'Hacking for Defense' at USM

University of Southern Mississippi professors Henry Jones and Daniel DeMott, along with mentors from the Defense Department, Homeland Security, and intelligence community, will show USM students how to innovate solutions quickly for national security issues as part of the course “Hacking for Defense (H4D),” which will be taught this summer. USM will be the only school in the Southeast, and one of a handful in the nation, to offer H4D. Jones and DeMott, VP of research at the office of technology development, will teach graduate and undergraduates how to combine the processes, developed on battlefields, with the Lean LaunchPad Methodology. LaunchPad was developed by experts at Stanford and in Silicon Valley of California, Jones told Hattiesburg Business Today. Study topics may include the use of facial recognition in crowds, defeating small unmanned aircraft systems, sensor-to-cloud encryption, and wearable sensors and apps for Navy divers. (Source: Hattiesburg Business Today 12/2018)