Project Grant R12AP60069

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $211,051 Project Grant under the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507) to the La Feria Irrigation District #3 in Cameron County, Texas. The grant funds the installation of a solar-powered Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) telemetry system at 10 spillway sites to monitor water flow, manage discharges, and reduce water lost to operational spills. This technology...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded the Cordua Irrigation District $7.33 million on September 3, 2025, under the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507) to replace and retrofit flow control structures at 12 sites along the Cordua Main Canal in Yuba County, California. The project deliverables include installation of a cloud-based supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system at all 12 sites to enable real-time data readings and remote...

PROTECT-GRIDS Project Grant Summary Purdue University received a $299,429 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028, to develop the PROTECT-GRIDS (Proactive Remediation and Organized Tactics for Effective Cybersecurity of Targeted Grid Market Retailers in Distribution Systems) framework. The primary deliverable is a cohesive cybersecurity protection system designed to detect, mitigate, and remediate...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $108,510 to the University of Houston System to develop a comprehensive solution for securing industrial control systems (ICS) against cyber-attacks. The key objectives are to integrate human-on-the-loop explainable machine learning, detection, and recovery control in an operator-automation shared protection framework to ensure the security and safety of critical infrastructure ICS....

This three-year, $144,994 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to develop a cyber resilient virtual power plant network for growing power demands. Specifically, the award supports designing and implementing a 5G-enabled smart artificial intelligence-based microinverter for a pole-mounted solar power system with energy storage. This virtual power plant will be connected to low-voltage distribution networks and...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation, through its WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507), awarded a $4,511,673 project grant to the Turlock Irrigation District (TID) located in California's Central Valley. The funding will enable TID's Civil Engineering Division to improve and automate five drop structures on the district's main canal. This project involves modifying the drop structures, installing new automated gates, and...

This $375,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) funds research at Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station to develop a Strategic Holistic Framework for Intrusion Prevention using Multi-modal Data in Power Systems (SHIELD). The three-year project aims to strengthen national power grid protection against cyber-physical attacks through novel intrusion detection and prevention methods. Researchers will fuse cyber and physical power system...

Pacific Science & Engineering Group, Inc. was awarded a $200,000 project grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop an externalized decision-making user interface for training smart grid operators. The interface aims to help operators of the nation's energy infrastructure learn to manage complex systems. In keeping with the Office of Science's mission to transform understanding of nature and...

This $400,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems aims to revolutionize the design of learning-enabled, safety-critical systems, with a focus on power systems. The project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SLES: SAFETY UNDER DISTRIBUTIONAL SHIFT IN LEARNING-ENABLED POWER SYSTEMS", will develop proactive, antifragile systems that can anticipate and adapt to changes, utilize multi-agent systems for...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Grid Deployment Office awarded a $76,324,030 Project Grant under the Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience (CFDA 81.254) program to Rappahannock Electric Cooperative (REC) to modernize its distribution system in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The grant funding will be used to expand REC's utility fiber network, upgrade substations with security systems, deploy advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), and improve grid resilience and reliability. The project...