The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and Intel Labs recently announced a new partnership to support novel, transformative, multidisciplinary approaches that address the problem of securing current and emerging cyber-physical systems, the infrastructures they form, and those integrated with them.

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Program Solicitation NSF 14-542 Replaces Document(s): NSF 13-502   National Science Foundation Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering

Abstract: The Cyber Physical Systems Virtual Organization (CPS-VO) is a broad community of interest for CPS researchers, practitioners and policy makers. The CPS-VO includes institutions from academy and industry, and people who work on a wide range of related disciplines with different approaches, methods, tools and experimental platforms. These entities are all interconnected and evolve driven by a shared goal, to advance our knowledge in the science and engineering of CPS.

Download the Challenge #1 Tools 

DARPA has recently released the software for all of the design and collaboration tools used by participants in its first FANG Challenge.  Source code for the META design tools, VehicleFORGE collaboration platform and iFAB foundry IT infrastructure are currently available for download from their online repository @ http://cps-vo.org/group/avm.  

Three new reports prepared for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) distill the perspectives of executives and technical experts from industry, academia and government on the "ifs" and the "what's next" of emerging intelligent systems-of-systems technologies.

The three reports are:

Common Group Services   Group Members File Repository (incl. revision control and version difference reports) Group-Specific Calendar Online Meetings (desktop sharing, document sharing, video, voice over IP) Meeting Invites  Activity Stream - what's happening in the group recently?  Discussion Forums Wiki Group-Specific Search Video Libraries  Subscriptions / Notifications  

  The National Science Foundation established CPS-VO with the following tasks:  

 

Opening Remarks/Presentation Dr. Farnam Jahanian (NSF CISE AD) Dr. Thomas Peterson, (NSF ENG AD) Dr. Keith Marzullo (NSF/CISE/CNS DD) Robert Trew  (NSF/ECCS/ENG DD)