Project Grant 2548993
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University $291,000 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for collaborative research establishing a systematic security foundation for next-generation cellular networks. The project develops a data-centric security model for future cellular systems based on named data networking (NDN) to replace current...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded the University of Miami $300,000 on March 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop privacy-preserving and secure integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems for 5G and beyond wireless networks. The project, executed in collaboration with the German Research Foundation (DFG), addresses dual-use security and privacy challenges inherent in systems that...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded Mississippi State University $899,933 on July 15, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop trustworthy, resilient, and scalable security techniques for open radio access networks (O-RAN) used in 5G and 6G deployments. The project addresses security risks introduced by disaggregated network architectures where components from multiple vendors interact without...
- This three-year, $225,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) will support research to develop security and privacy solutions for 5G and beyond cellular networks. The Regents of the University of California at Riverside, in collaboration with researchers in Japan, will pursue technical tasks to design a heterogeneous data plane framework combining multiple programmable data plane devices for network...
- The National Science Foundation awarded the University of South Florida $300,000 on March 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop privacy-preserving and secure integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems for 5G and beyond wireless networks. The research addresses security and privacy challenges inherent in ISAC systems, which use a single signal for both sensing and data transmission. The project develops a holistic zero...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded $559,850 to the University of South Florida on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for collaborative research on quantum-secure and artificial intelligence-enabled next-generation cellular networks. The project develops methods to protect wireless networks from emerging threats posed by future quantum computers, malicious network infrastructure,...
- 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 National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded The Pennsylvania State University $600,000 on August 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop privacy-preserving, verifiable datasets capturing control-plane signaling behavior in fifth-generation and future wireless networks. The project creates methods for collecting, validating, sanitizing, and analyzing control-plane data across user devices, radio access...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the University of Oklahoma to conduct research on improving wireless network security designs. The 3-year project aims to: (i) create stronger adversary models to understand the limitations of security in IoT systems leveraging wireless channel properties, and (ii) design new defense strategies to advance the state-of-the-art in wireless network...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded North Carolina State University a $601,966 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for the period of January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2024. The grant funds research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SATC: CORE: MEDIUM: ENABLING PRACTICALLY SECURE CELLULAR INFRASTRUCTURE" which aims to advance the development and use of research cyberinfrastructure to...
The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded the University of California, Los Angeles $201,000 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to establish a systematic security foundation for next-generation cellular networks. The project develops a data-centric trust model for cellular network security based on named data networking, moving away from traditional session-based approaches. The recipient will develop formal trust models for multi-operator and multi-tenant cellular environments, build prototype implementations, and evaluate their security, efficiency, and resilience using artificial intelligence. The work addresses security challenges in cloud-native network architectures that dynamically scale across distributed infrastructures by embedding cryptographic credentials, semantic names, and trust rules directly into data exchanges rather than relying on session establishment between communicating entities. The resulting open-source software, prototype systems, and experimental tools will support research and education in networking and cybersecurity. Performance occurs in Los Angeles, California through September 30, 2029.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $201.0k | 8/6/26 |