UT Projects Receive State Transportation Funding
Engineering groups from the University of Tennessee received two of the seven grants awarded by the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development (TNECD) through the Transportation Network Growth Opportunity (TNGO) initiative.
The Center for Transportation Research’s project, Building Platform for Development of Automotive Cybersecurity Testing received a $500,000 grant. The University of Tennessee Space Institute’s project, Safety Limit Prediction of Degraded Lithium-Ion Batteries for the Automotive Industry received a $100,000 grant.
TNECD announced Thursday it has awarded a total of $2.9 million in grant funding through TNGO, which serves as a tool to diversify the state’s economy by leveraging both public and private sector assets to attract mobility research and development (R&D) investment to Tennessee.
CTR’s project—the Platform for Automotive Cybersecruity Testing (PACT)–includes the development of an advanced research infrastructure for rigorous testing in controlled environments to enhance the security and reliability of automotive systems in response to increasing cyber threats. The initiative seeks to bridge the gap between theoretical cybersecurity research and practical, real-world applications in the automotive industry.
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