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Cybersecurity and Authentication – Apply Today | NSF SBIR For proposal preparation and submission instructions, click here . The SBIR/STTR program looks forward to receiving the submission of new Project Pitches in response to the new solicitations beginning on Tuesday, June 2, 2026. Please direct any questions to sbir@nsf.
gov . Cybersecurity and Authentication (CA) Development of OrganoBait synthetic bait, the NSF-Supported projected from Kepley BioSystems to provide an ocean-restorative alternative bait product Cybersecurity and Authentication (CA) The Cybersecurity and Authentication topic focuses on innovations related to the security and integrity of data and data processing and the authentication of people and devices.
These subtopic areas are meant to serve as examples; all proposals with technical innovation and significant commercial potential are welcome, regardless of the specific area of focus of the project. CA1. Computation on Encrypted Data CA2.
Cryptography, including Post-quantum Cryptography CA3. Data Privacy and Integrity CA4. Device Authentication CA6.
Encryption, including Homomorphic Encryption CA7. Network and Device Security CA8. Personal Authentication CA9.
Secure and Trusted Computing CA10. Secure Machine-to-Machine Communication CA11. Security of Cloud and High Performance Computing (HPC) Platforms CA12.
Other Cybersecurity and Authentication Technologies Application process for Cybersecurity and Authentication (CA) funding Eligibility for Cybersecurity and Authentication (CA) funding + Your company must be a small business (fewer than 500 employees) located in the United States. At least 50% of your company’s equity must be owned by U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
NSF does not fund companies that are majority-owned by multiple venture capital firms, private equity firms, or hedge funds, to participate in SBIR and STTR. All funded work, including work done by consultants and contractors, needs to take place in the United States. The project’s principal investigator (tech lead) must be legally employed at least 20 hours a week by the company seeking funding.
The principal investigator doesn’t need any advanced degrees. The principal investigator needs to commit to at least one month (173 hours) of work on a funded project per six months of project duration. Evaluation Criteria: What We Look for When Evaluating Cybersecurity and Authentication (CA) proposals + Take our project assessment to see if your work might be a good fit for NSF funding.
Monitoring internal and external network performance - ThousandEyes Mohit Lad, CEO & Co-Founder of ThousandEyes “The grants we received from NSF were instrumental in bootstrapping ThousandEyes and allowing us to focus on building the first version of our product and acquiring customers.
By the time we raised our series A from Sequoia capital, we had a handful of well-known brands as customers with annual bookings of more than $250k, i.e. real revenue. Thanks to NSF, we were on our way to commercializing our technology. ” -Mohit Lad, CEO & Co-Founder of ThousandEyes, a network intelligence platform for businesses, was founded by Lad and Ricardo Oliviera in 2010.
In 2018, they have 220 employees and have raised nearly $110 million. ThousandEyes delivers Network Intelligence—performance visibility and actionable insights on digital experience for every user and application over any network.
It arms network engineers, operations teams, support/service desk staff, developers, and even business users with an accurate, up-to-the-moment understanding of the link between application delivery and underlying network dependencies and behaviors– both inside and outside the organization.
ThousandEyes' patented Path Visualization provides detailed hop-by-hop visibility and performance metrics from any network, even if it's outside your enterprise boundaries. A global inference engine correlates multiple streams of data and visually pinpoints the location of outages (shown as red circles), and provides additional contextual information about the specific location.
PQSecure Technologies, LLC We invest up to $2 million in seed funding and take zero equity. We’re looking for companies that are transformative, high-risk, have a market pull, and are scaleable.
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NSF's $20 million Commercialization Readiness Pilot, announced September 14, 2026 and led by UCF's National Commercialization and Translation Institute, will give six to eight Phase II and IIB deep-tech firms milestone awards of $1 million to $3.75 million. Roughly one in ten NSF Phase IIB alumni will get a seat. Here is how the selection logic actually works.
Read articleNSF's restarted SBIR/STTR program carries two transition rules almost nobody has calendared. Project Pitch invitations issued on or after July 3, 2025 must be converted to a full proposal by November 4, 2026. Phase I awardees whose awards started on or after November 6, 2023 must submit Phase II by the same date. Both cohorts were created by the program lapse, and both cliffs are hard.
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