As a powerful incentive for students to enter the IA field, DoD offers the Information Assurance Scholarship Program
Nearly every day, the United States faces growing threats and attacks against our critical government systems. DoD’s mission is to address the Nation’s urgent security challenges and to proactively seek solutions to protect and defend our information and information systems. One of the key security challenges DoD faces daily is assuring that the Department's information, information systems, and information infrastructure are protected and available in order to support the Department's transformation to a secure net–centric environment.
Achieving Information Assurance (IA), however, requires more than possessing leading–edge technologies and superior operational capabilities. It requires well–educated, highly skilled, and technically savvy people in a variety of IA–related disciplines. Finding and properly training an adequate number of such personnel is one of the most important challenges DoD faces as we look to the future.
To continue to provide the growing number of trained personnel needed, DoD is working with universities across the country, known as National Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance, often referred to as CAEs, to develop and expand IA–related curricula and to offer programs of study for future IA professionals.
Refer to this Gov site:
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I know veritas_libertas posted a thread on this early last year, this is sorta like a follow up
I recently applied to Polytechnic Institute of NYU for the M.S. in Telecommunications Networks program. I ended up also applying for their M.S. Cybersecurity program after I heard about this DoD scholarship. If I do, I'll pursue it full throttle... Free tuition for a MS degree and guaranteed employment with the Government after graduation? Sweet... I always had an interest in pursuing CCNP Security> CCIE Security and CISSP anyway.
Have any of you received this scholarship? How was your experience during school and after? How has your experience been working in a Federal Agency? What do you guys think about it?
Search for National Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance:
Centers of Academic Excellence - Institutions - NSA/CSS
