Information and Cyber Labs
The NDU iCollege laboratories (iLabs) provide adaptable and customizable immersive learning environments designed to enhance iCollege learning outcomes, reproduce real-world scenarios, and provide a venue for innovative uses of emerging technologies to educate military and civilian senior leaders. The iLabs provide experiential, adult learning through flexible and mobile courses and workshops across the globe.
Cyber-Security Attack/Defend, and SCADA/Infrastructure Protection Labs: As a NSA-designated Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education, the iCollege operates two cyber security labs addressing threats to information systems. The Cyber Attack/Defend Lab provides an environment to examine computer and network defense through exercises in intrusion techniques, mitigation, and forensics. The Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Lab simulates realistic exploits and protections of various industrial control systems, such as electrical, oil, gas, water, and transportation grids.
Crisis Management and Gaming/Simulation Lab: This lab enables students to experience crisis situations (e.g., dirty bomb attack, bridge explosion, etc.) and role play with other students to determine how the crisis should be managed. Professors take students through various scenarios to prepare them for stressful decision making environments. In the same lab, individuals and groups can experiment with distributed asynchronous/synchronous gaming and simulation events while providing both physical and virtual spaces. Infrastructure capable of displaying multiple real-time, simulated, and a mixture of data feeds is designed to reproduce global scenarios. The lab provides a unique hands-on environment for faculty and students to experience, test, explore, and research technological and pedagogical advancements.
Ci Center, or Center for Innovation: The newest iCollege lab is an “instructional ecosystem” that uses cutting-edge technologies, flexibly integrates the latest physical and technical elements, and enables access to multiple learning environments. It facilitates instructional methodologies and strategies that take advantage of “anywhere-anytime” capabilities. This is a unique and highly customizable instructional space that offers a complete range of physical and virtual interactions designed to facilitate learning across various realities.
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