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NIST ITL Grant Programs is sponsored by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - Information Technology Laboratory (ITL). The ITL Grant Program provides financial assistance for research aligned with ITL's mission, including fields such as Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Analytics, Cloud Computing, High-Performance Computing, and Information Processing and Understanding.
This includes fostering collaboration and developing a shared understanding of what constitutes trustworthy AI, and to bolster scientific underpinning of how to assess and assure trustworthiness of AI systems.
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ITL Grant Programs | NIST https://www. nist. gov/itl-grants-program Information Technology Laboratory ITL awards grants and cooperative agreements for Measurement Science and Engineering (MSE) Research Grant Programs and NICE.
The ITL Grant Program provides financial assistance to support the conduct of research or a recipient’s portion of collaborative research consistent with the ITL’s missions to support research in the following fields: Applied and Computational Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Analytics, Biometrics, Cloud Computing, Cyber-Physical Systems, Cybersecurity, Forensic Science, Health Information Technology, High-Performance Computing, Human Factors and Usability, Information Access, Information Processing and Understanding, Internet of Things (IoT), Metrology Infrastructure for Modeling and Simulation, Privacy Engineering, and Statistical Design, Analysis, and Interpretation.
ITL MSE Application Process ITL MSE Financial Assistance Awards - FY 2024 ITL MSE Financial Assistance Awards - FY 2025 Created May 20, 2013, Updated May 20, 2026
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