Project Grant DESC0013840

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) program (CFDA 81.008) provides $5,583,698.00 to the Electric Power Research Institute Inc. (EPRI) to develop an integrated, automated system to identify third-party and potential zero-day vulnerabilities, verify their exploitability dynamically, and create a feedback loop for rapid enhancement of static analysis capabilities. The objectives of this 3-year...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Award Overview: Operant Networks, Inc. received a $4.8M cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security & Emergency Response (CESER) program (CFDA 81.008), effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028. The award supports the development and demonstration of a Crypto-Agile and Adaptable Data-Centric Zero Trust Architecture (DZTA) designed to enhance cybersecurity protections for operational...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $250,000 Project Grant under the Congressionally-Identified Projects program (CFDA 11.617) to Norwich University Applied Research Institutes LTD (Nuari) to develop an advanced cybersecurity architecture tailored for additive manufacturing operational technology. Nuari will collaborate with academic and commercial partners to devise this architecture, which aims to preemptively detect vulnerabilities and potential cyber threats...

Protection Engineering Consultants LLC was awarded a $199,765 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 21, 2023 to develop a NETWORK RISK ASSESSMENT TOOLKIT (NETRAT). The period of performance for the award is February 21, 2023 through January 20, 2024. The award was made under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The program supports the Office of Science's mission to deliver scientific discoveries and tools that transform...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $200,000 Project Grant (CFDA 81.049) to Bluerisc Inc., a small business cybersecurity technology company based in Amherst, Massachusetts. The grant, with a period of performance from July 2024 to April 2025, supports the development of a "Nuclear I & C Cyber Risk Modeling Toolkit." This project aims to create advanced modeling and simulation tools for assessing and mitigating cyber risks in nuclear instrumentation and control...

This $600,000 National Science Foundation project grant will fund the development of an Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Vulnerability Assessment and Remediation framework at Colorado State University-Pueblo from August 2022 to July 2025. The framework aims to address challenges in effectively assessing and prioritizing the hundreds of thousands of vulnerabilities often identified across multiple virtual environments in cloud infrastructures through two research thrusts. The first thrust will...

This $800,000 Project Grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy under the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA 81.121), will fund research, development, and demonstration activities at the Georgia Institute of Technology's Georgia Tech Research Corporation. The project aims to advance nuclear energy science and technology to meet U.S. energy, environmental, and national security needs. Specific areas of focus include existing...

This $12,500,035 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Cybersecurity, Energy Security & Emergency Response (CESER) program (CFDA 81.008) to Auburn University aims to establish a Model Regional Operations Center to enhance the cybersecurity of the U.S. electricity sector in the Southeastern region. The project seeks to improve collaboration, fill operational technology gaps, increase cybersecurity awareness and workforce, and enhance the resiliency of the regional...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $199,542 to Purdue University to develop reaction mechanisms and experimental validation frameworks to mitigate the impact of sophisticated cyber attacks on smart power distribution systems. The key objectives are to: 1) investigate vulnerabilities of load tap changers (LTCs) in power distribution systems to cyber attacks targeting voltage collapse; 2) design primary and backup reaction...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) under the Cybersecurity, Energy Security & Emergency Response (CESER) program (CFDA 81.008) provides $3,476,589 to Iowa State University of Science and Technology to develop a holistic, end-to-end zero trust (ZT)-enabled cyber situational awareness platform that incorporates cyber resilience and attack resilient control algorithms for securing...