineering's CFDA 47.041 Engineering program to support the collaborative research project "Data-Driven Metrology and Inspection Technology for Semiconductor Wafer-Level Manufacturing." The three-year project beginning November 2021 aims to develop data-driven metrology and inspection...
Purdue University was awarded a $496,450 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024. The grant supports research titled "CNS CORE: SMALL: AUTOMATED TESTING FOR DATA- AND COMPUTE-INTENSIVE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS THROUGH FEEDBACK-BASED FUZZING" under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070). This program aims to advance computing, communications, and information...
This $636,487 five-year federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to develop a holistic framework for securing the continuous software development pipeline. The University of Delaware, the prime recipient, will comprehensively inspect the entire continuous software development process to identify and mitigate emerging software supply chain security threats. The project will involve three...