Madera Cyber Innovation Center

The Madera Cyber Innovation Center brings together academia, industry and military cyber operators to educate and train cadets.

The facility, opened in April 2025, supports cadet training for military conflicts and the future fight, identify cyber warfare threats, and learn cutting-edge technologies. Here, cadets learn cyber through hands-on opportunities as well as traditional instruction.

The three-story, 48,000-square-foot center contains 14 unique laboratories and classrooms and houses the Department of Computer and Cyber Sciences, Air Force Cyberworx and the Institute for Future Conflict.

Key uses and features of the building include a sensitive compartmented information facility, research and design spaces, labs for cyber training, forensics and reverse engineering, robotics and autonomous systems, telecommunications, industrial control and platform security, and unmanned aerial vehicle operations.

Cyber City is also located in the center. In this lab, cadets use computers to control and hack into the city’s traffic lights, water, and other systems. They also learn to shut down malware and find hackers, take control of city operations, perform digital forensics, and conduct offensive attacks against enemy nation-states.