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CPS: TTP Option: Medium: Collaborative Research: Trusted CPS from Untrusted Components

PI: Bruce McMillin
Co-PI's: Rui Bo & Jonathan Kimball

Amount: $962,695
Time Period: 10/1/2018 – 09/30/2021

The nation's critical infrastructures are increasingly dependent on systems that use computers to control vital physical components, including water supplies, the electric grid, airline systems, and medical devices. These are all examples of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) that are vulnerable to attack through their computer systems, through their physical properties such as power flow, water flow, chemistry, etc., or through both. The potential consequences of such compromised systems include financial disaster, civil disorder, even the loss of life.  [Read more] [Sept 24, 2018]

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