The National Science Foundation’s National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics has awarded over $10 million to fund multiple organizations’ proposals for the National Secure Data Service Demonstration Project.
The chosen projects will develop a platform for shared services to support informed decision-making through streamlined data access, enhanced data linkage and strengthened privacy protections, according to America’s DataHub Consortium, or ADC.
The NSDS projects are expected to advance ethical data use and data security for individuals and organizations, ADC added.
The organizations were selected following a competitive process; they include NORC at the University of Chicago, Mathematica, BrightQuery, University of Southern California, The Coleridge Initiative, Clarivate and Westat.
NCSES Director Emilda Rivers said ADC’s work in the NSDS program led to the development of tools that use privacy-preserving technologies and the establishment of models for a comprehensive data concierge service.
“It’s been an exciting couple of years for the ADC in its support of the five-year National Secure Data Service Demonstration project mandated by the CHIPS and Science Act,” Rivers noted.
Managed by Advanced Technology International, ADC is used by the NCSES to facilitate the NSDS pilot projects.