Bio
Lt Col Hancock is the Director of the Academy Center for Cyberspace Research and an instructor with the Department of Computer and Cyber Sciences at the United States Air Force Academy.
Lt Col Hancock entered the Air Force in 2004 through ROTC at Utah State University. He has held a variety of cyberspace operations positions related to cyber warfare, communications support, and academia. Most recently he commanded a detachment based at Nellis AFB, Nevada, responsible for integrating cyberspace capabilities into USAF Warfare Center exercises, including RED FLAG.
Lt Col Hancock is a Distinguished Graduate of the Air Force Institute of Technology and has completed his PhD coursework at the University of Utah, with a focus on software defined networking.
Education
Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Utah State University, Logan, Utah (2004)
Master of Science, Computer Science, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio (2011)
Squadron Officer School, Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base, Alabama (2012)
Professional Experience
Director, Academy Center for Cyberspace Research, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado (June 2023 – Present)
Commander, Detachment 2, 318th Cyberspace Operations Group, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada (June 2021 – June 2023)
Commander, NATO Communications & Information Systems Support Unit Norfolk, Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads, Virginia (June 2019 – June 2021)
Deputy Commander, NATO Communications & Information Systems Support Unit Norfolk, Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads, Virginia (August 2018 – June 2019)
PhD Student, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah (June 2015 – August 2018)
Instructor, Department of Computer Science, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado (June 2013 – June 2015)
Flight Commander, Operations Flight, 315th Network Warfare Squadron, Fort Meade, Maryland (April 2011 – June 2013)
Student, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio (May 2009 – April 2011)
Deputy Flight Commander, 29th Intelligence Squadron, Fort Meade, Maryland (September 2007 – May 2009)
Deputy Chief, USAFE/A6 Director's Action Group, Ramstein Airbase, Germany (February 2006 – September 2007)
Branch Chief, Network Operations and Security Center, USAFE Computer Systems Squadron, Ramstein Airbase, Germany (December 2005 – February 2006)
Theater Project Manager, USAFE Computer Systems Squadron, Ramstein Airbase, Germany (September 2004 – December 2005)
Honors & Awards
2020 Outstanding Leadership, NATO Communications and Information Agency
2013 Information Dominance Cyberspace Outstanding Company Grade Officer, U.S. Air Force Academy
2012 General John P. Jumper Excellence in Warfighting Integration Officer, 67th Network Warfare Wing
2011 Company Grade Officer of the Year, 315th Network Warfare Squadron
2011 Distinguished Graduate, Air Force Institute of Technology
Research and Scholarly Interests
Software Defined Networking, Network Functions Virtualization, Artificial Intelligence, Multi-Objective Optimization, Multi-Agent Systems
Publications
Hancock, David, and Jacobus Van der Merwe. “Hyper4: Using p4 to virtualize the programmable data plane.” Proceedings of the 12th International on Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies. 2016.
Hancock, David. “A multi agent system for flow-based intrusion detection using reputation and evolutionary computation.” (2011).
Hancock, David L., and Gary B. Lamont. “Multi agent systems on military networks.” 2011 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS). IEEE, 2011.
Hancock, D., and G. Lamont. “Reputation in a multi agent system for flowbased network attack classification.” IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Agents. 2011.