Still thinking about project ideas, narrowed topic fields to the following:

• Counter intelligence
• Artificial Intelligence
• Programming
• Basic Electronics
• Hacking Framework
• Military Communications

Still need to think of an idea and come up with an interesting research question.

Update 2:

limited possible idea down to programming and hacking to try and think of an idea faster. also nothing to do with IDS/IPS’s.

Ive been looking through a lot of online forums and spoken to a lot of popular netsec redditors to help me with ideas. My ideal project would be able to make something that the community could use, or at the least advance a particular technology. Not just something that will be forgotten after the deadline.