(HISTORICAL)Critical Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Systems & Processes

 
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    CFDA#

    47.041, 47.075
     

    Funder Type

    Federal Government

    IT Classification

    A - Primarily intended to fund technology

    Authority

    National Science Foundation (NSF)

    Summary

    Critical infrastructures are the mainstay of our nation's economy, security and health. These infrastructures are interdependent. They are linked to individual preferences and community needs. For example, the electrical power system depends on the delivery of fuels to power generating stations through transportation services, the production of those fuels depends in turn on the use of electrical power, and those fuels are needed by the transportation services. Social networks, interactions, and policies can enable or hinder the successful creation of resilient complex adaptive systems.

    The goals of the Critical Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Systems and Processes (CRISP) solicitation are to: (1) foster an interdisciplinary research community of engineers, computer and computational scientists and social and behavioral scientists, that creates new approaches and engineering solutions for the design and operation of infrastructures as processes and services; (2) enhance the understanding and design of interdependent critical infrastructure systems (ICIs) and processes that provide essential goods and services despite disruptions and failures from any cause, natural, technological, or malicious; (3) create the knowledge for innovation in ICIs so that they safely, securely, and effectively expand the range of goods and services they enable; and (4) improve the effectiveness and efficiency with which they deliver existing goods and services. These goals lead to the following specific objectives for this solicitation:
    • To create new knowledge, approaches, and solutions to increase resilience, performance, and readiness in ICIs. The solutions may emerge primarily from advances in cyber (computing, information, computational, sensing and communication), engineering, or societal (behavioral, economic, organizational) elements of ICIs, although proposals must integrate research across all three elements.    
    • To create theoretical frameworks and multidisciplinary models of ICIs, processes and services, capable of analytical prediction of complex behaviors, in response to system and policy changes.
    • To develop frameworks to understand interdependencies created by the interactions between the physical, the cyber (computing, information, computational, sensing and communication), and social, behavioral and economic elements of ICIs. These could include, but are not limited to, software frameworks for modeling and simulation using advanced cyber infrastructures, management, monitoring and real-time control of interdependent ICIs and novel software engineering methodologies.
    • To study socioeconomic, political, legal and psychological obstacles to improving ICIs and identifying strategies for overcoming those obstacles.
    • To undertake the creation, curation or use of publicly accessible data on infrastructure systems and processes, whether in the context of explanation, prediction or modeling.
    The CRISP solicitation seeks to fund projects likely to produce new knowledge that can contribute to making ICI services more effective, efficient, dependable, adaptable, resilient, safe, and secure, taking into account the human systems in which they are embedded. Successful proposals are expected to study multiple infrastructures focusing on them as interdependent systems that deliver services, enabling a new interdisciplinary paradigm in infrastructure research. To meet the interdisciplinary criterion, proposals must broadly integrate across engineering, computer, information and computational science, and the social, behavioral and economic sciences. Proposals that do not meet this criterion will be returned without review. Projects supported under this solicitation may undertake the collection of new data or use existing curated data depending on the category of award, and must recognize that a primary objective is integrative, predictive modeling that can use the data to validate the models and that can be integrated into decision making.
     

    History of Funding

    Previously funded projects can be seen https://www.nsf.gov/awards/award_visualization.jsp?org=NSF&pims_id=505277&ProgEleCode=027Y&from=fund.

    Additional Information

    Various research activities in critical resilient infrastructure systems and processes that might be included in proposals are listed below (these activities are illustrative and should not be considered exhaustive or limiting).
    • Improve control, integrity, and overall stability of services provided by ICIs;
    • Understand and model the systems ecology of ICI processes and services, including interaction between human and engineered elements of ICIs;
    • Create conceptual frameworks and theories for understanding the processes and services of ICIs from a multidisciplinary perspective;
    • Apply interdisciplinary knowledge to the design and management of interdependent critical infrastructure systems and processes required to meet societal needs;
    • Test hypotheses and validate explanatory models through empirical work involving ICIs with either existing, newly collected or simulated/synthetic data;
    • Study risk assessment, incentives, network interactions and other mechanisms for facilitating the creation of resilient, efficient ICIs;
    • Study socio-economic, political, legal, organizational, technical, and psychological enablers and obstacles in order to improve ICIs systems and processes;
    • Explore the economics and governance of ICIs in light of competing or uncertain demands, incentives and technologies;
    • Explore new multidisciplinary engineering approaches to increase resilience, interoperability, performance, and readiness in ICIs;
    • Develop and test new ways of data collection and/or creation to advance the study of ICIs;
    • Undertake fundamental research on issues of process and performance measurement for ICIs;
    • Explore multi-scale interactions between the design, operation and management of ICIs and the changes in the populations served by ICIs;
    • Innovate and expand the design space of alternatives, leveraging evolving system interdependencies to enhance resiliency to both extreme conditions and ongoing challenges faced by the communities;
    • Determine the socio-economic value of new interdependencies of ICIs to meet societal demands.

    Contacts

    Bruce Hamilton

    Bruce Hamilton
    4201 Wilson Boulevard
    Arlington, VA 22230
    (703) 292-7066
    (703) 292-9054
     

  • Eligibility Details

    Eligible applicants are Universities and Colleges. This includes two- and four-year colleges (including community colleges) accredited in, and having a campus located in, the US acting on behalf of their faculty members. Such organizations also are referred to as academic institutions.

    Deadline Details

    Applications were to be submitted by March 7, 2018. A similar deadline is anticipated annually.

    Award Details

    Up to $13,400,000 is available for an anticipated 8-18 awards. Individual awards vary based on program area:
    • Type 1 Awards: Projects will be 2 -3 years in duration with a maximum total budget of $750,000.
    • Type 2 Awards: Projects will be 3 - 4 years in duration with a maximum total budget of $2,000,000.
    Cost sharing/matching is not required. 

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