Dr. Jyh-Charn Liu, professor and director of the Real Time Distributed Systems Lab, is currently working on developing algorithms to detect incorrect signals of the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). Not only recognizing them, but finding a way to combat these errors due to spoofing or natural interference is a central focus in the efforts […]
NSA Grants Texas A&M Cybersecurity Center Scholarships
The Texas A&M Cybersecurity Center recently received a $200K grant from the NSA for their Cyber P3i program, focused on cybersecurity workforce development among Army Reservists. Scholarships are for the current 2016-2017 academic year. Eligible recipients will be pursuing cybersecurity studies.
Proactive Cyber Defense
Dr. Guofei Gu, associate professor and director of the Secure Communication and Computer Systems (SUCCESS) lab at Texas A&M, has developed techniques to automatically uncover unknown vulnerabilities in existing software so that defenders can detect the problems ahead of cyber attackers. This technique has identified more than two dozen serious vulnerabilities in widely used software […]
Smart Grid Center awarded grant from Department of Energy
The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station’s (TEES) Smart Grid Center has received a new grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) that will further the center’s mission to strengthen and protect the nation’s power grid. The grant is one of 12 given to projects across the United States as part of $34 million in federal […]
Texas A&M University Recognized as Leader in Cyber-Defense
The technology management program in the College of Education and Human Development has received another boost from the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security. Texas A&M was recently designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) for Cyber Defense both in education and research.