Project Grant 2536467
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $299,962 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070) to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado-Denver. The project aims to develop a gamified education platform centered around story-driven educational hacking games to attract Generation Z to the cybersecurity workforce. The platform will utilize...
- This $265,948 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports research to improve the reliability and scientific integrity of threat modeling experiments in software security. The project aims to develop best practices for conducting human-centered threat modeling studies, which are essential for ensuring software is secure. Key research activities include qualitative investigations of current...
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant award, provided through the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports a postdoctoral fellowship for an early-career scientist to study human decision-making, learning, and innovation in novel systems of rules and reward. The $160,000 award, spanning January 1, 2026 to December 31, 2027, will be used to conduct large-scale behavioral studies, including human-human gameplay experiments, to empirically validate a...
- This $100,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program focuses on improving personal account security through the design of secure account management tools and frameworks. The research aims to advance the science of digital account security and foster safer digital ecosystems for people facing targeted attacks. Key objectives include: 1) understanding the experiences of targets, support professionals, and abusive...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) in the amount of $200,282 provides funding to North Carolina State University to conduct research on understanding and overcoming impediments to high-risk, high-return science. The researchers will develop and analyze mathematical models to examine how scientists balance competing incentives and constraints when pursuing their research programs, with a focus on...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.083 - Integrative Activities) will examine how U.S. research institutions understand and approach their cybersecurity responsibilities under evolving federal research security policies, including those outlined in National Security Presidential Memorandum-33 (NSPM-33). The $199,999 project, awarded to Arizona State University (ASU), will map the differences in how institutions interpret requirements, align current practices...
- This $200,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports research at Michigan State University to develop data-driven modeling techniques for securing cyber-physical systems. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the two-year award will create automated strategies using reinforcement learning to characterize attacker intent. Researchers will integrate defense approaches combining game theory, reinforcement learning and Bayesian...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $341k project grant to Northeastern University under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) for research titled "Making Security Work: Vulnerability Disclosure Programs (VDPs) and the Organizational Foundations of Cybersecurity." The two-year project examines how organizations adopt and sustain vulnerability disclosure programs to crowdsource security work from independent researchers. Through qualitative and...
- This three-year, $600,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to improve computing security and privacy tools and processes for scientific end-users. The University of Maryland, College Park will investigate how scientists currently learn about and implement security-relevant behaviors for their equipment and data through surveys, interviews, documentation review, and other methods. Insights on existing tools,...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $100,000.00 in funding to George Washington University to investigate security and privacy practices within ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities. The project aims to 1) provide scientific insight into the dynamics between modern technology, societal restrictions, and their impact on security and privacy, and 2) understand the technical and social mechanisms...
This $300,000 Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), will create a gamified behavioral experiment to study how security policies affect compliance and collaboration decisions among U.S. researchers. The project aims to overcome reluctance in the research community to participate in "research on research security" by using a gamified approach to uncover base rates for security compliance behaviors and decision-making. This will establish methodological best practices and empirical benchmarks to advance the research security field. The findings will help policymakers, funding agencies, and research institutions craft adaptive security policies that preserve scientific openness while mitigating risk. The project will also train graduate students in the field of research security.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $300.0k | 8/29/25 |