Project Grant FA95502410131

This $1,600,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) aims to improve the resilience of space systems against cyber attacks. The grant supports the development of new cryptographic techniques and distributed algorithms to prevent, mitigate, and recover from cyber attacks on space systems, taking into account the unique characteristics of space-based architectures. The key research activities...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, with a total funding of $299,999, aims to design and implement an accessible training framework to equip researchers with the skills required for operating cyberinfrastructure in outer space. The primary objectives are to create a virtual testbed environment for space cyberinfrastructure and develop training materials through two workshops, one for experienced...

This $200,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports research at Michigan State University to develop data-driven modeling techniques for securing cyber-physical systems. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the two-year award will create automated strategies using reinforcement learning to characterize attacker intent. Researchers will integrate defense approaches combining game theory, reinforcement learning and Bayesian...

This $109,930 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to develop an advanced cyberinfrastructure that integrates artificial intelligence (AI) with diverse space weather data to improve forecasting of extreme space weather events. The project, led by The Johns Hopkins University, will apply generative AI models to enhance historical solar data, enabling more accurate predictive analyses of...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $749,999 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program. The grant will fund research to develop techniques enabling the Department of Defense to securely leverage commercial 5G wireless networks for mission-critical operations globally. The university will create three components. The first takes advantage of programmable data planes to facilitate path measurements and shift...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program provides $205,557 to the University of Alabama to conduct research and education related to cyber-resilient navigation for autonomous systems. The key objectives are to: (1) understand and assess cyber threat uncertainties of integrated positioning and navigation systems, (2) model self-learning based cyber-attacks, (3) formulate cyber-attack detection algorithms,...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), aims to develop an advanced cyberinfrastructure that integrates artificial intelligence (AI) with diverse space weather data to improve forecasting of extreme space weather events. The $199,534 award to the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), with a performance period from Jul 1, 2025 to Jun 30, 2028, will enable the...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.083 - Integrative Activities) will examine how U.S. research institutions understand and approach their cybersecurity responsibilities under evolving federal research security policies, including those outlined in National Security Presidential Memorandum-33 (NSPM-33). The $199,999 project, awarded to Arizona State University (ASU), will map the differences in how institutions interpret requirements, align current practices...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems and Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) provides $500,000 to Stanford University to develop risk-aware planning and control strategies for safe human-cyber physical system interactions. The award will advance the state-of-the-art in cyber-physical-human system planning and control through computationally tractable risk-aware trajectory planning...

The National Science Foundation awarded $512,000 under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program (CFDA 47.084) to Cyberspara, Inc. to develop an online simulation product that engages citizens in cybersecurity simulations and implements evidence-based learning research. The project will create an effective, standards-based approach for teaching cybersecurity awareness and best practices to school-age populations. By using developmentally appropriate instructional...