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

这个项目是建立在获奖机构现有努力的基础上的，该机构已经成功地招聘、教育并将不同的本科生和研究生安置到政府机构的网络安全职位上。这一更新项目将在政府机构额外招收和培养22名本科生和研究生，承诺将80%以上的毕业生安置在联邦执行机构。续签将继续与福赛斯技术社区学院建立的合作，使三批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他们的本科学位。项目活动将改进课程和组织规划，并使这两个机构的大量网络安全和计算机专业学生受益。所有这些学位课程的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，包括政府和私营部门。该项目的学生将承担广泛的经验，包括创新的网络安全课程，通过课程和网络安全竞赛的实践培训机会，与教师在各种网络安全问题领域的研究机会，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提供学生领导力和社区服务。该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。项目组还将扩大物联网(IoT)和网络物理系统方面的活动，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被广泛分享。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，以培训学生在网络防御、可用安全和网络分析方面的能力。项目评估材料还将为其他SFS网站提供增强的能力，以改进其计划工作，使全国各地机构的学生受益。该项目得到CyberCorps®服务奖学金(SFS)计划的支持，该计划为建立或继续提供网络安全奖学金计划的建议提供资金，该计划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 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.