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January 2022

UTSA Selected as a Member of Newly Launched USCYBERCOM Academic Engagement Network

The UTSA National Security Collaboration Center has been selected to join the United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) Academic Engagement Network. USCYBERCOM is one of the eleven unified combatant commands of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), focused on cyberspace operations and capabilities, cyber expertise, and cyber warfare.

Learn more about the USCYBERCOM Academic Engagement Network

October 2021

CISA Leadership Visits UTSA National Security Collaboration Center

David Mussington, executive assistant director for infrastructure security for the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), met with UTSA leadership and researchers to explore the cyber landscape in the state of Texas while connecting with the talent and workforce in this space.

Learn more about the CISA Visit

July 2021

Government Leaders Visit UTSA's National Security Collaboration Center to Replicate Its Model of Success

Top government leaders from the U.S. Cyber Command’s Joint Force Headquarters-Department of Defense Information Network (JFHQ-DODIN) visited the National Security Collaboration Center in an effort to utilize the university as a model to guide it in developing collaborations similar to the NSCC with partners at its home base to further protect the nation from global security challenges.

Learn about NSCC collaboration

Advancing the National Interest

The nation’s acute challenges warrant tailored solutions to our present and future needs. Technical solutions and operational choices must fit seamlessly within the broader policy and regulatory context, which must evolve constructively to enable cutting-edge developments on which our prosperity and security depend.

The city of San Antonio features a large and vibrant government, industry, and academic ecosystem focused on an array of health, energy, and national security challenges. Our generational mission is to develop cost-effective, technically-informed, and policy-relevant solutions to meet them.

We exist to solve the most pressing issues of our time.

The National Security Collaboration Center (NSCC) at the University of Texas San Antonio fosters purpose-built public-private partnerships that convene government, industry, academia and other stakeholders to form credible non-partisan and multidisciplinary solutions. Our Tech Tank and Think Tank work together to magnify the university’s ability to conduct thoughtful and informed research that is responsive to the needs of the nation. We provide a balanced approach to identify public policy challenges, frame options, and generate actionable solutions to current and emerging priorities.

Tech-Informed Policy Assessment: Provide a policy-informed and technically grounded analytic foundation to evaluate, inform, and shape priorities in the national interest.

Policy-Informed Tech Development: Generate actionable solutions by understanding user needs, authorities, operational requirements, and resources.

graphic showing UTSA's Cyber Designations and the year it was awrded. Cyber Defense Eduction: 2002, Cyber Research: 2009,Cyber Operations: 2018

An Innovative Public-Private Partnership in the Heart of San Antonio

The National Security Collaboration Center’s extensive network is critical to solving key generational puzzles for San Antonio, the state of Texas, and the nation as a whole. Our approach sets us apart. We seek to put effective solutions into practice and bridge the gap between ideas and applications. Successful applied technology solutions must be situated effectively within policy, regulatory, and operational contexts. In turn, meaningful policy options require technical expertise and input from operational end users and a broadcast of stakeholders. When amplified through focused and purposeful collaborations – a unique and compelling hallmark of NSCC’s diverse ecosystem – new breakthroughs become possible.

The combined efforts of our ecosystem, Tech Tank, and Think Tank drive mission-oriented, policy-informed, technically grounded, and purpose-built options and solutions. The NSCC is something unique, built in San Antonio for the benefit of Texas and the nation as a whole.

UTSA is building the university of the future in the city of the future.