RINGS

Resilient & Intelligent NextG Systems

The Resilient & Intelligent NextG Systems (RINGS) program is a partnership between the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD R&E), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and a number of industry partners.

The RINGS program seeks to accelerate research in areas that will potentially have significant impact on emerging Next Generation (NextG) wireless and mobile communication, networking, sensing, and computing systems, along with global-scale services, with a focus on greatly improving the resiliency of such networked systems among other performance metrics.

RINGS PI 4 is Happening February 5th, 2026

This year’s RINGS PI Event will be held virtually via Microsoft Teams, making it easy for everyone to join from any location. We’re excited to feature a strong lineup of presenters who will be sharing valuable updates, insights, and innovations from across the program. For the full agenda, session descriptions, and additional event details, please visit the RINGS PI 4 Page. To Attend the event be sure to jump onto the PI 4 Page over at RINGS Connect.

RINGS PI 3 Held February 4 – 6, 2025

Featured Projects

Bringing Post-Quantum Cryptography to Large-Scale NextG Systems

Integrating concepts from quantum-safe device level security, wireless networking, security management and network evaluation in ways that have not been studied before.

A Deep Reinforcement Learning Enabled Large-scale UAV Network with Distributed Navigation, Mobility Control, and Resilience

Leveraging and significantly advancing the recent breakthroughs in NextG wireless communications, deep machine learning, hardware-aware model generation, and robust and trustworthy artificial intelligence, to enable the design of an intelligent and resilient UAV navigation and planning system.

Accelerating the NextG Protocols Definition to Code Generation with an Automatic and Secure Verification-Compilation Tool-Chain

Leveraging technical advancements in formal language for protocol description, formal verification for security analysis, and program synthesis for code generation.