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

此次续签延续了乔治城大学的赛博军团®服务奖学金（SFS）项目。这笔资金将支持大约33名从事技术、政策或这两个领域交叉工作的学生。学生将从乔治城大学的不同学位课程中抽取，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、分析和计划是必不可少的。项目团队将继续在先前成功的基础上，吸引来自网络安全领域代表性不足的群体的学生到政府服务。例如，到目前为止，超过一半的学生是女性。此外，主要研究人员还通过为乔治城大学暑期浸入式课程（SCIP）的学生开发和提供STEM课程，并为参与者提供资金支持，吸引了高中生的申请，这些高中生是参与该领域的群体的成员，他们在总人口中的比例落后于他们。SCIP是一个为期三周的大学预备课程，专为来自Cristo Rey Network和KIPP Foundation学校系统的即将毕业的高中生设计，这些学校主要服务于贫困社区。在乔治敦SFS项目中，学生在华盛顿特区地区的应用经验补充了他们的高质量教育。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侪辅导，帮助形成跨机构的专业网络。学生们将受益于与在网络安全领域拥有专业知识的教师合作，这些专业知识涵盖了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入的技术领域。该项目还通过与考利就业中心合作，邀请政府发言人和招聘人员，扩大了所有乔治城学生对政府职位的认识。这些共同的努力将有助于培养一代决策者和管理人员，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 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.