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Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI) Program is a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure that funds development of cybersecurity solutions specifically designed for the open science and research computing environment. The program supports projects that secure scientific workflows, data, and cyberinfrastructure used by researchers across NSF-funded projects.
Priority areas include security automation, identity and access management, and resilient systems design for open research networks. Eligible applicants include universities, nonprofit organizations, and other research institutions. Award amounts vary based on project scope.
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Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI) | NSF - U.S. National Science Foundation Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI) Important information for proposers and award recipients All proposals must be submitted in accordance with the requirements specified in this funding opportunity and in the Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) and its supplements .
All NSF grants and cooperative agreements are subject to the applicable set of NSF award terms and conditions . NSF has updated its research security policies for NSF funded projects. Supports the development and integration of advanced cybersecurity solutions to improve scientific cyberinfrastructure's security, resilience and usability, enabling secure and reproducible data-driven discoveries across various research fields.
Supports the development and integration of advanced cybersecurity solutions to improve scientific cyberinfrastructure's security, resilience and usability, enabling secure and reproducible data-driven discoveries across various research fields.
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.
Program Director, CISE/OAC April 29, 2026 - Multiple NSF Directorates Invite Research Security-Related Proposals April 2, 2026 - Multiple NSF Directorates Invite Research Security-Related… February 12, 2025 - Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI) (… January 10, 2023 - Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI)… April 27, 2022 - Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI)… Awards made through this program Browse projects funded by this program Map of recent awards made through this program Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (CISE/OAC)
According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Universities, non-profit organizations, and other research institutions. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI) Program is funded by National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
Yes — this listing is flagged as national in scope, so applicants across the U.S. may apply, subject to the sponsor's other eligibility criteria.
Start with the full solicitation document linked on this page — it contains the submission instructions and required forms.
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