ARIA is supported by generous funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Security Agency. Both agencies provide support for us to increase the educational opportunities available to undergraduates and graduate students in information assurance. With these funds we have brought in speakers, created new courses, attracted new faculty, and sought to increase interaction among the IA faculty of the Five Colleges.

Here's an article on our grants that appear in the UMass "In the Loop" newsletter: "Researchers receive $300,000 NSF grant to support computer security teaching and outreach" by Patrick J. Callahan.

• The NSF Cyber Trust Program awards $1.1 million for "Preserving Utility While Ensuring Privacy for Linked Data" in collaboration with Cornell University and the University of Washington. The award funds research into the protection of sensitive data sets (such as social networks or network traces) that represent entities and their relationships. PIs: Gerome Miklau, Don Towsley, Johannes Gehrke (Cornell), John Abowd (Cornell), Dan Suciu (University of Washington).
• The NSF Cyber Trust Program awards $1.1 million for "Security for Smart Tags" in collaboration with RSA Labs and Johns Hopkins University. PIs: Kevin Fu, Wayne Burleson, Adam Stubblefield (JHU). The award funds research in improving the security of RFID technology. More information appears on Web site of the RFID Consortium for Security and Privacy.
• The NSF Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service Program (Capacity Building Track) for our grant 0416863 "Collaborative Research: A Five-College Partnership for Information Assurance Education". PIs: Mark Corner and Brian Levine. The grant is collaborative with Nick Howe (Smith), Scott Kaplan (Amherst) Sami Rollins (Mt. Holyoke), Richard Weiss (Hampshire).
  This NSF program "provides funds to colleges and universities to improve the quality and increase the production of information assurance and computer security professionals. Professional development of information assurance faculty and development of academic programs can be funded under this track."
• NSA Funding from the IASP program and Capacity Building annex. PIs: Brian Levine and Mark Corner.
  This NSA outreach program funds "Capacity building activities including research, faculty development, curriculum development and improvements to laboratory facilities underpinning the IA Scholarship program. "