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COMPUTER and CYBER SCIENCES

Develop computer-based skills and abilities that can be applied in all Air Force career fields.

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The Department of Computer and Cyber Sciences helps cadets develop computer-based skills and abilities that can be applied in all Air Force career fields. After graduation, you might find yourself operating combat communications capabilities or maintaining and defending computer and communications networks. Computer and Cyber Sciences majors who become pilots have the advantage of greater insight into their aircraft and weapons systems, which are highly dependent on software.

The department is home to nearly 25 faculty members—who teach more than 1,400 cadets each year— and the Academy Center for Cyberspace Research (ACCR) which conducts research in cyber warfare, information assurance, unmanned aerial systems, and cyberspace education.

The department is a National Security Agency National Center of Academic Excellence in cyber operations and cyber defense education.

Graduating cadets have opportunities to pursue advanced degrees at the Air Force Institute of Technology or at other internationally known institutions.

The Computer Science program is accredited by the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET.

Computer and Cyber Sciences Faculty & Staff

4th Annual Jean Bartik Computing Symposium

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March 25, 2023

Academy’s Madera Cyber Innovation Center construction in full swing

An artist’s rendering depicts the U.S. Air Force Academy’s Madera Cyber Innovation Center and its architecture. Academy officials collaborated with multiple organizations including the Air Force Academy Foundation to sponsor the $58 million dollar facility, expected to be ready by the 2024 fall semester. The building will allow cadets to stay at the forefront of cyber innovation and problem-solving. (Courtesy photo) U.S. Air Force Academy Strategic Communications U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and regional contractors are underway toward finishing a state-of-the-art construction project that U.S. Air Force Academy officials expect to be ready...

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December 1, 2020

Cadet joint domain exercise incorporates cyber, proves successful

by Ashley D. Murphy, Strategic Communications U.S. Air Force Academy cadets successfully accomplished the first run of the Joint All Domain Environment (JADE) exercise - including cyber as an additional, critical domain. During the exercise, cadets acted as members of an Air Operations Center (AOC), directing two other cadets as remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) pilots during an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) mission leading to a simulated kinetic strike on an ISIS leadership meeting. Cadet Cyber Team members served as a cyber effects cell and cyber liaison officers who were providing cyber ISR to help track the target, and identify who was actually at the meeting....

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July 13, 2020

USAFA Recognizes Class of 2020 Top Graduate

On Thursday 9 July Lt Gen Silveria recognized the United States Air Force Academy Class of 2020 Top Graduate, 2Lt Zack Bailey during a small ceremony in Polaris Hall. Lt Bailey was also recognized as the Outstanding Cadet in Mechanical Engineering, the Outstanding Cadet in Engineering and the Outstanding Cadet in Academic Performance. Lt Bailey is a recipient of the Marshall Scholarship and is on his way to King’s College London in the fall. Congratulations Lt Bailey!

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