Project Grant 2239609

This five-year, $492,055 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will fund research and education activities at the University of Texas at El Paso to enhance critical infrastructure resiliency. Specifically, the university will develop overhead-aware provenance frameworks to incorporate implicit resiliency and assure trustworthiness in operational technology environments. It will also design distributed information sharing models to promote reciprocity and reduce risks of cyber exploitation across critical infrastructure stakeholders. As part of these efforts, the university will educate students and teachers on critical infrastructure security and disseminate related knowledge nationally. The research spans computer science, cybersecurity, engineering, economics and other fields and aims to advance understanding of data and process provenance for cyber resiliency and factors enabling information sharing reciprocity. The grant began June 1, 2023 and runs through May 31, 2028.