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

此次续签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在这两个领域的交叉点工作的学生。学生将来自乔治敦大学的各种学位课程，包括计算机科学、安全专业和网络安全风险管理。该项目旨在招募原本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。项目组将继续在以往成功的基础上，吸引来自网络安全领域代表性不足的群体的学生加入政府服务部门。例如，到目前为止，超过一半的学生是女性。此外，主要调查人员通过为乔治敦大学暑期大学沉浸计划(SCIP)的学生开发和提供STEM赛道并资助参与者支持，吸引了高中生的申请，这些学生所在的团体在这一领域的参与落后于他们在总人口中的比例。SCIP是一项为期三周的大学预科计划，专为克里斯托雷网络和KIPP基金会学校系统的高三学生设计，这些学校系统主要服务于贫困社区。学生通过在乔治敦SFS项目中在华盛顿特区地区的应用经验来补充他们的高质量教育。学生们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，帮助形成跨机构的专业网络。学生受益于与在网络安全方面拥有专业知识的教员合作，这些教员涵盖从人工智能到围绕网络运营和个人隐私的法律和政策问题等深层次技术领域。该项目还通过与考利职业中心合作，引入政府演讲者和招聘人员，扩大了所有乔治敦大学学生对政府职位的认识。这些共同努力将有助于培养一代政策制定者和管理者，他们可以通过培养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开展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，以培养一支优秀的网络安全队伍。毕业后，奖学金获得者被要求在联邦、州、地方或部落政府组织的网络安全工作中工作，时间与他们的奖学金支持相同。这一奖项反映了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。

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.