Research is integral to CCI's mission. The statewide initiative funds collaborative projects that reach across disciplines and geography to find new solutions. The Commonwealth Cyber Initiative funded 19 projects for a total of $1.9 million…
The National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) jointly sponsor the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense (CAE-CD) program. The goal of the program is to reduce vulnerability in our nation…
The Commonwealth Cyber Initiative’s xG Testbed supports research, experimentation, and prototyping of developing network and AI technologies. CCI researchers and our industry and government partners can work with the Testbed, which emphasiz…
Steve Rowson, professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the director of the Virginia Tech Helmet Lab, is the featured speaker at the recent Tech on Tap at Academic Building One in Alexandria. Rowson shares his research into
Current University Virginia Tech Joao Santos main research interests include radio resource management, radio virtualization, network slicing, network security, and end-to-end network orchestration. Santos, a research assistant professor, i…
Welcome to the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative and the Virginia Tech Research Center in Arlington for this first-of-a-kind event. CCI organized a meeting that brought together representatives from a number of embassies based in Washington DC
Submission Period Closed Oct. 6, 2025 CCI seeks proposals for seed research grants that advance the state of the art of critical infrastructure cybersecurity. We welcome applications from all researchers, including those researchers and ins…
Coastal Virginia Node Director | CCI Fellow | Old Dominion University AI security and privacy; privacy enhancing technologies; computation over encrypted data; and usable security and privacy. Takabi is director of ODU’s School of Cybersecu…
Op-ed piece for The Richmond Times-Dispatch by CCI Executive Director Luiz DaSilva, Feb. 28, 2025 The key to winning the AI race will not be the data centers or power grids that we can build — it will be the talent that we can develop. In a…
The Innovation Commercialization Assistance Program (ICAP) is a free, intensive startup assistance program targeting Virginia-based high-growth potential technology and innovation-driven ventures. ICAP, part of Virginia’s Small Business Dev…
Dan Woolley is the Founder and Managing Director of the Ponderosa Management Group. Over his nearly 50 years in the high-tech industry, he has cultivated lasting business relationships with globally complex organizations, created and execut…
The SWIFT (Spectrum and Wireless Innovation enabled by Future Technologies) award focuses on satellite-terrestrial coexistence on radio spectrum and optical wavelengths. Coexistence is when two or more applications use the same frequency ba…