Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure
This grant supports projects that improve cybersecurity for scientific research infrastructure, focusing on usability, data, resilience, and AI data integrity.
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Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation
Due Dates: April 2, 2025 (Full proposal) | January 21, 2026 (Full proposal) | January 20, 2027 (Full proposal)
Funding Amounts: Up to $600,000–$1,200,000 per award, depending on track, for up to 3 years; $12 million estimated program funding
Summary: Supports applied cybersecurity research, deployment, and integration that improve the security, privacy, and resilience of scientific cyberinfrastructure.
Key Information: Each individual may participate in no more than two CICI proposals as PI, co-PI, or senior/key personnel.
Description
The Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI) program supports work that advances scientific discovery by securing research data, computation, collaborative workflows, and infrastructure. Run by NSF’s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, it funds cybersecurity, privacy, and usability solutions addressing the distinctive needs of distributed, data-driven science.
The program’s four tracks cover usable collaborative security, reference security datasets, transition of cybersecurity innovations into operational scientific infrastructure, and integrity, provenance, and authenticity for AI-ready scientific data. Projects should benefit scientific users and communities while considering collaboration, data sharing, and reproducibility. CICI is not intended for non-cybersecurity infrastructure projects or fundamental cybersecurity or privacy research.
