IP: NSA TAPS UNIVERSITIES FOR INFO SECURITY STUDIES -- from Edupage

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

The National Security Agency on Tuesday announced that seven 
universities had been selected as Centers of Academic Excellence 
in Information Assurance Education. NSA, which has broad 
influence on U.S. encryption policy, is responding to a Clinton 
administration directive to seek non-governmental research and 
information on critical infrastructure issues. NSA says the 
centers will become "focal points for recruiting, and may create 
a climate to encourage independent research in information 
assurance." The seven universities--James Madison, George Mason, 
Idaho State, Iowa State, Purdue, Idaho, and the University of 
California at Davis--will be formally named at an IBM information 
security systems conference on May 25-29. (EE Times Online 05/12/99)