What types of activities will be considered for support under ANNEX 2, Institutional Capacity Building?
Types of activities CAE/IAEs may propose can include faculty development, curriculum development, laboratory improvements and/or faculty research in information security in order to develop a strong foundation for the Scholarship Program. Research areas of interest to DoD are related to the Department’s “Defense in Depth” concept and the Information Security (INFOSEC) Research Council (IRC) “hard problem” list. CAE/IAEs are encouraged to consider these areas in submitting research capacity building proposals: Intrusion and misuse detection Intrusion and misuse response Security of foreign and mobile code Controlled sharing of sensitive information Application security Denial of service Communications security Security management infrastructure Information security for mobile warfare Secure system composition High assurance development Metrics for securityCAE/IAEs must address the extent to which the capacity to be developed supports an information assurance mission need of the DoD; the
