Project Grant 2623184
- The National Science Foundation Division of Graduate Education awarded The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York $330,000 on August 1, 2026, to develop and disseminate a scalable, low-cost toolkit for hands-on education in securing artificial intelligence-enabled manufacturing systems. The award funds development of a six-module experiential curriculum covering trustworthy AI foundations, agentic threat detection, retrieval-augmented generation for defensive knowledge...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Graduate Education awarded $500,000 to the University of Southern California on September 1, 2026, to develop instructional resources and graduate-level curriculum for agentic cybersecurity engineering under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076). The project, titled "Agentic Cybersecurity Engineering for Artificial Intelligence" (ACE), addresses the shortage of cybersecurity professionals qualified to design, deploy, and secure AI agents...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $235,255 project grant to Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc. under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) federal grant program (CFDA 47.076). The grant will support the development and delivery of twelve experiential learning activity sets focused on raising security awareness among college students for designing trustworthy, deep learning-based applications. The activities are intended to concretize learners'...
- The National Science Foundation awarded the University of Alabama $327,717 on February 1, 2026, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop a new curriculum on artificial intelligence security threats to robotic systems. The project runs through May 31, 2027, with place of performance in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The University of Alabama is developing seven self-contained, adaptive instructional modules addressing AI security in robotics, covering attack surfaces and penetration...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Graduate Education awarded Auburn University $299,978 on July 1, 2026, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop and evaluate a modular curriculum framework for cybersecurity and artificial intelligence education. Auburn will design, prototype, and evaluate instructional materials addressing AI-native cyber threat environments and agentic AI concepts within cybersecurity instruction. The project scope includes developing reusable...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Graduate Education awarded Augusta University Research Institute, Inc. (doing business as Georgia Health Sciences) $1,999,098 on August 1, 2026, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to design and operate a cybersecurity and artificial intelligence scholar preparation program. The recipient will deliver a focused-area cyber program that educates and prepares undergraduate and graduate students in cybersecurity, cyber operations,...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Graduate Education awarded Clemson University $250,000 on September 1, 2026, for collaborative research under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop an AI agent-centered cybersecurity education framework. The project, running through August 31, 2029, will create curriculum modules, hands-on laboratories, and project-based learning activities that train students to understand both the benefits and security challenges of artificial...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Graduate Education awarded $441,645 to the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa on September 1, 2026, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop AI-enhanced cybersecurity education and expand workforce capacity in that field. The recipient will develop six open-access, AI-enhanced modules integrated into an existing cyber data analytics certificate, covering adversarial machine learning, AI-driven threat detection, and AI pipeline security,...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Graduate Education awarded $500,000 to the University of Virginia on August 1, 2026, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop and deliver instructional materials and assessment methods for adversarial causal reasoning in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. The project creates course materials, a hands-on practice system, instructor support resources, and measurement tools to teach cybersecurity professionals how to evaluate...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded $600,000 to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. on August 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to build and operate a hybrid cyber-physical testbed for manufacturing security research. The project constructs a publicly accessible, annotated security dataset for manufacturing cyberinfrastructure by integrating a fully instrumented assembly testbed...
The National Science Foundation Division of Graduate Education awarded the University of Georgia Research Foundation $170,000 on August 1, 2026, to develop and disseminate a low-cost, scalable toolkit for hands-on education in securing artificial intelligence–enabled manufacturing systems. The award supports the CyberAI Innovation project, funded under the CyberAI Corps Scholarship for Service program (CFDA 47.076, STEM Education). The project will create a six-module experiential curriculum on trustworthy AI in cyber-physical systems, using a cloud-edge-client testbed that combines secure digital twins with low-cost edge-computing kits. Curriculum modules will address trustworthy AI foundations, agentic threat detection, retrieval-augmented generation for defensive knowledge synthesis, edge hardware security, physics-informed verification of autonomous mitigation actions, and multi-agent swarm defense. Large language model agents will emulate context-aware cyber-physical attacks in isolated simulations and provide real-time, physics-informed guidance. The project will release curriculum modules, digital-twin environments, datasets, and hardware blueprints as open-source resources through a national portal, train-the-trainer activities, and an annual hackathon, expanding access for community colleges and under-resourced institutions. Performance occurs in Athens, Georgia. The period of performance runs from August 1, 2026, through July 31, 2029.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $170.0k | 7/29/26 |