The National Security Agency Research Directorate began funding foundational research at Lablet institutions beginning in 2012 through the Science of Security (SoS) Initiative. The Lablets were funded in order to promote foundational cybersecurity science that is needed to mature the cybersecurity discipline and to underpin advances in cyberdefense. In 2014, the SURE project was founded to investigate cybersecurity in the cyber-physical systems realm. The Lablet and SURE projects are listed below.