CC* CIRA: Shared Arkansas Research Plan for Community Cyber Infrastructure (SHARP CCI)

该奖项全部或部分由2021年美国救援计划法案（公法117-2）资助。SHARP CCI为阿肯色州创建了一个全州范围的研究网络基础设施（RCI）计划，该计划专注于进行科学和工程研究的八个学位授予机构。参与机构包括：阿肯色州州立大学（ASU）;南阿肯色州大学（SAU）;阿肯色州大学（UA）费耶特维尔（UAF）; UA农业部（UADA）; UA小石城（UALR）; UA医学科学（UAMS）; UA派恩海崖（UAPB）;和中央阿肯色州大学（UCA）。每所学校对联合使用高速资源、管理服务和技术培训的需求越来越大;然而，目前还没有提供这些能力的协调计划。阿肯色州的大多数学校缺乏充分利用这些全州资源的连通性、预算和人员配备，每所学校在技术能力和专业知识方面都是独一无二的。SHARP CCI召集每所学校的高级管理人员和研究领导人，记录环境、能力、技术需求和资源差距，并制定公平的RCI计划，为该州的决策者提供信息。该计划还将为每所学校提供必要的资源，以通过招标申请额外的NSF支持，扩大学校基础设施和培训能力。全州范围的RCI计划是组织和扩大研究合作的必要条件，它促进了规模经济，为资源有限的学校建立合规的设施和系统，并建立一个管理服务环境。SHARP CCI包括建立一个全面的数据科学培训计划，阿肯色州网络团队（ACT），为工程师，教育工作者，研究人员和学生提供广泛的科学领域的技术专业知识。该项目团队包括阿肯色州研究和教育光网络，大平原网络，开放科学网格和NSF的参与和性能运营中心，以提供工程和培训专业知识，管理服务经验，并帮助实施阿肯色州全州范围的RCI计划。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响力进行评估的支持审查标准。

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).SHARP CCI creates a statewide research cyber infrastructure (RCI) Plan for Arkansas that is focused on the eight degree granting institutions performing science and engineering research. Participating institutions include: Arkansas State University (ASU); Southern Arkansas University (SAU); University of Arkansas (UA) Fayetteville (UAF); UA Division of Agriculture (UADA); UA Little Rock (UALR); UA Medical Sciences (UAMS); UA Pine Bluff (UAPB); and University of Central Arkansas (UCA). Each school has a growing demand for federated access to high-speed resources, managed services and technical training; however, a coordinated plan for providing these capabilities does not currently exist. Most schools in Arkansas lack the connectivity, budget and staffing to fully utilize these statewide resources, and each school is unique in technical capability and expertise. SHARP CCI assembles the senior administrators and research leaders at each school to document the environments, capabilities, technology needs and resource gaps and create an equitable RCI Plan to inform decision makers in the state. This plan will also provide a necessary resource for each school to apply for additional NSF support through solicitations that expand school infrastructure and training capabilities.A statewide RCI Plan is requisite for organizing and expanding research collaborations and it fosters an economy-of-scale for building compliant facilities and systems and establishing a managed service environment for schools with limited resources. SHARP CCI includes establishing a comprehensive data science training program, Arkansas Cyber Team (ACT), to provide engineers, educators, researchers and students access to technical expertise in a broad range of scientific domains. The project team includes Arkansas Research and Education Optical Network, Great Plains Network, Open Science Grid and NSF’s Engagement and Performance Operations Center to provide engineering and training expertise, managed service experience and help in implementing a statewide RCI Plan for Arkansas.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.