Approved projects will be awarded funding of up to $1.5M, up to 50% of the joint R&D budget
Cybersecurity threats to critical infrastructure pose one of the greatest risks to national security. To address cyber threats and encourage the development and implementation of innovative solutions designed for information security in critical infrastructure, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T), the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD), and the Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation have initiated BIRD Cyber.
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The objective of BIRD Cyber is to enhance the cyber resilience of critical infrastructure in the United States and Israel. The program will support project collaboration between U.S. and Israeli companies or between a company and a university or research institute (one from the U.S. and one from Israel), leading to demonstrations and pilot implementations of innovative technologies.
Project submissions should relate to technologies being developed in the following areas: secured architecture for protecting core operational processes; pilots of real-time risk assessment solutions for small-to-medium sized airports or seaports; piloting resilience centers for small and medium businesses and enterprises; and, advanced data fusion and analytics.
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BIRD Cyber will provide grants of up to $1.5 million per project, up to 50 percent of research and development budgets. A full description of the program’s Call for Proposals and topics can be found on the BIRD Foundation
The deadline for submission of Executive Summaries is November 15, 2022. Projects will be approved in March 2023.
Dr. Eitan Yudilevich, Executive Director of BIRD said: “We are pleased that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Israel National Cyber Directorate have selected the BIRD Foundation to lead the joint U.S.-Israel cyber technologies program and are proud that we can contribute to enhancing cyber resilience in both countries.”
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