To advance digital transformation, protect critical infrastructure, and drive economic growth in Southeast Texas by providing cutting-edge solutions, fostering talent development through education and work force training, and promoting collaboration among industry, academia, government, and community stake holders.
Strategic Goals
Through collaboration, CDAC will deliver the needed tools and workforce that enable energy, petrochemical and port industries to achieve safer, more resilient, and economically viable operations in both physical and virtual space.
CDAC will:
Provide data analytics and cybersecurity solutions to the energy, petrochemical and port industries in the region.
Develop Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) technologies, and threat detection and response techniques for industrial control systems.
Develop data analytics and cybersecurity education materials for college-level and continuing education in engineering, computer science, management information systems, and process operations.
Build the capacity of the workforce in industrial data analytics and cybersecurity.
Disseminate program results via seminars, workshops, publications, and stakeholder engagement.