One Veteran’s Journey Veterans journey (30-year AF senior engineer - 2008) Private sector A/E consultant & infrastructure asset manager Post-AF masters/PhD (Post 9/11 VA - 2010-2015) Private consulting company (Eupraxis LLC - 2012 - 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)

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

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, ccallsen@vt. edu