Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure — U.S. National Science Foundation funding opportunity
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Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure

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 t...

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Award Up to $1.2M Deadline Jan 20 Location Alabama Type grant Level Federal Open posted Jan 4, 2025
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  • Who can apply: Federal-level applicants (see eligibility for details).
  • Funding amount: up to $1,200,000 (total pool ~$12,000,000).
  • Next deadline: January 20, 2027.
  • Issued by: U.S. National Science Foundation.
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Award amount
Up to $1.2M
Deadline
Jan 20
Jan 20, 2027
Total pool
$12M

About this opportunity

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 workflows, and infrastructure. CICI recognizes the unique nature of collaborative science and the breadth of infrastructure and requirements across scientific 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 , and/or resilience of scientific cyberinfrastructure through technology transition of novel cybersecurity research. The TCR area further encourages transition activities that advance the deployment and use of reproducibility in data. 4. 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 authenticity of scientific datasets used by Artificial Intelligence systems.

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Source ID358004
PostedJan 4, 2025

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