A Renewed and Expanded Scholarship for Service Program at Mississippi State University

密西西比州立大学(MSU)，2001年美国国家安全局信息保障教育学术卓越中心(CAE/IAE)正在与位于密西西比州的历史上的黑人学院或大学(HBCU)杰克逊州立大学合作，管理一个为期四年的联邦网络服务服务奖学金(SFS)计划。密歇根州立大学还将与塔斯基吉大学合作，推进塔斯基吉的IA项目。该项目由密歇根州立大学工程学院的计算机科学系负责。计算机科学系有一个强大的跨学科信息保证研究计划，涉及来自软件工程、人工智能和高性能计算领域的教师(见http://www.cs.msstate.edu/~security).智力上的优点。密歇根州立大学的SFS计划提供多年的SFS奖学金计划，旨在增加进入联邦信息保障(IA)劳动力的毕业生人数，同时将IA课程在当前计算机科学和电子与计算机工程学生基础之外扩展到商学院和社会科学学科的其他系和校园内的学生。这一扩张与信息技术领域的发展相匹配，并培养了准备更充分的信息技术专业人员。密歇根州立大学和JSU之间的合作正在通过向JSU的学生提供更多的课程和IA教师，并为JSU的学生提供成为SFS学者的机会，来加强JSU的IA课程。这种合作有助于增加联邦IA工作人员的多样性。

Mississippi State University (MSU), a 2001 NSA Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (CAE/IAE) is administering a four-year Federal Cyber Service Scholarship for Service (SFS) program in collaboration with Jackson State University, a Historically Black College or University (HBCU) located within the State of Mississippi. MSU will also work with Tuskegee University to advance Tuskegee's IA program. The program is housed within the MSU College of Engineering by the Computer Science Department. The Department of Computer Science has a robust interdisciplinary information assurance research program, involving faculty from the areas of software engineering, artificial intelligence, and high performance computing (see http://www.cs.msstate.edu/~security). Intellectual merit. The MSU SFS program offers a multiyear build-up of the SFS scholarship program designed to increase the number of graduates entering the federal information assurance (IA) workforce, while at the same time extending the IA course offerings outside the current Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering student base to other departments and students across campus in the business school and social science disciplines. This expansion matches the evolution of the IA field and trains better prepared IA professionals.Broader impact. The collaboration between MSU and JSU is enhancing the IA curriculum at JSU by making additional courses and IA faculty available to JSU students, and by providing an opportunity for JSU students to become SFS scholars. The collaboration is helping to increase the diversity of the federal IA workforce.