Cybersecurity expert Dr. Ray Vaughn, the vice president for research at UAH, will speak Tuesday, July 8, on "Industrial Control Systems Insecurity" at the Rocket City Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) luncheon. Luncheon check-in begins at 11 a.m. at the Holiday Inn Research Park, with the program start at 11:30 a.m. and presentation at 12:05 p.m. Dr. Vaughn joined UAH's administration after serving as the associate vice president for research at Mississippi State University. Since arriving at UAH, a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education, Dr. Vaughn has been working to establish full scholarships to study Cybersecurity that are expected to be funded by the National Science Foundation's Scholarship for Service program. While at Mississippi State, in 1997 Dr. Vaughn founded and directed the Critical Infrastructure Protection Center there. The center was supported by the Department of Homeland Security as an outreach effort to operators of the nation's critical infrastructure. The center supported training activities and research, which is primarily focused in the area of industrial control system security.