Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI)

The Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) program seeks to enable funding opportunities that are flexible and responsive to the evolving and emerging needs in cyberinfrastructure (CI). The program emphasizes integrated CI services, quantitative metrics with targets for delivery and usage of these services, and community creation. CSSI anticipates three classes of awards: Elements (small groups creating robust services), Framework Implementations (larger interdisciplinary teams developing sustainable community frameworks), and Transition to Sustainability (groups executing sustainability plans for existing CI with demonstrated impact). The program targets services that address all aspects of CI, from embedded sensor systems and instruments to desktops and high-end data and computing systems, and major instruments and facilities. NSF envisions an agile, integrated, robust, trustworthy, and sustainable CI ecosystem that drives new thinking and transformative discoveries in all areas of science and engineering research and education.