Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI)
Open Posted
- Opportunity number
- 25-531
- Agency
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National Science Foundation
- Applications due
- Award size
- Up to $1,200,000
Opportunity facts
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- Funding instrument
- Grant
- Category
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- Science and Technology and other Research and Development
- Eligible applicants
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- Other
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- Full announcement
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The National Science Foundation is soliciting applications for the Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI) program, with proposals due January 20, 2027.
Eligible applicants are institutions of higher education (two- and four-year institutions, including community colleges) accredited and campus-located in the United States, and non-profit, non-academic organizations including independent museums, observatories, research laboratories, and professional societies located in the U.S. and directly associated with educational or research activities. Proposals may include funding to international branch campuses of U.S. institutions of higher education only if the proposer justifies the benefit to the project and explains why activities cannot be performed at the U.S. campus.
The program operates four priority areas: Usable and Collaborative Security for Science (UCSS), supporting novel and applied security and usability research that facilitates scientific collaboration and integrates security into scientific workflows; Reference Scientific Security Datasets (RSSD), leveraging instrumented cyberinfrastructure to capture metadata from scientific workflows as reference data artifacts for reproducible security research; Transition to Cyberinfrastructure Resilience (TCR), improving robustness, trustworthiness, integrity, and resilience of scientific cyberinfrastructure through testing, evaluation, hardening, and validation; and Integrity, Provenance, and Authenticity for Artificial Intelligence Ready Data (IPAAI), enhancing confidence and reproducibility in AI-produced scientific data.
Applications must follow NSF Grants.gov procedures detailed in NSF 24-006, including submission of SF 424 forms, research budgets, Data Management and Sharing Plans, and NSF Senior/Key Person profiles. Applicants should submit at least five business days before the deadline.
The program is assigned to CFDA 47.070 (Computer and Information Science and Engineering) and CFDA 47.075 (Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences).
Synopsis
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Update #2 · Latest ·
The objective of the Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI) program is to advance scientific discovery and innovation by enhancing the security and privacy of cyberinfrastructure. CICI supports efforts to develop, deploy and integrate cybersecurity that will benefit the broader scientific community by securing science data, computation, collaborations workflows, and infrastructure. CICI recognizes the unique nature of modern, complex, data-driven, distributed, rapid, and collaborative science and the breadth of infrastructure and requirements across scientific disciplines, practitioners, researchers, and projects. CICI seeks proposals in four program areas:
1. Usable and Collaborative Security for Science (UCSS): Projects in this program area should support novel and/or applied security and usability research that facilitates scientific collaboration, encourages the adoption of security into the scientific workflow, and helps create a holistic, integrated security environment that spans the entire scientific cyberinfrastructure ecosystem.
2. Reference Scientific Security Datasets (RSSD): Projects in this program area should leverage instrumented cyberinfrastructure to capture metadata from scientific workflows and workloads as reference data artifacts that can help support reproducible security research, testing and evaluation.
3. Transition to Cyberinfrastructure Resilience (TCR): Projects in this program area should improve the robustness, trustworthiness, integrity, and/or resilience of scientific cyberinfrastructure through testing, evaluation, hardening, validation, and technology transition of novel cybersecurity research. The TCR area further encourages transition activities that advance the deployment and use of reproducibility in CI, workflows, and data.
4. Integrity, Provenance, and Authenticity for Artificial Intelligence Ready Data (IPAAI): Projects in this program area should enhance confidence and reproducibility in AI produced scientific results by improving the integrity, provenance, and authenticity of scientific datasets used by Artificial Intelligence systems.
Update #1 ·
The objective of the Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI) program is to advance scientific discovery and innovation by enhancing the security and privacy of cyberinfrastructure. CICI supports efforts to develop, deploy and integrate cybersecurity that will benefit the broader scientific community by securing science data, computation, collaborations workflows, and infrastructure. CICI recognizes the unique nature of modern, complex, data-driven, distributed, rapid, and collaborative science and the breadth of infrastructure and requirements across scientific disciplines, practitioners, researchers, and projects. CICI seeks proposals in four program areas: 1. Usable and Collaborative Security for Science (UCSS): Projects in this program area should support novel and/or applied security and usability research that facilitates scientific collaboration, encourages the adoption of security into the scientific workflow, and helps create a holistic, integrated security environment that spans the entire scientific cyberinfrastructure ecosystem. 2. Reference Scientific Security Datasets (RSSD): Projects in this program area should leverage instrumented cyberinfrastructure to capture metadata from scientific workflows and workloads as reference data artifacts that can help support reproducible security research, testing and evaluation. 3. Transition to Cyberinfrastructure Resilience (TCR): Projects in this program area should improve the robustness, trustworthiness, integrity, and/or resilience of scientific cyberinfrastructure through testing, evaluation, hardening, validation, and technology transition of novel cybersecurity research. The TCR area further encourages transition activities that advance the deployment and use of reproducibility in CI, workflows, and data. 4. Integrity, Provenance, and Authenticity for Artificial Intelligence Ready Data (IPAAI): Projects in this program area should enhance confidence and reproducibility in AI produced scientific results by improving the integrity, provenance, and authenticity of scientific datasets used by Artificial Intelligence systems.
Eligibility
*Who May Submit Proposals: Proposals may only be submitted by the following: -Non-profit, non-academic organizations: Independent museums, observatories, research laboratories, professional societies and similar organizations located in the U.S. that are directly associated with educational or research activities. -Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs): Two- and four-year IHEs (including community colleges) accredited in, and having a campus located in the US, acting on behalf of their faculty members. Special Instructions for International Branch Campuses of US IHEs: If the proposal includes funding to be provided to an international branch campus of a US institution of higher education (including through use of sub-awards and consultant arrangements), the proposer must explain the benefit(s) to the project of performance at the international branch campus, and justify why the project activities cannot be performed at the US campus.
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