CyberCorps Scholarship for Service (Renewal): Preparing Cross-disciplinary Cybersecurity and Policy Professionals

Cyber​​Corps 服务奖学金（续签）：培养跨学科网络安全和政策专业人员

• 批准号: 2146093
• 负责人: Thomas Shields
• 金额: $ 544万
• 依托单位: Georgetown University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-06-01 至 2027-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2146093&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CyberCorps; Scholarship; Service; Renewal; Preparing

This renewal continues the CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service (SFS) project at Georgetown University. The funding will support approximately 33 students who work in technology or policy or at the intersection of the two areas. Students will be drawn from various degree programs at Georgetown, including Computer Science, Security Students, and Cybersecurity Risk Management. The project aims to recruit students who would otherwise work in the private sector into Federal government positions that require a high level of analytical thinking and decision making. These roles are essential for oversight, research, analysis, and planning. The project team will continue to build off prior success in attracting students to government service who are from groups that are underrepresented in the cybersecurity field. For example, more than half of the student cohorts to date have been female. In addition, the principal investigators have attracted applications from high school students who are members of groups whose participation in the field lags behind their proportion in the overall population, by developing and offering a STEM track for students in Georgetown’s Summer College Immersion Program (SCIP) and funding participant support. SCIP is a three-week college preparation program designed for rising high school seniors from the Cristo Rey Network and KIPP Foundation school systems which predominately serve underprivileged communities.Students complement their high-quality education with applied experiences in the Washington DC area in the Georgetown SFS project. Students participate in internships at government agencies and meet with cybersecurity and governmental leaders at local events. The project's activities also include significant peer-mentoring, helping to form cross-agency professional networks. Students benefit from working with faculty who have expertise in cybersecurity that spans deep technical areas ranging from artificial intelligence to legal and policy issues surrounding cyber operations and personal privacy. The project also expands awareness of governmental positions for all Georgetown students by working with the Cawley Career Center to bring in governmental speakers and recruiters. These combined efforts will help create a generation of policymakers and managers who can help develop and expand the nation’s cybersecurity challenges by educating cross-disciplinary cybersecurity leaders.This project is supported by the CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service (SFS) program, which funds proposals establishing or continuing scholarship programs in cybersecurity and 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.

此次更新延续了乔治敦大学的CyberCorps®服务奖学金（SFS）项目。这笔资金将支持大约33名在技术或政策领域或两个领域交叉工作的学生。学生将从乔治敦大学的各种学位课程中获得，包括计算机科学，安全学生和网络安全风险管理。该项目旨在招募那些原本会在私营部门工作的学生进入联邦政府职位，这些职位需要高水平的分析思维和决策能力。这些角色对于监督、研究、分析和规划至关重要。该项目团队将继续建立在吸引学生到政府服务谁是来自在网络安全领域代表性不足的群体之前的成功。例如，迄今为止，一半以上的学生群体是女性。此外，主要研究人员还吸引了高中学生的申请，这些学生是参与该领域的团体成员，他们在总人口中的比例落后于他们，他们为乔治敦大学暑期沉浸式项目（SCIP）的学生开发和提供STEM轨道并资助参与者支持。SCIP是一个为期三周的大学预科项目，专为来自克里斯托雷伊网络和KIPP基金会学校系统的高中毕业生设计，这些学校主要服务于贫困社区。学生们通过乔治敦SFS项目在华盛顿地区的应用经验来补充他们的高质量教育。学生参加政府机构的实习，并在当地活动中与网络安全和政府领导人会面。该项目的活动还包括重要的同行指导，帮助形成跨机构专业网络。学生受益于与教师谁拥有网络安全的专业知识，跨越从人工智能到法律的和围绕网络操作和个人隐私的政策问题深技术领域的工作。该项目还通过与考利职业中心合作，引进政府发言人和招聘人员，为所有乔治敦大学的学生扩大对政府职位的认识。这些共同的努力将有助于培养一代决策者和管理者，他们可以通过教育跨学科的网络安全领导者来帮助发展和扩大国家的网络安全挑战。该项目由CyberCorps®服务奖学金（SFS）计划支持，该计划为建立或继续网络安全奖学金计划的提案提供资金，并与美国国家网络战略保持一致，以培养一支上级网络安全人才队伍。毕业后，奖学金获得者需要在联邦，州，地方或部落政府组织的网络安全工作与他们的奖学金支持相同的时间。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得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的支持。