News in Brief
NSI is particularly excited to welcome Captain Jacob Shepherd, United States Army, as a Program Manager through the Hiring Our Heroes Corporate Fellowship Program.
Greg Furlich attended the IARPA REASON Proposer’s day in Washington DC to present on Aerospace Engineering Science Associate Professor Nisar Ahmed’s Collaborative Analyst Machine Perception (CAMP) research project.
NSI continues to develop CU’s participation in N3SP through support of the Designing For Defense (D4D) course on campus.
In October, in collaboration with the CU Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps (AFROTC), NSI hosted Col Marc Brock, Commander, United States Space Force Delta-2 Unit, which executes the Space Domain Awareness mission. Colonel Brock is one of two “champions” for CU in the Space Force University Partnership Program.
In November, NSI hosted leadership from U.S. Space Command’s Education & Training Division on campus to discuss educational partnership programs. As a result, CU has been formally accepted as a member of Space Command’s Academic Engagement Enterprise (AEE) program.
NSI was a founding member of the National Security Strategic Studies Partnership (N3SP), a collaboration between CU, the University of Colorado – Colorado Springs, and the United States Air Force Academy.
Also in November, NSI hosted a distinguished group of visitors, including Gen John Shaw (Vice Commander of U.S. Space Command), Dr. Ron Sega (former astronaut and former head of all Department of Defense Research & Engineering), leadership from industry (Lockheed-Martin, Ball, Raytheon, Northrop-Grumman), and Mr. Ted Harms (The Anschutz Foundation), in the Provost’s luxury box at the football game between the University of Colorado and the University of Oregon.