CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service (Renewal): Carolina Cyber Defender Scholarship Program

该项目是建立在获奖机构现有的努力基础上的，该机构已经成功地招募、教育和安置了不同的本科生和研究生到政府机构的网络安全职位。这个更新项目将在政府机构招收和教育另外22名本科生和研究生，承诺将80%以上的毕业生安置在联邦行政机构。续约将继续与福赛斯技术社区学院建立合作关系，使三个新的社区学院学生能够在北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校完成本科学位。项目活动将改进课程和组织规划，并使两所机构的大量网络安全和计算机学生受益。这些学位课程的所有毕业生将反过来为雇用他们的组织提供关键的网络安全技能，无论是在政府还是私营部门。该项目的学生将获得广泛的经验，包括创新的网络安全课程，通过课程和网络安全竞赛进行实践培训的机会，与各种网络安全问题领域的教师进行研究的机会，以及通过北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校和福赛斯技术社区学院的多个以网络安全为重点的学生俱乐部进行学生领导和社区服务。项目团队将专注于扩大网络防御培训、可用安全和隐私以及网络分析方面的教育和研究。项目小组还将扩大物联网（IoT）和网络物理系统的活动，并扩大其评估能力。来自三个重点领域的课程材料和练习将广泛共享。共享的材料将扩大sfs支持的项目和其他机构的网络安全项目的教师能力，以培训学生的网络防御、可用安全性和网络分析。项目评估材料还将为其他SFS站点提供改进其项目工作的能力，使全国各地院校的学生受益。该项目由CyberCorps®服务奖学金（SFS）项目支持，该项目资助建立或继续网络安全奖学金项目的提案，这些项目与美国国家网络战略相一致，旨在培养一支优秀的网络安全劳动力。毕业后，奖学金获得者必须在联邦、州、地方或部落政府组织的网络安全部门工作，工作时间与奖学金支持时间相同。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。

This project is building on an existing effort at the awardee institution which has successfully recruited, educated, and placed diverse undergraduate and graduate students into cybersecurity positions in government agencies. This renewal project will recruit and educate an additional 22 undergraduate and graduate students in government agencies, committing to place over 80% of its graduates in federal executive agencies. The renewal will continue an established collaboration with Forsyth Technical Community College, enabling three new cohorts of community college students to complete their undergraduate degrees at UNC Charlotte. Project activities will improve curricula and organizational programming and benefit a large number of cybersecurity and computing students at the two institutions. All graduates from these degree programs will, in turn, provide critical cybersecurity skills to the organizations that employ them, both within the government and the private sector.Students in this project will undertake a breadth of experiences, including an innovative cybersecurity curricula, hands-on training opportunities through courses and cybersecurity competitions, research opportunities with faculty in various cybersecurity problem areas, and student leadership and community service through multiple cybersecurity-focused student clubs at UNC Charlotte and Forsyth Technical Community College. The project team will focus on expanding education and research in cyber defense training, usable security and privacy, and cyber analytics. The project team will also expand activities in the Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyberphysical systems and expand its evaluation capability. Course materials and exercises from the three focus areas will be shared broadly. The shared materials will expand faculty capacity at SFS-supported projects and cybersecurity programs at other institutions, to train students in cyber defense, usable security, and cyber analytics. Project evaluation materials will also provide other SFS sites with enhanced ability to improve their programmatic efforts, benefitting students at institutions around the country.This project is supported by the CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service (SFS) program, which funds proposals establishing or continuing scholarship programs in cybersecurity that aligns with the U.S. National Cyber Strategy to develop a superior cybersecurity workforce. Following graduation, scholarship recipients are required to work in cybersecurity for a federal, state, local, or tribal Government organization for the same duration as their scholarship support.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.