Information Assurance Scholarship Program (IASP),
U.S. Department of Defense
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The Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education at UB (CAEIAE@Buffalo) announces a great opportunity for Education and Guaranteed Employment in the Department of Defense (DoD). The goal of this Information Assurance Scholarship Program is to support the development of information assurance specialists within the DoD. Students, both undergraduate and graduate from the academic disciplines, with concentrations in information assurance, would include, but are not limited to Mathematics, Biometrics, Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Programming, Computer Support, Data Base Administration, Computer Systems Analysis, Operations Research, Information Security (Assurance), and Business Management or Administration. Applicants should be citizens of United States.

The Scholarship, which pays for the full cost of tuition, fees, books, lab expenses, supplies and equipment incurred by students selected for the program carries an additional stipend of $10,000 for undergraduate students and $15,000 for graduate students and award announcements will be made in late May/early June 2004.

Application Deadline: February 20, 2004. Go to
http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/caeiae/ site for the application
package and full details of the scholarship.