"Cybersecurity Project Plans to Connect Researchers Across the Country"

As technology advances, the manufacturing industry increasingly adapts to digital instruction, from the production of fighter jets to cars. Mechanical parts can be designed on a computer and sent via the network to a manufacturing machine that follows digital instructions to create a part. The transition into the digital realm makes protecting online information a national interest. Recently, Dr. Narasimha Reddy, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to explore cybersecurity issues in digital manufacturing. He hopes that by getting ahead of the implementation of these digital manufacturing machines and addressing cybersecurity issues, manufacturing could be made more secure. Since these machines must receive instructions over the network, they could be sent malicious packets that cause damage. When a company uses modern manufacturing processes to produce parts for fighter jets, there is a risk that someone will compromise their network security. If these jets contain faulty equipment, there is a national security problem. This article continues to discuss the research aimed at making digital manufacturing more secure. 

Texas A&M University reports "Cybersecurity Project Plans to Connect Researchers Across the Country"