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L-3 Communications and Virginia Tech are opening a new cybersecurity research center at the company’s Arlington, Va.-based research center, the Washington Post reports.
According to Marjorie Censer, the center will occupy 7 floors within Virginia Tech’s Ballston research center and function as a point of convergence between L-3 personnel and Virginia Tech’s faculty and student body.
Les Rose, president of L-3’s national security solutions group, told Censer the partnership will concentrate on big data and mobile security research.
Teachers and students can participate in cybersecurity research while L-3 personnel can use Virginia Tech’s laboratories, according to the report.
Charles Clancy, head of Virginia Tech’s Ted and Karyn Hume Center for National Security and Technology, said students and personnel will have the opportunity to acquire more experience through the collaboration.
