Notice2021-27089
National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence
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Published
December 15, 2021
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Commerce DepartmentNational Institute of Standards and Technology
Abstract
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) invites interested U.S. companies to submit letters of interest in collaborating with NIST/ITL on an ongoing basis in the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) through partnerships called "National Cybersecurity Excellence Partnerships" (NCEPs). NIST previously published a notice for this partnership on October 19, 2012. This notice repeats the same information contained in the previous notice but contains updated contact and mailing information.
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 238 (Wednesday, December 15, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71233-71234]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-27089]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology
[Docket No. 120912441-2441-01]
National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence
AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; correction.
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SUMMARY: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) invites interested U.S.
companies to submit letters of interest in collaborating with NIST/ITL
on an ongoing basis in the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence
(NCCoE) through partnerships called ``National Cybersecurity Excellence
Partnerships'' (NCEPs). NIST previously published a notice for this
partnership on October 19, 2012. This notice repeats the same
information contained in the previous notice but contains updated
contact and mailing information.
DATES: Letters of interest will be accepted on an ongoing basis.
However, if NIST determines that letters of interest will no longer be
accepted, NIST will publish the last date when letters will be accepted
in a Federal Register notice.
ADDRESSES: Interested U.S. companies should send letters via email to
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#e78984848882ca89848297ca9382868aa7898e9493c9808891"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4f212c2c202a62212c2a3f623b2a2e220f21263c3b61282039">[email protected]</span></a>; or via hardcopy to NCCoE, National Institute
of Standards and Technology; 9700 Great Seneca Highway, Rockville, MD
20850.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Natalia Martin via email at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#7d131e1e121850131e180d5009181c103d13140e09531a120b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="7618151519135b181513065b0213171b36181f050258111900">[email protected]</span></a>; or via telephone at 301-975-0225. For additional
information on NCCoE governance, business processes, and operational
structure, visit the NCCoE website, at <a href="https://www.nccoe.nist.gov">https://www.nccoe.nist.gov</a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NCCoE, hosted by NIST, is a public-
private collaboration for accelerating the widespread adoption of
integrated cybersecurity tools and technologies. The NCCoE's mission is
to bring together experts from industry, government, and academia under
one roof to develop practical, interoperable cybersecurity approaches
that address the real world needs of complex Information Technology
(IT) systems. By accelerating dissemination and use of these integrated
tools and technologies for protecting Information Technology (IT)) and
Operational Technology (OT) assets to help organizations improve their
cybersecurity in the context of their missions and business objectives,
the NCCoE strives to cultivate trust in U.S. IT communications, data,
and storage systems, lower risk for companies and individuals in the
use of IT systems, and encourage development of innovative, job-
creating cybersecurity products and services.
As part of the NCCoE initiative, NIST/ITL intends to enter into
partnerships, called ``National Cybersecurity Excellence Partnerships''
(NCEPs), with U.S. companies to collaborate on an ongoing basis in the
NCCoE. Collaboration agreements will be based upon the statutory
technology transfer authorities available to NIST, including the
Federal Technology Transfer Act, 15 U.S.C. 3710a. NIST/ITL intends that
NCEP collaborators will co-locate with ITL at the NCCoE at 9700 Great
Seneca Highway Rockville, MD 20850 and will contribute to the
development of the intellectual and physical infrastructure needed to
support collaborative efforts among NIST and many sources of security
capabilities, including users and vendors of products and services, on
holistic approaches to resolve cybersecurity challenges.
Approaches to resolving cybersecurity challenges will be addressed
at the NCCoE through individual projects; projects developed by NCCoE
will incorporate the IT security needs of specific communities or
sectors. Examples of candidate sectors include health care, finance and
utilities. The cybersecurity challenges that will be the subject of the
project will be selected by NIST through workshops with input from
broad groups of stakeholders, as well as public feedback provided via
collaborative internet participation. Collaborative participation may
be accessed via links from <a href="http://nccoe.nist.gov/">http://nccoe.nist.gov/</a>. Opportunities to
participate in individual projects will be announced in the Federal
Register and will be open to the public on a first-come, first-served
basis. NIST/ITL envisions that the NCCoE will be capable of supporting
multiple simultaneous applied cybersecurity projects in various stages.
NCEP collaborators will neither be obligated to participate in a given
project, nor will they be guaranteed participation in a given project,
but they will be given priority for participation in each project only
for their resources that are already onsite at the NCCoE and for
components that are interoperable with those onsite resources, within
the process defined for that project as announced in the Federal
Register.
NCEP collaborators selected to participate in a given project may
contribute, but will not be required to contribute, resources in
addition to those contributed through their NCEP agreement. However,
priority participation in a project will be granted only for resources
relevant to the projects that are already onsite in the NCCoE and
components that are interoperable with those onsite resources. Through
their collaboration agreements with NIST/ITL, NCEP collaborators will
agree that resources contributed to the NCCoE initiative will be
available to all project participants, as determined by NIST. Through
individual project consortium agreements, all participants, including
NIST, NCEP collaborators and others, will agree that successful
solutions to a NCCoE project challenge will be thoroughly documented
and shared publicly, in order to encourage the rapid adoption of
comprehensive cybersecurity templates and approaches that support
automated and trustworthy e-government and e-commerce.
Each NCEP will be between NIST and a U.S. company. It is
anticipated that NCEP agreements will be established for a three-year
period, with renewal subject to the requirements and interests of the
collaborator and NIST/ITL.
Interested U.S. companies are invited to submit a letter of
interest that contains sufficient information for NIST/ITL to
objectively determine whether the proposed collaboration is feasible,
relevant to the NCCoE mission to foster the rapid adoption and broad
deployment of integrated cybersecurity tools and techniques that
enhance consumer confidence in U.S. information systems, and has
potential to advance the state of cybersecurity practice. Companies
whose proposed collaborations are determined by NIST/
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ITL to meet all three criteria will be invited to enter into
negotiations for a cooperative research and development agreement
(CRADA) with NIST/ITL. Companies whose letters of interest contain
insufficient information for NIST/ITL to make a determination as to
whether the proposed collaboration meets all three criteria, and
companies whose proposed collaboration is determined by NIST/ITL not to
meet all three criteria, will be notified in writing by NIST/ITL.
Alicia Chambers,
NIST Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2021-27089 Filed 12-14-21; 8:45 am]
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