Project Grant DESC0017782

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Homeland Security's Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) office, under the National Nuclear Forensics Expertise Development Program (CFDA 97.130), provides $300,000 over 3 years to the University of Florida to develop new methods and tools for rapidly separating and quantifying actinides, fission, and activation products in nuclear forensics debris samples. The key products and services to be delivered include: 1) Experimental...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, totaling $465,628, will support the development of a novel and customizable Android container-based virtualization architecture for dynamic malware analysis from December 2022 through September 2024. Led by researchers at Tulane University, this project introduces a transparent malware analysis environment capable of handling evasive Android malware through innovative application...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070), supports research and development to create innovative distributed security frameworks for next-generation mobile network systems. The key products and services to be delivered under this $138,295 award include: 1) developing distributed public-key infrastructure (PKI) and symmetric-key cryptography schemes compliant with NIST...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Homeland Security's Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction office under the National Nuclear Forensics Expertise Development Program (CFDA 97.130) aims to investigate the Raman signatures of transition metals in uranium dioxide, a potential component of a radiological dispersal device (RDD). The $298,839 project, awarded to the University of Central Florida, will focus on analyzing the distribution of these transition metals between the...

This two-year, $344,422 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to develop a novel geo-distributed data analytics system. The University of Nebraska at Omaha will design and implement an open-source system to optimize cloud resource configurations for processing geo-distributed analytics queries across diverse compute resources and wide-area networks in a timely and cost-efficient manner. The system will determine optimal...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the CFDA 47.070 Computer and Information Science and Engineering program to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY) to develop an open cloud-based "CTF5G" platform for cybersecurity training and workforce development focused on 5G network security. The key products to be delivered through this 2-year project are: Automating the workflow for setting up 5G network-based...

This $149,990 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research to develop a resilient next-generation (NextG) mobile network design to enable secure and efficient federated learning over large-scale heterogeneous mobile devices. The key focus areas include: Exploiting serverless computing at the network edge to provide resilient and efficient machine learning services to support...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) Project Grant award of $166,924 aims to enhance privacy leak detection in mobile applications by identifying and analyzing sources of domain-sensitive user data. The key products and services to be delivered include: Conducting a crowdsourcing study to categorize domain-sensitive data within mobile app user interfaces. Developing a novel approach using static and...

This three-year, $225,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) will support research to develop security and privacy solutions for 5G and beyond cellular networks. The Regents of the University of California at Riverside, in collaboration with researchers in Japan, will pursue technical tasks to design a heterogeneous data plane framework combining multiple programmable data plane devices for network...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award of $174,555 to the President and Board of Trustees of Santa Clara College will create a Systematic Mobile App Review (SMAR) tool and guidelines. The tool will assist researchers in evaluating mobile apps across domains like education, health, and mental health, to help ensure they are safe, effective, and user-friendly. The project will involve a systematic...