Project Grant R22AP00151

This Project Grant award for $108,510, provided by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering), aims to develop a comprehensive solution to protect industrial control systems (ICS) from malicious cyber-attacks. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing an "operator-automation shared protection framework" that integrates human-on-the-loop explainable machine learning, anomaly detection, and recovery control to enable real-time decision-making...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to enable the convergence of public, private, and education sectors to prepare learners for the cybersecurity convergence workforce. The $650,000 award, granted on September 15, 2024 with a completion date of August 31, 2027, will develop educational and training materials in the form of virtual lab libraries for operational technology (OT)/industrial control systems (ICS) and IT...

This $116,000,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy under the Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience (CFDA 81.254) program will fund Commonwealth Edison Co. (ComEd) to implement a data fusion-empowered, interoperable control framework to modernize power grid planning and operations, while maximizing benefits across disadvantaged communities. The project will deploy a selection of grid-edge technologies for field demonstration and develop an interoperable control...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience program (CFDA 81.254) provides $130,718,468 to the Maine Governors Energy Office to modernize Maine's electric grid and drive increased deployment of distributed energy resources (DERs) and renewable energy. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include implementing active network management (ANM) and flexible interconnection technologies, installing static...

This Project Grant award of $7,339,940.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) under the Natural Gas Distribution Infrastructure Safety and Modernization Grant Program (CFDA 20.708). The funding supports the City of Westfield, MA's Gas & Electric Lights Department to repair, rehabilitate, or replace their natural gas distribution pipeline system and acquire related equipment. The key objectives are to reduce...

This $7,617,635 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience (CFDA 81.254) program aims to modernize Tri-County Electric Cooperative Inc.'s electrical infrastructure in South Carolina. The key products and services to be delivered under this 5-year grant (July 2024 to July 2029) include: Upgrading outdated electricity meters with advanced Radio Frequency (RF) meters to provide timely and accurate energy consumption data....

This Project Grant award of $397,308.00, provided by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) under the Natural Gas Distribution Infrastructure Safety and Modernization Grant Program (CFDA 20.708), supports the City of Moss Point, Mississippi to repair, rehabilitate, or replace their natural gas distribution pipeline system, or acquire equipment to reduce incidents and fatalities and avoid economic losses. The key objectives are to...

The City of Iuka, MS has been awarded a $8,194,580 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) under the Natural Gas Distribution Infrastructure Safety and Modernization Grant Program (CFDA 20.708). The grant, effective from April 4, 2025 to April 3, 2030, will support the city's efforts to repair, rehabilitate, or replace its natural gas distribution pipeline system and acquire related equipment. The key objectives...

This $3,000,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) under the Natural Gas Distribution Infrastructure Safety and Modernization Grant Program (CFDA 20.708) supports the Grant Parish Police Jury in Louisiana to repair, rehabilitate, or replace their natural gas distribution pipeline system and acquire related equipment. The key objectives are to reduce safety incidents and fatalities, avoid economic losses,...

The Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) awarded a $6,598,252 Project Grant under the Natural Gas Distribution Infrastructure Safety and Modernization Grant Program (CFDA 20.708) to Licking Rural Electrification, an OH municipality/community-owned utility. The grant supports the repair, rehabilitation, or replacement of Licking Rural Electrification's natural gas distribution pipeline system, as well as the acquisition of equipment to...