Cyber Policy Studies Lab

Mason Cyber Policy Studies’ Sponsors, Contracts, Grants, Partners and Collaborators

Awards:

Cyber Policy Studies has received multiple awards, including:

  • PI: Minerva Initiative grant – “Habitus of the Information Environment: An ethnographic case study of digital anthropology,” 2022-2027.  
  • Prime / Co-PI: NATO contract: “Information Environment Assessment,” 2021-2022.
  • PI: U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) grant: “Command and Control of the Information Environment: Understanding the social and technical aspects of the information environment in hybrid warfare and complex crisis,” 2017-2021.
  • PI: NATO Science for Peace and Security (SPS) grant: “Senior Leadership Workshop on Hybrid Threats in SE Europe,” 2018-2020.
  • Co-PI: U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD):”Cyber Resilience Readiness Program,”2016-2019.
  • PI: NATO Science for Peace and Security (SPS) grant: “Senior Leadership Roundtable on Military and Defense Aspects of Border Security in SE Europe,” 2016-2018.
  • PI: U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR): “Resilience, Cyber Behavior and the New Information Environment: Implications for defense strategies project,” 2015-2017.
  • Chair: “Understanding the Human Population,” NATO HCOE Human Aspects of the Operational Environment: 2011-2014.
  • PI: U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) and Sandia National Laboratories grant: “Cyber Adversaries Project,” 2015-2017.
  • Creator and Instructor: NATO Centre of Excellence Defense Against Terrorism (COE-DAT):”Terrorist Use of Cyber and Strategic Communications,” 2007-2016.

Partners and Collaborators: 

Cyber Policy Studies has also engaged in collaborations, partnerships and cooperative agreements with multiple organizations for various awards and activities, some requiring memoranda of understanding, letters of agreement and CRADAs. Some examples are:

  • IEEE CogSima
  • Estonian Defense Forces  
  • Estonian Kaitselliit 
  • Sandia National Laboratories, U.S. Department of Energy CRADA 
  • General Mihailo Apostolski Goce Delcev Military Academy, North Macedonia