Award Abstract # 2235183
CyberCorps Scholarship for Service: A Clinical Rotation Approach to Professional Cybersecurity Workforce Development

NSF Org: DGE
Division Of Graduate Education
Recipient: OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
Initial Amendment Date: December 14, 2022
Latest Amendment Date: March 14, 2024
Award Number: 2235183
Award Instrument: Continuing Grant
Program Manager: Li Yang
liyang@nsf.gov
 (703)292-0000
DGE
 Division Of Graduate Education
EDU
 Directorate for STEM Education
Start Date: January 1, 2023
End Date: December 31, 2027 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount: $4,799,707.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date: $1,727,359.00
Funds Obligated to Date: FY 2023 = $1,727,359.00
History of Investigator:
  • Rakesh Bobba (Principal Investigator)
    rakesh.bobba@oregonstate.edu
  • Zane Ma (Co-Principal Investigator)
  • David Nevin (Co-Principal Investigator)
  • Sanghyun Hong (Co-Principal Investigator)
  • Yeong Jang (Former Co-Principal Investigator)
Recipient Sponsored Research Office: Oregon State University
1500 SW JEFFERSON AVE
CORVALLIS
OR  US  97331-8655
(541)737-4933
Sponsor Congressional District: 04
Primary Place of Performance: Oregon State University
1500 SW JEFFERSON ST
CORVALLIS
OR  US  97331-8655
Primary Place of Performance
Congressional District:
04
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): MZ4DYXE1SL98
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s): CYBERCORPS: SCHLAR FOR SER
Primary Program Source: 04002324DB NSF STEM Education
Program Reference Code(s): 093Z, 7254, 9102, 9178, 9179, SMET
Program Element Code(s): 1668
Award Agency Code: 4900
Fund Agency Code: 4900
Assistance Listing Number(s): 47.076

ABSTRACT

This project establishes a new CyberCorps®: Scholarship for Service (SFS) program at Oregon State University (OSU) to prepare highly qualified cybersecurity professionals to serve in federal, state, local, and tribal governments. Through a unique approach based on clinical rotations, the program will produce professionals ready to protect the nation's infrastructure against cyber adversaries. NSF funding will support scholarships of 29 undergraduate and graduate students in four cohorts over five years. This project will emphasize recruitment, retention, and placement of underrepresented and underserved groups in cybersecurity including women, first-generation college students, and low-income students, and will evaluate and refine the clinical rotations approach to serve as a replicable model for developing a highly skilled cybersecurity workforce.

With the goal of meeting the need for well-qualified cybersecurity professionals, OSU developed the Oregon Research and Teaching Security Operations Center (ORTSOC), a world-class security operations center that serves as the cornerstone of a rotation-based model. OSU?s cybersecurity degree option provides next generation of cyber defenders and researchers a unique service-learning experience through for-credit rotations at ORTSOC, while offering cybersecurity services to underserved government and other public organizations throughout the region. Those rotations at the ORTSOC, combined with OSU?s rigorous cybersecurity curriculum and extracurricular activities, provide a unique blend of classroom and experiential learning opportunities for our cybersecurity students. Research involvement for students at both the undergraduate and graduate level will help further develop critical and creative thinking skills in the students, better preparing them to thrive in a rapidly evolving field.

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.??
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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.

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