Lunarline, Inc. announced they will continue their partnership with the University of Maryland establishing collaborative activities in cyber security for a second year. The partnership promotes cyber security education, research, and technology development through the Maryland Cyber security Center. UMD and Lunarline plan to leverage each other's resources, expertise, and unique perspectives to develop innovative cyber security expertise and technology solutions. MC2 is forging alliances and partnerships between academia, industry and government to deliver advanced educational programs that will prepare the cyber security workforce. UMD researchers are applying their expertise in a number of critical cyber security fields, including, secure software, supply chain risk management, wireless and network security, attacker behavioral analysis, and the economics of cyber security. MC2 stresses comprehensive solutions to cyber security education, research, and technology development by bringing together experts from computer science, engineering, social sciences, economics and public policy to establish interdisciplinary cyber security initiatives. Lunarline provides cyber security and privacy products, specialized services, and certified training to both the US Federal Government and private industry companies and is dedicated to promoting the advancement of cyber security.

University of Maryland and ManTech International Corporation announced a two-year partnership to pursue advanced research in cyber security, including systems engineering and full spectrum computer network operations. Maryland and ManTech will engage students and faculty in a comprehensive research effort that explores ways to apply advanced cyber security techniques to evolving technologies associated with cloud computing and other developing trends, as well as emerging threats. ManTech's participation in the Maryland Cyber security Center (MC2) corporate partners program will provide four undergraduate ManTech Cyber security scholarships each year. MC2 is jointly supported by Maryland's College of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences (CMNS) and the A. James Clark School of Engineering. ISR is a permanent institute of the A. James Clark School of Engineering.

University of Maryland announced that Tripti Sinha has been named executive director of Mid-Atlantic Crossroads. Sinha will also continue in her current roles as the deputy chief information officer for networks and communication technologies within the Division of Information Technology at the University of Maryland and as chairwoman of the Maryland Research and Education Network board. Sinha has served in a variety of technical leadership positions within the University of Maryland since 1990.