Today, more than at any time in the past, the U. S. Department of Defense depends upon a vast, interconnected, global information infrastructure to conduct its operations. By utilizing and securing the most sophisticated networked information systems in the world, the DoD maintains a substantial information advantage over any potential adversary, which is a key contributor to mission success. Protecting and securing this information advantage is critical to the national security of the United States and its allies.

• IASP Qualifying Studies Include:
• Biometrics
• Business Management or Administration **
• Computer Engineering
• Computer Forensics
• Computer Programming
• Computer Science **
• Computer Support
• Computer Systems Analysis
• Cryptography
• Database Administration
• Defensive Information Systems
• Electrical Engineering
• Electronics Engineering
• Information Assurance ** (PSS Department)
• Information Assurance Systems
• Information Security ** (PSS Department)
• Mathematics **
• Operations Research
• Risk Management ** (PSS Department)
• Software Engineering
• Systems/Network Administration and Operations
• Systems Security Engineering
• Threat and Vulnerability Assessments ** (PSS Department)
• Web Security

The DoD Information Assurance Scholarship Program (IASP)

Are You Ready to Take on our Nation’s Information Security Challenges?

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) mission to address our Nation’s urgent security challenges is: Assure the Department's information, information systems and information infrastructure and support the Department's transformation to network and data-centric operations and warfare. Achieving information assurance (IA), however, requires more than possessing leading-edge technologies and superior operational capabilities. It requires well-educated, highly skilled personnel in a variety of IA-related disciplines. Finding and properly training an adequate number of such personnel is one of the most important challenges the DoD faces as we look to the future.

To continue to provide the growing number of trained personnel needed, the DoD is working with universities across the country, known as National Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance (CAEs), to develop and expand IA-related curricula and to offer programs of study for future IA professionals. As a powerful incentive for students to enter the IA field, the DoD is offering the Information Assurance Scholarship Program.

What is IASP?

The Information Assurance Scholarship Program (IASP) is designed to recruit the nation’s top IA talent to the DoD workforce to secure our nation against the threats to its information systems and networks.

Who are the recruitment students?

Recruitment students are individuals not currently employed by the DoD or the federal government and who are enrolled in or applying to universities designated as CAEs. Scholarships for recruitment students are provided for Bachelor’s (Junior and Senior year only), Master’s, and Doctoral degrees in IA-related disciplines.

What are the benefits of the IASP for recruitment students?

• Academic scholarships covering full tuition, fees, and books
• Stipends for students
• Paid Internships in IA roles at the DoD
• Travel expenses for IA conferences and other learning and networking opportunities
• An IA job within the DoD following graduation (pending clearance)
• Prior to graduation, students complete an internship (approximately 10-14 weeks). Upon graduation, students move into their full-time positions within the DoD. Students are required to work in the DoD a minimum of one year for each year of scholarship support they received under the IASP.

How can I apply for the IASP?

Scholarship program is available only for U.S. Citizens who are rising juniors (junior status by August 2010), seniors or graduate students pursuing any field of study listed above.

Application materials can be found in http://cio-nii.defense.gov/sites/iasp2/prospective.html

Applications are due on 2/12/2010 in Room P-444 of the Education and Professional Studies Building to Dr. John W. Collins, Jr., CPP (201) 200-3179

If you are interested in the IASP and contributing to the security of the United States by working at the DoD, please visit our Web site at: http://cio-nii.defense.gov/sites/iasp2/