Every day, security and integrity violations disrupt and subvert the success of critical research that greatly benefits the United States and the world.
To help the research community mitigate foreign threats to the security and integrity of the U.S. research enterprise, Section 10338(a) of the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 directed the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish a Research Security & Integrity Information Sharing Analysis Organization, which has subsequently been rebranded the NSF SECURE Center, standing for Safeguarding the Entire Community of the U.S. Research Ecosystem.
NSF published solicitation NSF 23-613 seeking proposals from organizations interested in establishing and running the NSF SECURE Center, a non-government entity that will form a bridge between the U.S. Government and the research community to empower the research community to meet research security requirements by providing information, tools, and other services.
The NSF SECURE Center has been awarded to the University of Washington (PI: Dr. Mark Haselkorn) with a start date of September 1, 2024. The anticipated available budget is up to $9.5 million in Year 1 and up to $10 million in each of Years 2 through 5. The National NSF SECURE Center is led by the University of Washington’s Center on Collaborative Systems for Security, Safety, and Resilience (CoSSaR). Six institutions of higher education will lead five regional centers.