This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Project Grant, with the official CFDA number 47.070, provides $225,000 in funding to George Mason University to establish a collaborative ecosystem to bolster the resilience of the electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure in the U.S. transportation sector. The key products and services to be delivered under this 4-year grant include:
Developing advanced fingerprinting techniques and automated web scraping algorithms to identify and analyze vulnerabilities in internet-connected EV management systems (EVMS). Leveraging industry connections, the project will also acquire EVMS source code and artifacts for comprehensive vulnerability analysis and disclosure. Additionally, the project will create a large-scale data and threat repository to index discovered threat models and vulnerabilities, democratizing knowledge to empower EVMS-centric threat situational awareness and foster further research and development. This multidisciplinary initiative aims to enhance the resilience of the critical EV charging infrastructure by proactively identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities.