Project Grant 2612015
- This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070), supports the development of a novel "Dynamic Network Telescope" system. The $1.2 million grant aims to deploy and evaluate this experimental system at the Merit Network Telescope, one of the largest network telescopes available to the research community. The project will enable the Merit Network, a nonprofit regional research...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded a $1,199,623 Project Grant to Merit Network Inc., a nonprofit organization, to develop the Instrumentation for Research and Inter-institutional Security Operations Center (IRIS SOC). The IRIS SOC will monitor network traffic entering and leaving Merit's backbone network, detect and mitigate cyber threats to Merit's member institutions, and provide threat intelligence and vulnerability insights to security...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded Oklahoma State University a $242,654 Project Grant (CFDA 47.070: Computer and Information Science and Engineering) effective July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2028, to investigate the cybersecurity and network resilience capabilities of programmable switches. The primary deliverable is an expressibility map—a comprehensive technical document detailing what commodity programmable...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded the University of Southern California a $375,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) effective August 1, 2025, with completion targeted for July 31, 2028. This collaborative research initiative addresses the critical shortage of cybersecurity professionals by developing comprehensive, hands-on virtual...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded a $720,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with performance in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This collaborative research initiative, executed in partnership with the University of Washington and spanning August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2028, delivers machine learning-based...
- Federal Grant Award Summary UC San Diego has received a $900,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to develop the CANIS (Curated AI-Ready Network Telescope Datasets for Internet Security) project. The award, effective October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2028, supports the creation of a monitoring framework that ensures data integrity and...
- Summary California State University Long Beach Research Foundation received a $374,998 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, effective August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2028. The award supports development of comprehensive, hands-on virtual learning materials for teaching data science applications in cybersecurity. These materials address a critical...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a CAREER grant of $358,200 to the University of Maryland, College Park, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to develop an approximation-first telemetry architecture for hyperscale networked systems. The five-year project, which began June 1, 2026, and concludes May 31, 2031, addresses the challenge of monitoring massive...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded $374,997 to the University of Colorado-Denver under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to develop comprehensive, hands-on virtual learning materials for teaching data science in cybersecurity contexts. The project, initiated August 1, 2025, and concluding July 31, 2028, addresses the critical shortage of qualified cybersecurity...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded a $1.2M Project Grant to Northeastern University from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). The grant supports research to develop next-generation resilient cloud infrastructure to secure scientific cyberinfrastructures including network-attached accelerators. Key focus areas include identifying advanced network-layer attack...
Merit Network Inc. received a $545,269 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for the period September 1, 2026, through August 31, 2029. The award funds SCOPE-X (Scalable Cyberinfrastructure for Observatory Pipeline Enhancement), which advances the cyberinfrastructure of ORION (Observatory for Cyber-Risk Insights and Outages of Networks)—one of the oldest and largest operational network telescopes in the United States. The project delivers three integrated products: resilient, adaptive packet capture systems to maintain data fidelity during high-speed traffic and dynamic attack patterns; artificial intelligence-ready curated datasets with improved cleaning, feature engineering, contextual metadata enrichment, and threat intelligence integration; and modernized dataset delivery mechanisms using application programming interfaces, code-to-data environments, and sustainable release mechanisms aligned with FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data principles. These deliverables enable scalable passive network monitoring and machine learning-ready cybersecurity datasets for detecting rare and emerging threats. The resulting software, datasets, and access mechanisms broaden research community access to real-world security data, support student training, and strengthen national cybersecurity capabilities through earlier detection and analysis of internet threats. Merit Network operates ORION's 20-year traffic archive and live feed serving shared cybersecurity research across federal agencies and academic institutions.SCOPE-X Project Grant Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $545.3k | 6/3/26 |