CyberCorps Scholarship for Service: Excellence, Ethics, and Strategic Thinking

该项目在宾夕法尼亚州西部的罗伯特莫里斯大学（RMU）建立了一个新的CyberCorps®服务奖学金（SFS）计划，该计划将招募和培养具有强烈道德和战略思维能力的优秀网络安全人才，以捍卫美国的网络空间。该项目的总体目标是招募高素质和多样化的网络人才，并将他们培养成网络安全专业人员，以满足联邦、州、地方和部落政府劳动力日益增长的需求。该项目将利用现有的网络安全计划，让学生与教师导师和政府专业人员密切参与研究和道德培训，提供政府服务所需的教育和培训。它将利用新的经验数据实施和改进一个独特而全面的指导模式，以有利于更广泛的国家网络安全教育工作。该项目旨在将SFS奖学金扩展到历史上从合作伙伴社区学院招募的学生人数不足的学生群体。RMU是由美国国家安全局/国土安全部（NSA/DHS）指定的网络防御教育学术卓越中心（CAE-CDE）和由美国空军协会指定的国家网络爱国者卓越中心（COE）。RMU SFS项目将招募和毕业选定的学生在这两个网络安全学士学位。和4+1集成网络安全MS。程序.所有SFS学生都必须完成网络安全研究，网络安全道德，和SFS研讨会每学期。作为网络安全硕士的一部分，学生将学习三门课程，重点是研究。SFS项目独特的指导模式包括学术指导、职业指导、课外指导和道德指导。RMU SFS项目团队将利用与联邦和地方政府的工作关系，为学生提供实习机会。该项目由CyberCorps®服务奖学金（SFS）计划提供支持，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。

The project establishes a new CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service (SFS) program at Robert Morris University (RMU) in western PA that will recruit and develop excellent cybersecurity talent with strong ethics and strategic thinking skills to defend America’s cyberspace. The general goal of the project is to recruit highly qualified and diverse cyber talent and develop them into cybersecurity professionals to meet the growing needs of the federal, state, local and tribal government workforce. The project will utilize an existing cybersecurity program to closely engage students in research and ethical training with faculty mentors and government professionals, providing the education and training needed for government service. It will implement and improve a unique and comprehensive mentoring model with new empirical data to benefit the broader national cybersecurity education effort. The project aims to extend the SFS scholarship to student populations that are historically underrepresented by recruiting from partner community colleges. RMU is a national Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education (CAE-CDE) designated by the National Security Agency/Department of Homeland Security (NSA/DHS) and a national CyberPatriot Center of Excellence (COE) designated by the US Airforce Association. The RMU SFS project will recruit and graduate selected students in both the Cybersecurity B.S. and the 4+1 integrated Cybersecurity M.S. programs. All SFS students are required to complete Cybersecurity Research, Cybersecurity Ethics, and a SFS Seminar every semester. As part of the Cybersecurity M.S., students will take three courses with a strong research emphasis. The unique mentoring model for the SFS project consists of academic mentoring, career guidance, extra-curricular mentoring, and ethical guidance. The RMU SFS project team will utilize working relationships with federal and local governments to provide student internship opportunities.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.