The U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration has awarded a $1,999,333 Cooperative Agreement under the Reentry Employment Opportunities (CFDA 17.270) program to Access Connections To Success, a non-profit organization located in Southaven, Mississippi. The grant, which runs from March 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028, will fund comprehensive workforce development services to help justice-involved individuals improve employment outcomes and reduce recidivism. Key services...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $598,636 to the Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY) to develop "Open Choreographies," a new programming paradigm for building correct distributed and concurrent software systems. The key products and services to be delivered include: Invention of "Open Choreographies" - a choreographic...
This National Science Foundation project grant supports research into composable verification of crash-safe distributed systems through Grove, a new approach that allows modular formal verification of distributed system components in the presence of crashes. With a total award amount of $249,998, the grant runs from March 15, 2023 through May 31, 2026. The work directly addresses challenges in reasoning about crash recovery in distributed systems where individual nodes can crash and reboot, as...
The Ohio State University was awarded a $499,998 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems. The grant supports the "CNS CORE: SMALL: RETHINKING HIGH-PERFORMANCE PERSISTENT TRANSACTIONS" project under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070). This three-year project beginning October 1, 2021 aims to advance research on high-performance persistent transactions. The Computer and Information Science and...
The National Center for Policing Innovation (NCPI) was awarded a $350,000 Cooperative Agreement by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710). The funding will support the continued delivery of the Crisis Intervention Teams Adaptive System of Supports for Implementation and Specialized Training (CIT ASSIST) program, a national initiative designed to...
This $250,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program supports research to develop domain-specific 3D ReRAM-based Processing-in-Memory (PIM) accelerators for streaming time series applications. The collaboration between researchers at UC Riverside, Arizona State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Washington State University aims to define CBA-PIM accelerators for time series data analytics,...
This $250,000 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the CFDA 47.070 Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to transform online computer science theory education. The University of Chicago, University of Illinois, and Utah University are collaborating to develop innovative online exercises that provide more equitable and inclusive learning experiences for a broad set of students. The key products being developed include: 1) Isolated skill...
The Connecticut Office of Policy and Management (OPM) was awarded a $2,000,000 cooperative agreement under the National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP, CFDA 16.554) by the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics. The award will fund the following projects: Sustaining repository switch support and Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS)/Computerized Criminal History (CCH) support efforts for the Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public...
The National White Collar Crime Center (Nw3C) was awarded a $500,000 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710). The funding will be used to create a community awareness toolkit with training curricula, videos, handouts, and other resources for law enforcement to use for community education on topics such as gender-based violence...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service awarded a $4,504,550 Community Connect Grant (CFDA 10.863) to Premier Holdings, LLC (doing business as Premier Broadband, LLC) to deploy broadband transmission services in rural, economically-challenged areas of Dallas, TX that currently lack high-speed internet access. The two-year grant, awarded on September 27, 2024, will fund the construction of broadband networks, establishment of community centers with free internet access, and...