Educating Science and Engineering Leaders for Cyber War Solutions

To win the cyber wars with breakthough technology will require a next generation of engineers and scientists with advanced degrees in mathematics, electrical and computer engineering, computer sciences and operations analysis. Finding ways to inspire students volunteering for difficult academic studies is one of the chapter's missions: STEM on steroids.

Quarterly AFCEA John McReynolds Wozencraft awards recognize top achievers in Master of Science and doctoral programs. Cmdr. Thor Martinsen, USN, has been the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) military curricular officer since June 2012 and continues working closely with Vice Adm. Jan Tighe, USN, Ph.D., and the Navy's 10th Fleet on graduate level cyber educational needs. Cmdr. Martinsen will be the first NPS permanent military professor for cyber while completing his Ph.D. in applied mathematics. One of his students, Anthony J. Kubat Jr., was selected by as the 126th AFCEA Wozencraft awardee in electrical and computer engineering.

Kubat is a civilian Defense Department USAF electronic warfare engineer and returns to Edwards Air Force Base 417th group. His winning masters thesis was "Missile Radar Systems: Parametric Differences and Their Impact on Electronic Attack Effectiveness." He was honored with his wife and children and NPS leadership in March at the pregraduation ceremonies in the world famous Hotel Del Monte McNitt Ballroom where chapter co-founder, the late Darryl F. Zanuck, a former Army colonel with the Signal Corps, dined often in the late 1930s.

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