Project Grant HDTRA10910019

This Project Grant from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency provides $668,000 in funding under the Scientific Research - Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction federal grant program (CFDA 12.351) to support fundamental research to counter weapons of mass destruction. Specifically, the University of California, Berkeley will utilize molecular dynamics simulations to understand how random heteropolymers arrange within and around metal organic frameworks and provide functions such as stabilizing...

This $190,321 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program aims to (A) advance modeling of potential risks in technological systems, (B) apply new methods to diverse industry and regulatory settings, and (C) develop an educational platform for socio-technical risk analysis. The principal investigator will work with senior experts in organizational psychology and behavior, risk regulation and...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $300,000 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 accelerate nuclear forensics data processing and reporting. The University of Florida will develop state-of-the-art analytical methods, coding tools, and theoretical calculations to rapidly identify and quantify elemental and isotopic constituents in radioactive fallout...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction office under the National Nuclear Forensics Expertise Development Program (CFDA 97.130) provides $298,839 to the University of Central Florida (UCF) to investigate the Raman signatures of transition metals in uranium dioxide, a potential component of a radiological dispersal device. The research aims to understand how these transition metals are distributed between the...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $2,373,651 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to the Regents of the University of Michigan - Office of Research and Sponsored Projects Division (University of Michigan) to conduct research on "Understanding Social Network-Transcendent Online/Offline Behavioral Dynamics: From Data to Models to Prediction." The key objectives are to develop new network alignment models, semi-supervised...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) provides $350,000 to develop a simulation infrastructure to model dynamic information flow through human networks. The project aims to create an agent-based modeling tool that can predict how information propagates and is consumed within a network, evaluating the effectiveness of different interventions. The goal is to provide a scalable, empirically...

The Department of State's Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation awarded a $103,658 cooperative agreement to Health Security Partners under the Global Threat Reduction program (CFDA 19.033) to support the Regional Experts Group to Prevent Illicit Acquisition of Weaponizable Biological Materials, Equipment, and Dual Use Research of Concern (DURC) Equipment from October 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023. The cooperative agreement will support the Regional Experts Group in...

This $265,948 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will support research to improve the scientific integrity of human-centered threat modeling for software security. The principal investigator from Tufts University will conduct qualitative studies and controlled experiments in four key areas: (1) investigations of current threat modeling practices, (2) assessments of task design...

This $257,914 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), will develop a national cyberinfrastructure called the Human Dynamics and Resilience Infrastructure (HNDS-I) to advance disaster resilience research. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing four new integrated databases from sources like social media and cell-phone mobility...

The U.S. Department of State's Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund (CFDA 19.224) awarded a $1,397,529 Cooperative Agreement to the RAND Corporation on October 1, 2024 to develop and pilot a guide to assist AI developers in securing their AI systems from physical and cyber threats that could enable the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The award aims to address emerging global security challenges related to the potential misuse of artificial intelligence technology. As the prime...