NIST Recovery Act Measurement Science and Engineering Research Grants

2009-NIST-ARRA-MSE-Research-01

Basics

20-60 awards expected

One and three year proposals

$500,000---$1,500,000

http://www.nist.gov/recovery/measurement_ffo.html

Open to US academic, commercial, and government organizations

Due 3:00pm Eastern Daylight Savings Time, Monday, July 13, 2009

Information Technology/Cybersecurity

• Research to develop measurement science for complex information systems, especially research in network science and the mathematical foundations of measurement science for information systems.
• Research to develop measurement tools to support advanced network technologies, including development of test suites for network security protocols to support conformance and interoperability testing, and research to develop the methods and metrics to measure interoperability, security, and performance of cloud computing systems.
• Research to develop advanced measurements necessary for the characterization of high speed optical and wireless communications components, systems, and propagation paths.