Five awards of the same shape on the same day: a call that sends cyber and AI talent into government
About $1.96 million to the University of Central Florida. The five awards from this call share an award date, a start date and an end date, and run exactly three years.
Grant overview (primary data)
- Award amount$1,955,351
- RecipientThe University of Central Florida Board of Trustees (Florida)
- ProgramCyberAICorps SFS
- Period2026-08-01 〜 2029-07-31
- FunderU.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) / NSF
Key points
- About $1,955,000 to the University of Central Florida, with the full estimated total already obligated.
- Awarded 27 July 2026, started 1 August, ending 31 July 2029: exactly three years, or 1,095 days.
- Of the 123 NSF awards this site holds as of 2026-09-06, this programme accounts for 11, the largest group.
- It aims at preparing people to secure AI used in space, defence, and modelling and simulation.
1Awards that arrive in the same shape
Scanning a list of grants, dates and amounts and durations all look scattered. Yet awards from a single call are uniform. These five share an award date, a start date and an end date, and each runs exactly three years, 1,095 days.
2Where it sits among the 123
These records span 67 programmes. The largest of them is this one.
Workforce programmes sit at a scale comparable with research programmes themselves. AI funding does not flow only into equipment and compute.
3What this one award sets out
The description states that AI is becoming part of the technology used to run government services, protect critical infrastructure and support national security missions, and derives from that a need for people with two capabilities: using AI to strengthen cyber defence, and securing AI-enabled systems against emerging threats. Scholarships, training, research experience and workforce preparation are the stated means of deepening the federal cyber workforce.
The next article takes up an award from the same call that names the dual nature of AI as its motive.
Why it matters
Awards from one call share dates and durations, so viewing them together reveals a coordinated policy movement that individual records do not show. Where workforce funding lands reads as a statement of demand in that field.
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Sources (primary)
Source: NSF Award Search (U.S. National Science Foundation, public domain). Amounts are the obligated amount. For privacy, we do not handle principal investigator names.
- NSF Award (original, official)
- NSF Award ID: 2622846