The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate granted $19.6 million to the Wisconsin Institutes of Discovery Thursday for a Software Assurance Marketplace research center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
The five-year grant will help researchers work to improve security on the development of software used in technologies from medical devices to the national power grid.
According to professor Miron Livny,head of UW-Madison’s SAM, open-source software “underpins much of the information technology we rely on every day ... Yet, the collaborative environments that facilitate open-source innovation have offered limited access to tools and resources for continuous cybersecurity assurance."
The DHS also donated a grant totaling $4 million to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications Cybersecurity Directorate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and to Indiana University's Pervasive Technology Institute.
