News & Announcements

Oct. 3, 2023

2023 DoD UC2 Workshop Hosted by CIC

UC2 hosts its flagship workshop on December 6, 2023 at NDU.

Sept. 6, 2023

2023 Cyber Beacon Conference

The 10th annual Cyber Beacon is the flagship conference of the College of Information and Cyberspace (CIC) at National Defense University (NDU). The conference will be held on October 19 & 20, 2023, as an in-person and virtual event. All students are invited to attend.

May 6, 2023

We are redesignated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity!

We are, again, designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE-C) by the National Security Agency (NSA)! During the first year of the NSA's center of academic excellence (CAE) program, two decades ago, we were designated a CAE. As of 4 May 2023, we have been designated a CAE in Cyber Defense (CAE-CD). Find out more at

March 31, 2023

Curriculum Summit

Col Ken Miller, Cyber LDP Director, speaks at the 2023 Curriculum Summit. 

March 31, 2023

Major General Akisugu Kimura Visit

Major General Akisugu Kimura (CIC Class of 2021 Alumni and Inaugural Commander of the Cyber Defense Command of Japan) visiting Chancellor Lewis in Marshall Hall (28 March 2023)

Feb. 9, 2023

Chancellor's Lecture Series 2023

The National Defense University community is invited to attend the Chancellor's Lecture Series featuring Dr. Chris Miller author of Chip War. The event will take play from 2-3:15pm Thursday February 23, 2023. In-person attendance in Lincoln Hall auditorium is encouraged. There will be a remote viewing option available through the Sunday Skim.

Feb. 6, 2023

Michele Markoff, Department of State, is our 2023 Rear Admiral Grace Hopper Award Recipient

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 coordinate United States policy on the spectrum of cyber-related policy issues across the Department, develops diplomatic strategies to encourage states to join the United States in taking steps to protect their critical networks and to cooperate internationally to enhance and preserve global cyber stability. She implements those strategies through negotiations in a wide variety of venues. Her initiative led to the successful completion of the first ever bilateral agreement on confidence-building in cyber space between the United State and the Russian Federation, announced in June, 2013. Michele also has been the United States Government Expert on five Groups of UN Government Experts (2005, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2016) devoted to international security cyber issues. The last three GGEs led to landmark consensus reports regarding norms for state activity in cyberspace. Ms. Markoff is also the architect of two agreements on cyber confidence-building measures in the Organization of Security Cooperation in Europe, and a similar initiative in the ASEAN Regional Forum. Ms. Markoff was trained as an expert in Russian and Chinese military affairs and decision-making and spent the first half of her career in a variety of strategic nuclear arms control-related posts, among them as State Department Advisor and then Executive Secretary to the START I Talks; later as Senior Policy Advisor and Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency’s Policy Planning Group. Ms. Markoff has a B.A. in International Relations from Reed College, an M.A. in International Relations and an M.Phil.in Political Science from Yale University, and a M.Sc. in National Security Strategy from the National War College of the United States. She also attended high school in the former Soviet Union and attended the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Feb. 2, 2023

Jen Easterly

Jen Easterly is the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Ms. Easterly was nominated by President Biden in April 2021 and unanimously confirmed by the Senate on July 12, 2021. As Director, Ms. Easterly leads CISA’s efforts to understand, manage, and reduce risk to the cyber and physical infrastructure Americans

Feb. 2, 2023

Michele G. Markoff

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 coordinate