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"Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI)" is currently closed and not accepting applications.
Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI) is sponsored by U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). The CICI program aims to advance scientific discovery by improving the security and privacy of cyberinfrastructure. It supports the development, deployment, and integration of cybersecurity solutions for securing science data, computation, collaborations, workflows, and infrastructure.
It includes focus areas like Usable and Collaborative Security for Science (UCSS), Reference Scientific Security Datasets (RSSD), Transition to Cyberinfrastructure Resilience (TCR), and Integrity, Provenance, and Authenticity for Artificial Intelligence Ready Data (IPAAI).
While not explicitly Africa-focused, universities conducting research on global cybersecurity challenges, which could include those impacting African critical infrastructure, may be eligible.
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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 the 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.
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According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Institutions of higher education, non-profit institutions, non-profit organizations, states, local governments, Indian tribes, consortia of such institutions or non-profit institutions/organizations. University Affiliated Research Centers (UARC) are also eligible unless precluded by their Department of Defense UARC contract. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows $8,000,000 to $12,000,000 total (up to $1,200,000 per award for TCR, up to $900,000 for IPAAI, up to $600,000 for UCSS and RSSD). Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
The published deadline was January 3, 2025, which has passed. Check the official notice for any future application windows before investing time in a proposal.
Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI) is funded by U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). 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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