University of New Haven CyberCorps Scholarship for Service (SFS): Super Cyber Operatives (SCOs)

纽黑文大学是康涅狄格州第一个指定的国家网络作战学术卓越中心。该计划的重点是培养学生具有较强的动手技术技能，加上多学科，创业和研究的心态。该大学还通过让学生参加大量的网络竞赛，使他们能够在竞争激烈的环境中工作。该方法将扩展到资助学生群体。所有的SFS学者都将接受严格的课程学习，其中包括研究和体验机会，并将成为大学竞争激烈的网络大学团队的一员。SFS学者还将参加各种行之有效的外展活动，如一年一度的GenCyber特工暑期学院，以及为期一天的康涅狄格州网络特工营女童子军。该项目的主要目的是满足日益增长的对高技能、创新思维的网络安全专业人员的需求，以保护国家并进入政府工作队伍。纽黑文大学提出了康涅狄格州首个网络军团服务奖学金（SFS）项目，该项目将培养下一代超级网络特工（SCOs），为政府网络安全工作做好准备。通过利用现有的基础设施和倡议，CyberCorps SFS SCOs计划将重点从网络运营路径中选择本科大四学生（第一学期）成为本科SFS学者。然后，这些学生将以SFS网络安全与网络研究生学者的身份完成他们的硕士学位。学生将在获得SFS奖学金的前两年在联邦、州、地方或部落政府组织实习，担任与网络安全相关的职位。具体而言，该计划旨在培养：(1)具有深厚的技术实干家和多学科思考者；(2)具有创业和应用研究思维；(3)具有竞争力但具有团队意识；(4)重视多样性和包容性；(5)具有高效的技术沟通能力。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识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 New Haven is the first designated National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations in the state of Connecticut. The program focuses on producing students with strong hands-on technical skills coupled with multidisciplinary, entrepreneurial and research mindsets. The university also enables students to operate in competitive environments by having them participate in a multitude of cyber competitions. The approach will be extended to cohorts of SFS Scholars. All SFS scholars will undergo a rigorous curriculum augmented with research and experiential opportunities and will be a part of the university's competitive cyber collegiate teams. SFS scholars will also participate in a variety of well-established outreach activities such as the yearly GenCyber Agent Summer Academy, and one-day Girl Scouts of Connecticut Cyber Agent Camp. The principal aim of this project is to meet the rising need for highly-skilled, out-of-the-box thinking cybersecurity professionals to protect the nation and enter its governmental workforce. The University of New Haven proposes Connecticut's first CyberCorps Scholarship for Service (SFS) program that will produce the next generation of Super Cyber Operatives (SCOs) that will be ready to enter the government's cybersecurity workforce. By leveraging existing infrastructure and initiatives, the CyberCorps SFS SCOs program will focus on selecting undergraduate seniors (first semester) from the Cyber Operations paths to become undergraduate SFS Scholars. These students will then complete their MSc degrees as graduate SFS Scholars in Cybersecurity & Networks. The students will intern at a federal, state, local, or tribal government organization in a position related to cybersecurity within their first two years as an SFS Scholar. Specifically, the program aims to develop SFS Scholars that: (1) are deeply technical doers yet multidisciplinary thinkers, (2) possess entrepreneurial and applied research mindsets, (3) are competitive yet team-oriented, (4) value diversity and inclusion, and (5) are highly effective technical communicators.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.