Project Grant SLMAQM21GR3432

The U.S. Department of State, through the Cyberspace and Digital Policy program (CFDA 19.665), awarded a $1,165,940 Cooperative Agreement to the Information Technology And Innovation Foundation on Sep 30, 2024. The award supports efforts to build a cohesive group of leaders working on issues in cyberspace who are committed to the UN-affirmed framework of responsible state behavior. The 18-month project, with a completion date of Mar 30, 2026, will focus on technical assistance, capacity...

This Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Department of State's Cyberspace and Digital Policy program (CFDA 19.665), aims to enhance the capacities of ESCAP member states to establish robust governance, regulatory, and policy environments related to Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) and other emerging technologies. The $924,053.50 award, effective from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027, will be provided to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN...

This Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $987,500.00, was issued by the U.S. Department of State under the Cyberspace and Digital Policy Federal Grant Program (CFDA 19.665). The award, with a performance period from August 15, 2024 to September 14, 2026, will provide a platform to enable more efficient cyber capacity building efforts for funders, implementers, and beneficiaries active in the Western Balkans region. The Awardee, Stichting Global Forum On Cyber Expertise, is a foreign...

The U.S. Department of State awarded a $296,250 Project Grant under the Cyberspace and Digital Policy program (CFDA 19.665) to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to provide support to OSCE participating states in operationalizing confidence-building measures on a national and regional level. This 2-year award, running from September 2023 to September 2025, will enable OSCE to deliver a range of technical assistance, capacity building, and training activities across...

The U.S. Department of State, through its Cyber Capacity Building Federal Grant Program (CFDA 19.035), awarded a $500,000 project grant to Cambridge Global Advisors, LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business. The grant, awarded on September 30, 2024, focuses on gender mainstreaming within the cybersecurity workforce across the East Asia and Pacific regions. The project aims to enhance international cyber capabilities by developing cybersecurity policies, increasing awareness of...

This $600,000 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will support the development of a first-of-its-kind open-source measurement infrastructure platform. The University of Chicago will design, develop, and deploy this platform to enable new classes of research on digital infrastructure access across U.S. populations. Specifically, the platform aims to facilitate studies on the national digital divide challenge by...

This $500,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of State's Cyber Capacity Building program (CFDA 19.035) aims to have an immediate effect leading to long-term improvements in increasing the cybersecurity capacity of the future workforce in the East Asia and Pacific region. The award, which runs from September 30, 2024 to February 27, 2025, will be carried out by Cyberlite Books Pte. LTD., a for-profit organization based in Singapore. The project will focus on increasing K-12...

This $500,000 Project Grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of State on September 30, 2024 under the Cyberspace and Digital Policy program (CFDA 19.665), aims to build cybersecurity capacity and resilience in low and middle-income countries. The grant recipient, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), will leverage this funding to support initiatives that advance an open, interoperable, reliable, and secure internet through technical assistance, capacity building,...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the CFDA 47.070 Computer and Information Science and Engineering program to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY) to develop an open cloud-based "CTF5G" platform for cybersecurity training and workforce development focused on 5G network security. The key products to be delivered through this 2-year project are: Automating the workflow for setting up 5G network-based...

This three-year, $359,828 project grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), supports the development of the CyberConstruction (CYCON) educational and community engagement platform at the University of Idaho. The CYCON platform contains four training and educational components to strengthen construction research data literacy and digital fluency in artificial...