1. One Veteran’s Journey
Veterans journey (30-year AF senior engineer )
Private sector A/E consultant & infrastructure asset manager
Post-AF masters/PhD (Post 9/11 VA )
Private consulting company (Eupraxis LLC present)
Veterans support programs in VA/NOVA
Local network (NOVA Regional Commission, MOAA BANG)
VT cybersecurity adjunct and Commonwealth Cyber Initiative
Federal Aviation Administration senior executive (national infrastructure, homeland security and cyber committee)

2. Hume Center For National Security and Technology
Centers
NSF Security and Software Engineering Research Center
NSA Centers for Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Research and Cyber Operations
Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence
Electronic Systems
Assured and Secure Communications
Radar and Electronic Warfare
Resilient C4ISR Payloads
Aerospace and Ocean Systems
Resilient Mission Platforms and Systems
Autonomy and Mission Orchestration
Space Situational Awareness
Intelligent Systems
Applied Machine Learning
Data Analytics
Cyber Operations
Cyber-Physical Security
Automobile Cybersecurity
Aircraft Cybersecurity
IoT and 5G Security
RF Machine Learning
Deep Learning on RF Data
Neural Signal Processing
Cognitive Communications
Research Laboratories
Major Research Initiatives
Space Resilience
Mission Autonomy
Platform and Payload Resilience
Mission Disaggregation
University institute focused on national security research and experiential learning
75 faculty and staff
$12M/year research expenditures
Experiential
Learning
National Security and Cybersecurity Curriculum
Co-Curricular Undergraduate and Graduate Research
Internships and Career Mentorship

3. Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI)
Virginia Tech leading CCI from Northern Virginia in collaboration with public universities around the Commonwealth 
CCI is focusing in three main areas:  
Workforce development (for the emerging cyber workforce and continuing education/retraining the existing workforce)
Research & development (first focus is the Internet of Things)
Innovation and entrepreneurship (supporting and growing the tech economy of Northern Virginia.)    
VT and Hume Center leadership engaging area employers, other Virginia universities, and industry and government partners    
Refer any additional inquires to Christine Callsen, edu