History
2001 - NUCIA Founded
NUCIA began with a series of telephone calls between the Dean of the College of Information Science and Technology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and a professor of Information Assurance (IA) from Georgia Tech, Blaine Burnham. In this discussion, Dr. Burnham, a 10 year veteran of the NSA, described a program that would introduce principles of IA to interested UNO students. Burnham's vision was to create a program that would teach the foundational principles of information assurance to qualified students as well as the community.
2004 - Maturing
- Current NUCIA faculty recruited and assembled.
- The first drafts of the proposed Degree in IA are drawn up and revised.
- Information assurance courses begin
- First SFS cyber corps students arrive and begin their concentrations in IA. These former students currently hold positions in various "three letter agencies" and national laboratories as information assurance professionals.
2006 - Students Go Forth
- First group of SFS students graduate and attain employment in various government agencies and national laboratories. Among the government institutions these students work for are the
National Security Agency, Department of Transportation, Department of the Treasury, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Defense Intelligence Agency, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Department of Agriculture, U.S. Strategic Command.
- Second group of SFS students begin IA education.
2007 - Degree Arrives
- IA degree offered from the University of Nebraska at Omaha for the first time.
- Half of the second batch of SFS graduate and pursue careers in Information Assurance.
