For over a decade, the National Science Foundation’s Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program has been NSF’s flagship cybersecurity & privacy research program, supporting approximately $1 billion in research across nearly 3,000 projects.  Over that time, SaTC has expanded and evolved to include topics on interdisciplinary research between computer and information scientists, and social scientists; blockchain/distributed ledgers and cryptocurrencies; hardware security; information integrity; mathematics; societal aspects of privacy; cyber-physical systems; quantum computing; and education and educational research at the intersection of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and privacy.  SaTC-funded center-scale research activities have focused on cloud computing security, medical devices security, security and privacy for marginalized populations, security for artificial intelligence systems, secure sharing of private data, web privacy, open-source supply chain software security, and Internet of Things security.

As SaTC marks its 10th anniversary, NSF seeks, via this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), input from industry, institutions of higher education (IHEs), non-profits, state and local governments, and other interested parties on possible topics and future directions for cybersecurity and privacy research.

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Name [Point of Contact]: (50 character limit)

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Email: (Valid email address only) 

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Institutional Affiliation: (50 character limit) 

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Research Topic Area Title: (100 character limit) 

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What is the research topic area need that is being targeted? (2000 character limit)

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Is this a proposal for a new topic area, or sunsetting an existing topic area? (100 character limit)

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What disciplines will be involved in the research topic area? (200 character limit)

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Who are the major stakeholders (e.g., academia, private industry, government, non-profit) that need to be engaged to address the relevant societal need? ( 1000 character limit) 

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How does this relate to existing topic areas within the scope of the SaTC program? ( 1000 character limit)

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Why should this research topic area be part of the SaTC program? (500 character limit)

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Do you have any other comments on future directions for the SaTC program? (500 character limit)

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