Five First-class (1/c) cadets from the United States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA) recently completed a 4-week cybersecurity research and development internship at the Idaho National Laboratory sponsored by the Department of Energy's Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER). The internships align interdisciplinary research programs to address national challenges and offer a unique opportunity to support both the CESER and Maritime Transportation System mission areas. For example, in 2020 the interns worked with the team focused on securing the nation’s critical infrastructure systems, researching and developing disruption scenarios for both natural gas and liquid pipelines.
This summer, the interns participated onsite at INL and studied two CESER programs: the Consequence-driven Cyber-informed Engineering (CCE) program and Cybersecurity for the Operational Technology Environment (CyOTE) program.
CESER sponsored Service Academy cadets for the first time in 2020 with remote internships due to the COVID-19 pandemic and was thrilled to be able to offer five students an in-person opportunity this year. Participating in this year’s program was Elise Birkhaeuser, studying Operations Research and Computer Analysis with CyOTE; Joram Stith, studying Cyber Systems with CCE; Noah Soto, studying Cyber Systems with CyOTE; Megan Roth, studying Mechanical Engineering with CyOTE; and Thomas Sellers, studying Mechanical Engineering with CCE.
Check out highlights from their experience below:
Source: U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response
