Collaborative Research: Colorado-Washington Security Scholars Program

科罗拉多大学科罗拉多斯普林斯分校(UCCS)和华盛顿大学塔科马分校(UWT)共同提议建立一个新的CyberCorps(R)：服务奖学金(SFS)计划，名为科罗拉多-华盛顿安全学者计划(CWSSP)。CWSSP将利用主办机构的网络安全学位课程及其现有的正式合作，提供多种渠道，培养高素质和尽职尽责的专业人员，加入政府的网络安全工作队伍。CWSSP将为UCCS计算机科学系和UWT工程技术学院的学生学者提供奖学金，使这些学者能够学习技术技能和知识，以应对不断演变和出现的网络安全问题。该项目强调团队合作和协作，并将培养能够用系统方法调查网络安全的网络安全专业人员，将多个专业领域结合起来，以便他们能够在远程环境中有效地相互协作。这是解决网络安全研究问题时经常发生的一个关键场景。CWSSP建立在院校之间的合作基础上，将充分利用其跨校区平台学习和练习远程协作技能，并提供一个奖学金/教育项目的范本和未来院校间教育项目的蓝图。该项目还将让代表性不足的学生参与最先进的网络安全研究，并为他们提供领导经验。CWSSP将支持多个群体中的6名博士、18名硕士和12名本科生，他们将准备好致力于跨部门的网络安全和隐私问题，以确保国防安全。CWSSP将通过促进网络安全领域的合作和资源共享以及政府机构的积极参与来推进网络安全研究和教育。为了推动网络安全教育，CWSSP将推出跨校园课程，将独特的以团队为基础的网络安全教育方法纳入网络安全教育，并提供有效机制，将团队和会议/工作坊纳入正规教育。CWSSP计划还将通过让外部组织参与CWSSP团队和CWSSP会议，在网络安全方面向外部组织进行强有力的拓展。通过将合作扩展到主办机构之外，CWSSP将推动学生学者与政府部门的网络安全专业人员建立联系，并就网络安全问题进行工作/研究，这些问题可能在保护国家信息基础设施方面产生更大的现实影响。CWSSP毕业生将具备网络安全知识和理解、相关技术技能以及团队合作和协作技能，以帮助确保他们准备好参与政府的网络安全工作。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS) and the University of Washington Tacoma (UWT) jointly propose to establish a new CyberCorps (R): Scholarship for Service (SFS) program called Colorado-Washington Security Scholars Program (CWSSP). CWSSP will leverage the host institutions' cybersecurity degree programs and their existing formal collaborations to provide multiple pipelines in generating highly qualified and committed professionals to join the government workforce in cybersecurity. CWSSP will provide scholarships to student scholars in the UCCS Computer Science Department and the UWT School of Engineering and Technology so that the scholars can learn the technical skills and knowledge to address the evolving and emerging cybersecurity issues. The project emphasizes teamwork and collaborations and will produce cybersecurity professionals who can investigate cybersecurity with a systems approach, combining multiple expertise domains so that they can effectively collaborate with each other in remote settings. This is a key scenario that often happens in addressing cybersecurity research problems. CWSSP, built on collaborations between institutions, will fully take advantage of its cross-campus platform to learn and practice remote collaboration skills and to provide a model scholarship/education program and a blueprint for future inter-institution education programs. The project will also engage underrepresented students in state-of-the-art cybersecurity research and provide them with leadership experiences. CWSSP will support six doctoral, eighteen masters?, and twelve undergraduate students, in multiple cohorts, who will be prepared to work on cybersecurity and privacy problems across sectors to secure the national defense. CWSSP will advance cybersecurity research and education by promoting collaboration and resource sharing in cybersecurity and actively involving governmental agencies. To advance cybersecurity education, CWSSP will introduce a cross-campus curriculum and incorporate unique team-based approach to cybersecurity education and deliver effective mechanisms to incorporate teams and conferences/workshops in formal education. The CWSSP program will also have strong outreach to external organizations in cybersecurity by getting them involved in the CWSSP teams and the CWSSP conferences. By extending the collaborations outside of the host institutions, CWSSP will drive the student scholars to make connections with the cybersecurity professionals in the government sector and work/research on the cybersecurity problems which can have stronger real-world impacts in the protection of the nation's information infrastructure. The CWSSP graduates will be equipped with the cybersecurity knowledge and understanding, relevant technical skills, and teamwork and collaboration skills to help ensure their readiness to participate in the government's cybersecurity workforce.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.