Project Grant 2627426
- The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded Louisiana State University $298,950 on May 1, 2026, under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to support research securing next-generation advanced driver assistance systems through multi-phase safety assurance. The award funds a Research Infrastructure Improvement EPSCOR Research Fellows fellowship providing support to an assistant professor and training for a graduate student. The research develops methods to...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Louisiana Tech University received a $189,936 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) on September 1, 2025, to conduct research addressing artificial intelligence (AI) acceptance in rural coastal communities. The three-phase project will deliver research findings and methodologies focused on understanding and improving how AI systems incorporate local knowledge from rural...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded Louisiana State University $388,063 on May 15, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop a research framework for measuring and defending against interactive social engineering attacks through scambaiting community knowledge. The research analyzes practices of the scambaiting ecosystem—individuals who deliberately engage scammers in real-time conversations to...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded Louisiana TECH University $599,982 on August 1, 2026, to develop open cyberinfrastructure for automated synthesis of AI models to hardware under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The project establishes a shared, open platform that enables automated, interoperable, and reproducible translation of AI models into optimized hardware designs. The work develops a unified, open...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded Louisiana State University $425,998 on September 1, 2026, to develop AI-enabled digital twins for predicting and managing cascading disruptions in freshwater infrastructure systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The research advances three primary directions: enabling AI-driven predictive digital twins for small and mid-sized freshwater infrastructure systems; developing...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Louisiana State University received a $523,553 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), awarded October 1, 2025, with completion targeted for September 30, 2029. This Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program grant delivers authentic research experiences and professional development services to approximately 30 practicing middle school STEM teachers over three years....
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded Louisiana State University $471,822 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to research and develop methods for measuring, characterizing, and mitigating malicious bot campaigns operated through bot farms. The project develops a longitudinal bot farm measurement framework to collect forensic data on real-world campaigns targeting websites across multiple...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded Louisiana State University $300,912 on April 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop practical methods for securing software systems against quantum computing threats. The project creates a quantitative quantum-readiness index that measures system-level quantum risk, a dependency-aware analysis connecting vulnerable cryptography to surrounding software...
- The National Science Foundation awarded Saint Louis University $180,000 on September 1, 2026, under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to characterize security risks posed by externally sourced digital resources—including datasets, annotations, metadata, software, and pretrained models—entering biological AI workflows used in agricultural and environmental research. The project identifies where external digital dependencies enter biological discovery pipelines, maps their...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded Louisiana State University $299,847 on August 15, 2026, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop mathematical foundations for machine learning applied to complex stochastic systems. Work performance runs through July 31, 2029, at Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The project addresses learning and inference challenges for systems that evolve over time in the presence of randomness, with...
The National Science Foundation awarded Louisiana State University $302,955 on September 1, 2026, under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to develop a systematic measure of AI-mediated appropriability risk—the extent to which a field's open scientific record, combined with frontier AI capabilities, allows outsiders to predict and potentially preempt near-term research outputs. The project addresses three connected research questions. The team develops a measurement instrument comparing forecasts from large language models with those from panels of domain experts and analysts using conventional open-source intelligence methods, yielding estimates of AI's lead-time advantage in months. The work analyzes which features of scientific fields—such as their maturity, rate of discovery, or reliance on open disclosure—determine exposure to AI-mediated forecasting. The project also identifies specific research domains at highest risk of preemption by foreign competitors leveraging AI tools to analyze publicly accessible preprints, code, and data. The research provides federal agencies, preprint platforms, and university research security offices with an empirical basis for decisions protecting the security and competitiveness of the U.S. research enterprise. The project trains graduate students in research security methods, addressing documented national workforce needs. Performance occurs in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with a period of performance from September 1, 2026, through August 31, 2028. Louisiana State University serves as the prime recipient.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $303.0k | 8/7/26 |