All proposals should be submitted by the lead institution PI online via EasyChair at:

Proposals must be submitted to EasyChair by 11:59 PM PDT February 14, 2022.

Awards will be announced in March with a start date around June 1, 2022.

There will be an opportunity for the award winners to participate in the C3DTI Annual Symposium to be held March 22-24, 2022 in Miami, Florida, and formally receive the award.

Please use the Proposal Submission Template available in EasyChair when preparing your proposal. When finished, save your proposal in PDF format and upload all sections to EasyChair as a single PDF.

Proposals should use 11-point font and have 1” margins. The proposal structure and page limits are as follows, with additional instructions for each section provided below:

Please include the following items:

• Full title of your proposed project
• Principal Investigator full name, title, affiliation, e-mail address, and phone number
• Co-Investigator full name(s), title(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), and phone number(s)
• Lead Institution Authorized Organizational Representative full name, title, affiliation, mailing address, e-mail address, and phone number
• Lead Institution Grant Administrator Contact full name, title, affiliation, mailing address, e-mail address, and phone number
• Proposal Abstract (maximum 250 words)

Please provide details about how your project will address each of the subsections below. Note that figures, tables, equations, etc. count toward the page limit.

• Project Relevance to AI to Transform Cybersecurity and Secure Critical Infrastructure
• Project Methodology
• Expected Research Accomplishments
• Criteria for Success
• Approach Novelty and Likelihood of Success
• Research Team Related Prior Accomplishments
• Computational Challenges and Resources Needed
• Suggested Reviewers

Proposals should explain how the C3 AI Suite (powered by Microsoft Azure) will be used to deal with new computational challenges and analyze complex data at scale. To inform your proposal, you may review the provided video recordings that describe computing resources available to C3DTI awardees.

The C3DTI Development Operations staff will be available to answer your questions about computing resources on Tuesdays beginning January 11, 2022 until the proposal submission deadline from 9 am – 10 am PST (11 am – 12 pm CST). Please use this Zoom Meeting link.

No-cost, integrated technical support will be made available to select teams, whereby a C3DTI technical staff member is “embedded” with the Research Award recipient team to support and contribute to project work. Such arrangements should be jointly planned with the C3DTI technical team, which retains discretion and authority over selection of integration projects. These arrangements should be discussed before proposal submission and interested proposers should include details in the optional one-page description described in the Proposal Preparation Instructions section of this document.

Please provide citations to all references in your proposal. There is no set format for citations.

Please provide a list of Key Personnel and brief (~100 word) biographical sketches for each person. Key Personnel should include the Principal Investigator, Co-Investigators, and other Senior Researchers. Links to full CVs for Key Personnel are allowed.

Please provide a budget and a short (one page maximum) budget justification. Research Awards made from this solicitation must be used for direct costs only and no indirect costs or institutional overhead may be charged. The following budget items should be included:

• Research Personnel
  This should include the cost and amount of time for faculty, students, postdoctoral scholars, and technical staff. Benefit costs are allowable.
• Administrative Support
  A modest amount of project-related administrative support may be included if it is needed to conduct the proposed work. This should include the cost and time of administrative staff. Benefit costs are allowable.
• Travel
  This should include travel-related expenses to disseminate the results of the research and collaborate with proposal partners.
• Materials and Supplies
• Other and Miscellaneous
  This should include the cost and justification for any special equipment or needs.

This section is optional. If relevant, please provide information on expected requests for assistance from the C3DTI Development Operations (DevOps) staff on the proposed project.