UMBC Center for Information Security and Assurance

Sponsors

Current Sponsors

  • Department of Homeland Security; Anupam Joshi, PI; 03/2012-03/2014; $500,000; "An Intelligent Agents Framework for the Unified Incident Command and Decision Support (UICDS)"; "Software Agents for UICDS"; At UMBC.
  • Multi-Disciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI), AFOSR; Timothy Finin, Co-PI; Anupam Joshi, Co-PI; 09/2008-09/2013; $7,500,000; "A Framework for Managing the Assured Information Sharing Lifecycle"; UMBC is the lead institution with a 25% share. website
  • National Science Foundation; Timothy Finin, PI; 2009-2013; $700,000; "Platys: From Position to Place in Next Generation Network."
  • National Security Agency; Alan Sherman, PI; Richard Forno, Co-PI; 08/2011-12/2012; $85,537; "DoD IASP Scholarships at UMBC"; At UMBC; Research funds are for the project: "Teaching Information Assurance Concepts to High School Students Through a New Social Media Game: Outreach to Acadmia."

Past Sponsors

  • National Security Agency; Richard Forno, PI; 2011; $84,000; “Maryland Cyber Challenge Scholarships”;
  • National Security Agency; Alan Sherman, Co-PI; John Pinkston, Co-PI; 2010-2011; $74; "DoD IASP Scholarships at UMBC"; At UMBC.
  • National Security Agency; Charles Nicholas; 2010-2011; ~$66,000; Sabbatical fellowship at NSA.
  • Office of Naval Research (via subcontract from Lockheed Martin); Timothy Finin, PI; 2009-2011; $135,000; "Understanding RSM: Relief Social Media"; At UMBC.
  • National Security Agency; Alan Sherman, PI; John Pinkston, Co-PI; 09/2009-12/2010; $19,205; "DoD IASP Scholarships at UMBC"; At UMBC.
  • Northrop Grumman; John E. Dorband, PI; 11/2009-08/2010; $38,000; "Intrusion Detection Architecture"; website.
  • National Security Agency; Alan Sherman, PI; John Pinkston, Co-PI; 09/2008-09/2009; $66,346; "DoD IASP Scholarships at UMBC"; At UMBC.
  • Phase II STTR with Shared Spectrum Company; Anupam Joshi, PI; 2008-2009; "Policy-based WAN Configuration and Management."
  • Google; Timothy Finin, Co-PI; Anupam Joshi, Co-PI; 2008-2009; $60,000; "Modeling Influence, Bias, and Information Flow in Social Media"; At UMBC.
  • Microsoft Research; Timothy Finin, Co-PI; Anupam Joshi, Co-PI; 2008-2009; $55,000; "Modeling Influence, Bias, and Information Flow in Social Media"; At UMBC.
  • National Science Foundation; Mohamed Younis, PI; 2007-2010; $155,016; "Autonomous Networked Sensor Systems"; At UMBC.