News & Announcements

Feb. 4, 2025

Cyber AND: Bridging Disciplines for Cybersecurity Innovation

February 4, 2025 — Webinar | The purpose of this event is to build awareness within the academic community and the Department of Defense about the critical role multidisciplinary collaboration plays in driving innovation in cybersecurity research. Focusing on the ways in which partnerships between STEM fields and the social sciences contribute to addressing complex cybersecurity challenges and highlighting successful collaborations, the webinar aims to inspire researchers to think creatively about leveraging cross-discipline partnerships to tackle emerging cybersecurity threats.

Jan. 8, 2025

Lt. Gen. Mary O'Brien, USAF

Lt. Gen. Mary F. O’Brien is the Director of Command, Control, Communications and Computer/Cyber, and Chief Information Officer, J6, Joint Staff, the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia. She develops C4 capabilities, conducts analysis and assessments, provides Joint and Combined Force C4 guidance, and evaluates C4 requirements, plans, programs and

Dec. 4, 2024

UC2 Winter Workshop

December 3, 2024 — The UC2 Winter Workshop featured presentations from FY24 and FY23 contributors, focusing on topics ranging from modeling and simulation to persona influence, data management, and cyber risk mitigation.

Oct. 7, 2024

Ms. Michele G. Markoff

Ms. Michele Markoff is the former acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Cyberspace Security in the Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy. Since 1998 Michele has been the senior State Department subject matter expert overseeing the development and implementation of foreign policy initiatives on cyberspace issues. She helps to

May 17, 2024

UC2 Summer Workshop

June 6, 2024 — The UC2 Summer Workshop brought together academic and government stakeholders to evaluate the technical progress and operational relevance of two key projects funded by NSA NCAE grants.

March 7, 2024

CR2M Cyber Risks to Missions Management: Framework, Techniques and Prototype

The DoD sought innovative capabilities to manage cyber risks to missions in contested cyber environments, including 7 specific challenges. This project aims to tackle these challenges by proposing an innovative framework, dubbed Cyber Risks to Missions Management (CR2M), as well as supporting techniques and prototype system implementation. CR2M offers a new paradigm of cyber operations with inherent capabilities for managing cyber risks to missions.

March 7, 2024

Low Overhead Zero Trust Solution [Arculus] for the Tactical Warfighting Edge

This talk presents methods to transition Enterprise "Zero Trust" (ZT) solutions to the Tactical Warfighting Edge by creating innovations through a low-overhead ZT reference architecture and its implementation in the denied, disrupted, intermittent and limited environments. The DOD collaborators for this project include: Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and Naval Research Laboratory (NRL).