It's interesting to note that NIH's funding is not strictly limited to health care and medicine. Often adjacent technologies are also covered, such as sensors and data acquisition systems. I could occasionally found interesting EE/CS papers on NIH's website. It's funny - reading EE/CS papers on a medical website, but these open access papers are extremely helpful. It's your tax dollar at work (in a positive sense)!

For example,

* PRISEC: Comparison of Symmetric Key Algorithms for IoT Devices

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6806263/