CyberCorps Scholarship for Service: High-skilled Workforce Development for the Aviation and Aerospace Cybersecurity Domains

航空和航天网络安全对国家至关重要。作为美国整体交通基础设施的关键组成部分，它保护人民，为美国的繁荣和领导地位做出贡献。该项目以安柏瑞德航空大学（ERAU）的本科和研究生网络安全项目为基础，促进了这一重要领域的劳动力发展。安柏瑞德航空大学（ERAU）的两个校区（佛罗里达州代托纳海滩和亚利桑那州普雷斯科特）在航空和航天网络安全领域有着合作教育和研究活动的历史。该项目在当地被称为“网络鹰”，将推进跨教育项目和研究中心的合作生态系统，为学生在联邦和州机构的生产性网络安全职业和领导角色做好准备。该项目将招募不同的学者，并通过有效的指导、完善的课程、学生参与活动和研究经验创造一个支持性的环境。这些项目的组成部分将有助于建立一个途径，使学生参与到一个他们可以出类拔萃的环境中，并在政府航空和航天管理机构进入一个有回报的职业生涯。该项目旨在培养一支高技能的劳动力队伍，以满足国家在航空和航天网络安全领域的需求，重点关注机载系统的安全关键方面以及相关硬件和软件资产的保护。该项目将在五年内为20名学生提供奖学金。学生学者将受益于ERAU与联邦和州航空和运输管理机构以及航空和航天工业的紧密联系。学者们将有机会通过ERAU主办的航空和航天主题项目、活动和研讨会，与来自政府和行业的顶级网络安全工程师和管理人员会面并学习。此外，该项目将利用ERAU在与飞行操作相关的所有计算和通信服务方面的现场专业知识，包括机载硬件和软件、航空电子设备以及飞机、地面站、雷达系统和卫星系统之间的网络和通信数据链。这些专业知识使奖学金学生处于一个独特的位置，可以在航空航天领域特定系统的设计、开发和操作阶段为网络安全保护做出贡献。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。

Aviation and aerospace cybersecurity is of critical importance to the Nation. As a key component of the overall U.S. transportation infrastructure, it protects people and contributes to American prosperity and leadership. This project promotes workforce development in this vital sector by building on undergraduate and graduate cybersecurity programs at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU), where both ERAU campuses (Daytona Beach, FL and Prescott, AZ) have a history of collaborative education and research activities within the aviation and aerospace cybersecurity domain. Known locally as "Cyber Eagles," the project will advance the collaboration ecosystem across education programs and research centers to prepare students for productive cybersecurity careers and leadership roles in federal and state agencies. The program will recruit diverse scholars and create a supportive environment through effective mentorship, a well-developed curriculum, student involvement activities, and research experiences. These project components will help establish a pathway that enables students to participate in an environment where they can excel and enter a rewarding career in government aviation and aerospace administration agencies.The project aims to develop a high-skilled workforce to cover the Nation’s needs in the area of aviation and aerospace cybersecurity, focusing on the safety-criticality aspects of airborne systems and the protection of associated hardware and software assets. The project will fund 20 scholarships to students over a five-year period. Student scholars will benefit from the strong ties that ERAU has with Federal and state aviation and transportation administration agencies and the aviation and aerospace industry. Scholars will have the opportunity to meet and learn from top cybersecurity engineers and managers from government and industry through aviation and aerospace-themed projects, events, and symposia hosted by ERAU. Furthermore, the project will take advantage of on-site expertise at ERAU in all computation and communication services related to flight operations, including airborne hardware and software, avionics equipment, and network and communication data links among aircraft, ground stations, radar systems, and satellite systems. This expertise places the scholarship students in a unique position to contribute to cybersecurity protection during the design, development, and operation stages of systems specific for the aviation and aerospace domain.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.