Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*)

The Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*) program invests in coordinated campus-level cyberinfrastructure improvements, innovation, integration, and engineering for science applications and distributed research projects. Projects that help overcome disparities in cyber-connectivity associated with geographic location, and thereby advance the geography of innovation and enable populations based in these locales to become more nationally competitive in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) research and education are particularly encouraged. Science-driven requirements are the primary motivation for any proposed activity. CC* awards are supported in five program areas: (1) Data Driven Networking Infrastructure (Campus or Region), (2) Computing and the Computing Continuum (Campus or Region), (3) Network Integration and Applied Innovation (Small or Large), (4) Data Storage and Digital Archives (Campus or Region), and (5) Strategy (Campus or Region). The program aims to enable campuses to drive toward a 21st-century realization of integrated cyberinfrastructure for enabling science, addressing challenges in networking, computing, data services, AI, secure systems, and human expertise collaboration. This is a partnership between NSF's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) aimed at encouraging proposal submissions that will help overcome disparities in cyber-connectivity associated with geographic location.