The U.S. National Science Foundation is an independent federal agency that supports science and engineering in all 50 states and U.S. territories. NSF was established in 1950 by Congress to promote the progress of science, advance the national health, prosperity and welfare, and secure the national defense.
The Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC) program aims to foster developments in campus-level cyberinfrastructure that are innovative, integrated, and engineered towards advancing scientific applications and supporting distributed research projects. It particularly invites projects that aim to address and mitigate the disparities in cyber-connectivity due to geographical locations, empowering locales traditionally less competitive in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) to increase their national competitiveness. The guiding principle of the grant is to fuel projects driven by scientific necessities across five specific areas: Data Driven Networking Infrastructure, Computing and the Computing Continuum, Network Integration and Applied Innovation, Data Storage and Digital Archives, and Strategy, each either at the campus or regional level.