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The FAA has announced a new contract for NEXTOR III, the eight-university Consortium in Aviation Operations Research that extends its mission for an additional seven years with an expenditure cap of $24 million. This marks the second extension of the original National Center of Excellence for Aviation Operations Research (NEXTOR), which was established in 1996.


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The Maryland Energy Innovation Institute (MEI2) has been selected to lead the U.S. side of a $18.4M, five-year program, awarded by the U.S.-Israel Energy Center, and managed by the Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation, to conduct research, development, and commercialization of innovative energy technologies in the fossil energy, energy storage and energy-water nexus sectors.


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This is an 18-month, $100K award from the Department of Energy through the National Nuclear Security Administration and Sandia National Laboratories. Professor Gary Rubloff (MSE/ISR) is the principal investigator. He will collaborate with a Grand Challenge Lab Directed Research and Development (LDRD) project team focused on exploring lithium batteries.


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The University of Maryland is receiving $4.96 million in funding as part of a new four-year, multi-team Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) project called Automated Implementation of Secure Silicon (AISS), which is aimed at making scalable on-chip security pervasive.


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Ankur Srivastava is part of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) “Locked Electronics for Assured Design” (LEAD) program led by Northrop Grumman Corp. He is the principal investigator for “Delay Locking ASIC IP Blocks to Protect Functionality,” a two-year, $200K subcontract.


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Through the Structured Array Hardware for Automatically Realized Applications (SAHARA) program, Intel and its partners are developing obfuscation technologies for their structured Application Specific Integrated Circuit (eASIC) chips. Srivastava is the principal investigator for a three-year, $699,830 “Red Team” subcontract that will stress test the security of these chips through rigorous verification, validation and development of new attack methodologies.


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“Red Team, Chiplet IP Protection and Countermeasures for State-of-the-Art Heterogeneous Integrated Packaging (SHIP) Prototype Project” is a three-year, $699,895 subcontract to the larger SHIP project.


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