Dear Zr-ga,
Unfortunately, without knowing what radio station you were listening
to and when you heard the show, I don't think there's anyway I could
find you a transcript. If you do remember the station, you may want to
try contacting them and seeing if they keep transcripts.
However, I believe the program you're referring to is the "Federal
Cyber Service: Scholarships for Service" program. This program is
managed by the National Science Foundation ( http://www.nsf.gov/ ).
Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service Program
http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/ehr/due/programs/sfs/
Through this program, the NSF provides funding to U.S. universities
and colleges that they must use to either setup a scholarship program
or for capacity building. The scholarship program would support two
years of tuition, room and board, and stipend for students in the
information assurance and security area. In return for the scholarship
and stipend, students must agree to two years of service as an
information assurance specialist working for the Federal government.
Capacity building funding may be used by the universities for
information assurance faculty and program development.
Information about the most recent round of awards can be found at
http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/ehr/due/programs/sfs/ . The latest solicitation
had proposal deadline of December 19, 2001.
If you are interested in contacting NSF about this program, their
contact information is:
Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service (SFS) Program
Division of Undergraduate Education
National Science Foundation
4201 Wilson Blvd., Suite 835
Arlington, VA 22230
Phone: 703.292.8669
E-mail: sfs@nsf.gov
Lead program director: Dr. Andrew P. Bernat (abernat@nsf.gov)
NSF is not responsible for awarding scholarships to individuals
however. If you wish to apply for a scholarship, you will need to
contact the financial aid offices in the individual schools. This page
lists the schools that have received funding for the scholarship
track.
SFS Scholarship Track Awards
http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/due/awards/sfs_scholarships.asp
You can also view a complete list of awards (both scholarships and
capacity building) at:
http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/verity/flsrchawdf?&Action=Search&ResultTemplate=flsrchawd.hts&Collection=flaward&ResultCount=25&ResultMaxDocs=1000&QueryText=(awdAwardInstr+%3CSTARTS%3E+'Standard+Grant'+%3COR%3E+awdAwardInstr+%3CSTARTS%3E+'Continuing+Grant'+%3COR%3E+awdAwardInstr+%3CSTARTS%3E+'Cooperative+Agreement'+%3COR%3E+awdAwardInstr+%3CSTARTS%3E+'Interagency+Agreement')+%3CAND%3E+(awdExpires+%3E+5
17-2002)+%3CAND%3E+(awdNSFProgram+%3CSTARTS%3E+'1668')
I also found that President Bush has requested additional funding to
continue this program in the 2003 budget. If you search for
"cybercorps" on this web page, you'll find the paragraph:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/homeland/homeland_security_book.html#8
News Articles:
The U.S. Recruits New Hackers
Wired, September 7, 2001
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,46567,00.html
Colleges train 'cybercorps' recruits
MSNBC, April 2, 2002 (address below is in Google's cache)
http://216.239.35.100/search?q=cache:F4v1T4z0G8sC:www.msnbc.com/news/731318.asp+government+recruits+computer+experts&hl=en
Search terms:
government recruits computer experts
://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&querytime=wD&q=government+recruits+computer+experts
national science foundation
://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&querytime=wD&q=national+science+foundation
"scholarships for service"
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=%22scholarships+for+service%22
I hope you find this information helpful.
Regards,
Gigi |
