Dec. 1, 2025

2024 Cyber Innovators Challenge Award Recipients: 2nd Place winner is University of Missouri, St Louis: Active Defense with an Adversarial Mindset (ADAM) 

The 2024 Cyber Innovators Award 2nd Place winner is University of Missouri, St Louis: Active Defense with an Adversarial Mindset (ADAM) The Active Defense with an Adversarial Mindset (ADAM) project aims to enhance cybersecurity defense by training defenders to think like adversaries. Enabling an adversary-aware mindset requires modeling education

Dec. 1, 2025

2024 Cyber Innovators Challenge Award Recipients Announced 1st Place University of Maryland, START: Modeling & Simulation of Hacktivism as a Social Contagion of Radicalization 

COUNTERING CYBERHACKTIVISM: The Department of Defense University Consortium for Cybersecurity (U2C) and the University of Maryland’s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. (UMD START) are partnering to better understand how cyber hacktivism spreads as a social contagion. This work seeks to partner with Defense and government agencies on identifying, mitigating, and countering cyber hacktivist campaigns. 

July 28, 2025

Dr. Joseph Billingsley

Inducted into the Order of the Raven 17 July 2023.

July 28, 2025

Colonel Jonathan Beasley, USA

Inducted into the Order of the Raven 17 Oct 2023.

July 28, 2025

Mr. James Schmeling

Inducted into the Order of the Raven 4 September 2024.

July 28, 2025

Mr. Mark Duke

Inducted into the Order of the Raven 25 April 2025.

July 28, 2025

Dr. Cassandra C. Lewis

Established the Order of the Raven 15 July 2023.

July 27, 2025

2024 Cyber Beacon Conference

Cyber Beacon 2024: Learning from the Past, Preparing for Tomorrow

July 27, 2025

Topic 1: Modeling and Predictive Analytics

COUNTERING CYBERHACKTIVISM The Department of Defense University Consortium for Cybersecurity (U2C) and the University of Maryland’s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. (UMD START) are partnering to better understand how cyber hacktivism spreads as a social contagion. This work seeks to partner with Defense and government agencies on identifying, mitigating, and countering cyber hacktivist campaigns.

April 29, 2025

“Build it/Break it" Research Showcase

April 29, 2025 — On April 29, 2025, Booz Allen hosted the “Build it/Break it" Research Showcase at the iHub in Annapolis Junction, MD, bringing together key DoD and academic stakeholders to explore UC2 partnerships, engage with research teams, and collaboratively address mission-aligned cybersecurity challenges.