Several FICS Research faculty -including Director Mark Tehranipoor, Yier Jin, Navid Asadi, Domenic Forte, Farimah Farahmandi, and Associate Director Kevin Butler- joined forces with Professor Waleed Khalil and other colleagues at OSU to form two new Centers of Excellence (COEs) sponsored by the Nimbis, Inc, a developer of collaborative cloud communities and Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), and Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL): The Center for enabling Cyber Defense in Analog and Mixed Signal Domain (CYAN) and the micro Electronics Security Training (MEST) Center.