Executive Advisory Committee

Dr. Louise M. Davidson
Chief Engineer, Computer Security Division & Chief, Certification and Accreditation
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
Dr. Stephen Kent
Chief Scientist for Information Security
BBN Technologies
Dr. Madhav Marathe
Professor and Deputy Director of Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute and Dept. of Computer Science
Virginia Tech
Dr. Nicholas Multari
Senior Manager, Information Assurance R&D
Network Centric Operations Thrust
Boeing Phantom Works
Dr. Daniel Reed
Director, Institute for Renaissance Computing
The University of North Carolina
Dane Skow
TeraGrid Grid Infrastructure Group
Argonne National Laboratory

Administrative Contacts

National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Room 1008 NCSA Building
1205 W. Clark Street
Urbana, IL 61801
MC-257
ph: (217) 244-2169
fax: (217) 244-8195
Principal Investigator and Project Co-Director
Randy Butler
NCSA Cyberenvironments and Technologies
rbutler@ncsa.uiuc.edu
ph: (217) 244-8285
fax: (217) 244-8195
Project Co-Director
Von Welch
NCSA Security Research
vwelch@ncsa.uiuc.edu
ph: (217) 265-7139
fax: (217) 244-8195
Project Manager
Mike Freemon
NCSA Middleware
mfreemon@ncsa.uiuc.edu
ph: (217) 244-7503
fax: (217) 244-8195
Project Administrative Assistant
Patty Kobel
NCSA Director's Office
pkobel@ncsa.uiuc.edu
ph: (217) 244-2169
fax: (217) 244-8195
Research Editor/Webmaster
Kathleen Ricker
NCSA Public Affairs
kricker@ncsa.uiuc.edu
ph: (217) 244-3351
fax: (217) 244-8195
Business Office
Jeff Gaede
NCSA Finance
jgaede@ncsa.uiuc.edu
ph: (217) 265-0599
fax: (217) 244-8195
NCSA Executive Director
Danny Powell
NCSA Director's Office
danny@ncsa.uiuc.edu
ph: (217)244-0633
fax: (217) 244-8195
PNNL Site Lead -- Wayne Meitzler
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
P.O. Box 999
902 Battelle Blvd.
Richland, WA 99352
ph: (509)375-3718
fax: (509) 372-4837
NPS Site Lead -- Cynthia Irvine
Department of Computer Science
SP 512 Code CS/IC
Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, CA 93943
ph: (831) 656-2461
fax: (831) 656-2814


The National Center for Advanced Secure Systems Research NCASSR) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is a multi-institutional cybersecurity research team. NCASSR focuses basic and applied research necessary to develop next generation information security technologies that address national cybersecurity needs. NCASSR is led by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and supported by funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR).


SELS 0.7 released
Secure Email List Services (SELS) is an open source software for creating and developing secure email list services among user communities.
 
Strong community engagement strengthens cybersecurity research and development
NCASSR-supported exploratory research at NCSA and elsewhere has sparked additional external funding and development opportunities as well as successful deployment and adoption by users ranging from the defense sector to state law enforcement to the utilities industry.
 
NCASSR Collaborator Goes To Washington
Carl Gunter, a professor in the University of Illinois Department of Computer Science and a project lead on NCASSR-supported work involving adaptive, secure messaging, recently spoke to an audience of congressional staffers and lobbyists on Capitol Hill regarding ways to address a variety of critical cybersecurity issues in areas such as healthcare and energy distribution.