Project Grant 2623285
- The National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education awarded the University of Hawaii at Manoa $250,000 on September 1, 2026, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop AgentSec, a scenario-based educational platform for teaching undergraduate students to secure autonomous artificial intelligence systems. The platform will enable students to safely investigate, attack, and defend AI agents in controlled environments through three progressive modules addressing...
- 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 Winston-Salem State University $496,376 on September 1, 2026, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop modular AI security curriculum for the public sector workforce. The project will embed AI security concepts into four self-contained teaching units integrated into existing healthcare management, education, and computer science courses. The units will cover how AI systems fail or face attack, how to evaluate...
- North Carolina A&T State University received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the federal STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop a learning platform and education curriculum for artificial intelligence-driven cybersecurity. The two-year award, made on June 1, 2021 with a completion date of May 31, 2023, will support the university's collaborative research project titled "EAGER: SATC-EDU: Learning Platform and Education Curriculum for...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education awarded North Carolina State University $1,594,160 on August 1, 2026, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to advance data-driven technologies and artificial intelligence integration for problem-solving in STEM learning environments. The project develops a framework for personalized instruction across three foundational STEM domains—logic, probability, and programming—using data-driven and AI-supported technologies....
- The National Science Foundation Division of Graduate Education awarded Texas Tech University $249,848 on September 1, 2026, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop and deliver an artificial intelligence agent-centered cybersecurity education framework. The project will create curriculum modules, hands-on laboratory exercises, and project-based learning activities organized around four core areas: foundations of AI agents, core cybersecurity principles, AI agents for security...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education awarded George Mason University $166,666 on September 1, 2026, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop a modular, hands-on curriculum and low-barrier web-based learning platform for cybersecurity competence in agentic artificial intelligence systems. The curriculum addresses security risks introduced by autonomous AI systems deployed across government agencies, critical infrastructure, and private industry by...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Graduate Education awarded the University of Texas at Dallas $167,657 on September 1, 2026, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop a modular, hands-on curriculum and low-barrier web-based learning platform for cybersecurity competence in agentic artificial intelligence systems. The curriculum will cover secure agent deployment, adversarial inputs and prompt security, secure orchestration with tools and memory, secure external...
- 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...
- This $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University aims to train a diverse research workforce to develop and use fair, ethical, and unbiased AI-based cybersecurity solutions for cloud computing infrastructure. The project will develop and integrate seven advanced experiential learning modules, referred to as AI4SecureCI, into...
The National Science Foundation Division of Graduate Education awarded North Carolina State University $250,000 on September 1, 2026, under the STEM Education program to develop AgentSec, a scenario-based educational platform for teaching undergraduate students to secure autonomous artificial intelligence systems. The platform enables students to safely investigate, attack, and defend AI agents in controlled environments through three progressive modules addressing data ingestion, tool-action, and multi-step reasoning-chain security risks. Students complete red-team exercises, blue-team defenses, structured reflection, and transfer challenges using containerized sandboxes that provide agents with controlled access to web content, email, files, code execution, APIs, and databases. The project targets more than 500 students and will produce open-source software, instructional materials, and reusable scenarios for nationwide adoption. The award funds development of a transferable framework for AI agent security education and authentic hands-on learning environments, with assessment combining execution-trace checks, strategy rubrics, an AI tutoring agent, instructor analytics, and a scenario authoring toolkit. A cross-institutional mixed-methods evaluation will examine usability and learning outcomes. Performance occurs at North Carolina State University's Raleigh, North Carolina campus with a period of performance through August 31, 2029. The assistance type is a Project Grant.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $250.0k | 8/13/26 |