Project Grant DESC0020763

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, CFDA 47.070, provides $509,008 to the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) to develop secure containers specifically tailored for high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructures. The project aims to address security challenges in HPC environments that commonly employ containers, such as insecure container images and vulnerabilities related to isolation. The...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund $250,000 to develop automated analyses that improve the security of open-source operating system kernels. The Regents of the University of California at Riverside will receive the award to conduct research from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025. A large number of downstream operating system kernels are derived from upstream kernels like Linux to reduce development costs....

This Project Grant award, valued at $108,510.00 and awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), aims to develop a comprehensive solution to provide security and safety-assured industrial control systems (ICS) against malicious cyber-attacks. The project's key objectives are to: 1) develop insightful hybrid automata learning to capture physical invariants and enable system operators to understand detection results, 2) design a real-time provably safe...

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...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, issued by the 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 $4,087,807 to GE Vernova Operations LLC to develop and demonstrate the Universal Utility Data Exchange (UUDEX) framework as a potential replacement for the Inter-Control Center Communications Protocol (ICCP) standard. The project aims to...

This $240,389 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Computer and Network Systems (CFDA 47.070: Computer and Information Science and Engineering) supports research at the University of Utah on a new operating system architecture called NGOS. The key goals are to improve the security, reliability, and performance of modern operating systems by incorporating novel approaches for isolation, language safety, and formal verification of the kernel. The proposed...

This three-year, $250,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to improve open-source operating system kernel security through automated analyses. The Regents of the University of Minnesota will develop techniques to reason about patches, bug behaviors, and their impacts across decentralized kernel ecosystems. Specifically, the awardee will analyze upstream patches to identify those fixing critical issues,...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program provides $222,427 to Purdue University to secure deeply embedded software (DES) systems. The project aims to develop novel software security techniques and tools to address inherent challenges in DES, including diverse hardware/software environments, resource limitations, and legacy code. Key products include: 1) a method for hosting DES on Linux...

Red Balloon Security, Inc. was awarded a $682,189 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to develop firmware protections for 5G wireless infrastructure devices and end-user devices. Under the award, Red Balloon Security will apply its host-based embedded firmware defense technologies to automate the integration of passive and active protections into the platform and radio front-end firmware used in 5G infrastructure devices. For...

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) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 81.008) provides $4,200,000 to develop and demonstrate the DERGUARD framework. DERGUARD is an automated system for securing distributed energy resource (DER) devices against cyber attacks by discovering vulnerabilities and applying mitigations. The...