[Nheri-council] Attendance at Large Facilities Cybersecurity Summit

[Rathje, Ellen M]

Hi all:

After our call today, I checked our CA and in section 2.5 it states:
"Awardee shall participate annually, if organized that year, in one NSF supported Large Facility Workshop and one NSF supported Cybersecurity Summit."

Presumably, you all have the same in yours (but please check).  Although Joy intimated that we should all go because it was in our CA and we budgeted for it, here are some thoughts (note that Joy is not copied on this email):
               Every other of the 26 LF's sends one person - we are one LF (with 11 awards)
               It is a waste of time and money for us all to send personnel
We could re-budget the travel costs associated with the summit without NSF approval since it is less than $50k.

Despite the arguments above, it seems that is up to each of you to decide if you are willing to risk not going to the Cybersecurity summit and being out of compliance with your CA.  DesignSafe will have a representative there, so we could propose to Joy that we hold a Zoom call after the Cybersecurity summit to discuss the broad themes presented at the meeting.

Look forward to hearing your thoughts.

Ellen

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