Collaborative Research: Colorado-Washington Security Scholars Program

位于科罗拉多斯普林斯的科罗拉多大学（UCCS）和华盛顿塔科马大学（UWT）联合提议建立一个新的CyberCorps（R）：服务奖学金（SFS）计划，称为科罗拉多-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，提供多个渠道，培养高素质和忠诚的专业人员，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工程与技术学院的学生学者提供奖学金，以便学者能够学习技术技能和知识，以解决不断发展和新出现的网络安全问题。该项目强调团队合作和协作，并将培养能够以系统方法调查网络安全的网络安全专业人员，结合多个专业领域，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关键场景。CWSSP建立在机构之间的合作基础上，将充分利用其跨校园平台来学习和实践远程协作技能，并为未来的机构间教育计划提供示范奖学金/教育计划和蓝图。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6个博士，18个硕士？，和12名本科生，在多个队列，谁将准备工作的网络安全和跨部门的隐私问题，以确保国防。CWSSP将通过促进网络安全方面的合作和资源共享，并积极让政府机构参与进来，推进网络安全研究和教育。为了推进网络安全教育，CWSSP将推出跨校园课程，并将独特的基于团队的方法纳入网络安全教育，并提供有效的机制，将团队和会议/研讨会纳入正规教育。CWSSP计划还将通过让他们参与CWSSP团队和CWSSP会议，与网络安全领域的外部组织进行强有力的外联。通过扩展主办机构之外的合作，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，这些问题可能对保护国家信息基础设施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，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劳动力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值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.