Project Grant 2614551
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded the Regents of the University of California at Riverside $384,000 on October 1, 2026, through the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop theories and techniques for automating access control enforcement in decentralized microservice systems. The project addresses vulnerabilities in cloud computing architectures where policy definition and enforcement are separated and...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded The Pennsylvania State University $385,625 on July 1, 2026, for a CAREER project on comprehensive approaches to designing operating systems with higher performance, scalability, and security. The award funds research and education under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The project develops a new operating system architecture combining multiple design approaches...
- The Pennsylvania State University received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems on October 1, 2021 to support research through September 30, 2024. The grant funds the "CNS CORE: SMALL: PRINCIPLED METHODOLOGIES AND SYSTEMS SUPPORT FOR AUTOMATED COST-EFFECTIVE SERVICE BLENDING IN THE EMERGING PUBLIC CLOUD" project under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070). This program supports...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded The Pennsylvania State University $561,791 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to research security vulnerabilities in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems and develop defenses against database manipulation attacks. The project conducts a systematic study of RAG security vulnerabilities and designs three interconnected research thrusts:...
- The Pennsylvania State University was awarded a $299,992 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems. The grant is part of the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) and will support collaborative research titled "CNS CORE: MEDIUM: INFERENCE AND CONTROL IN OVERLAY NETWORKS" from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2025. The research aims to advance the development and use of cyberinfrastructure to enable...
- Federal Project Grant Summary The Pennsylvania State University received a $180,000 Project Grant awarded October 1, 2025, by the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). This collaborative research initiative addresses security vulnerabilities in Large Language Model (LLM)-integrated applications through a systematic investigation of prompt injection attacks—a class of...
- The Pennsylvania State University received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems on January 1, 2022 to support research capacity building in artificial intelligence-based anomaly detection in cybersecurity through December 31, 2023. Under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA #47.070), Penn State will collaborate with other institutions to develop research expertise focused on...
- The National Science Foundation awarded The Pennsylvania State University $1,328,423 on March 15, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to deploy advanced cyberinfrastructure connecting three Pennsylvania small institutions—Allegheny College, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, and West Chester University—to the PA Science Network and regional high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and storage resources. The project...
- 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 Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded the University of Pennsylvania $334,000 on August 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to study metastable failures in large distributed computer systems. The research develops a unified framework addressing self-sustaining failure cycles where system degradation persists even after the original triggering problem is resolved. The first thrust establishes...
The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded The Pennsylvania State University $365,400 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for research automating access control enforcement in decentralized microservice systems. The project develops theories, vulnerability testing methodologies, and automated hardening techniques to address access control enforcement vulnerabilities in cloud-based microservice architectures. Microservice systems introduce security gaps where policy-defining and policy-enforcing parties differ, and where runtime changes can create unauthorized access paths; these risks multiply with agentic microservices that operate under semantic interpretation of user intent. The research will produce principled approaches for systematic vulnerability testing and automated access control hardening, with planned release of open-source tools and training contributions for cybersecurity researchers and practitioners. The work targets improved security and resilience in microservice applications across healthcare, finance, and transportation sectors. Penn State will perform the work in State College, Pennsylvania, with a period of performance from October 1, 2026, through September 30, 2029.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $365.4k | 8/4/26 |