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Obama Wants You to Join the CyberCorps Reserve!
Posted by:
eesh
()
Date: February 09, 2016 09:20PM
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/obama-wants-you-join-the-cybercorps-reserve-to-help-feds-get-their-act-together/
The Obama administration is asking for over $19 billion in spending scattered across the proposed 2017 budget and is making a number of immediate moves that require funding now—$3.1 billion for an Information Technology Modernization Fund and to pay a new Federal Chief Information Security Officer (with a salary of between $123,175 and $185,100 a year, Top Secret/SCI clearance required—apply by February 26 if interested).
But getting anything directed by a new Federal CISO to actually stick will require a culture change within government and actual internal proficiency in a field that the government has relied heavily upon contractors to provide over the past two decades. It will take an army. To that end, buried within the more than $19 billion in overall spending is something called the CyberCorps Reserve program: a scholarship program for cyber-warriors.
The $62 million educational fund is a sort of Reserve Officer Training Corps program for "for Americans who wish to obtain cybersecurity education and serve their country in the civilian Federal government." An extension of the already-established National Science Foundation's and Department of Homeland Security's CyberCorps Scholarship for Service program, students can get full scholarships and stipends for cybersecurity undergradute or graduate programs in exchange for an agreement to work for the feds for a period equal to the length of the scholarship.
Already got your degree? If you're a cybersecurity expert and you come to work for the government, under Obama's proposal, you'll get any federal student loans forgiven. Technically, the government already does this for anyone under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness plan--it's not clear whether the CNAP goes further than that program, which requires 10 years of service.
The funding will also be used to develop a "Cybersecurity Core Curriculum" to guarantee students who study cybersecurity graduate with the skills required by the federal government.
The Obama administration is asking for over $19 billion in spending scattered across the proposed 2017 budget and is making a number of immediate moves that require funding now—$3.1 billion for an Information Technology Modernization Fund and to pay a new Federal Chief Information Security Officer (with a salary of between $123,175 and $185,100 a year, Top Secret/SCI clearance required—apply by February 26 if interested).
But getting anything directed by a new Federal CISO to actually stick will require a culture change within government and actual internal proficiency in a field that the government has relied heavily upon contractors to provide over the past two decades. It will take an army. To that end, buried within the more than $19 billion in overall spending is something called the CyberCorps Reserve program: a scholarship program for cyber-warriors.
The $62 million educational fund is a sort of Reserve Officer Training Corps program for "for Americans who wish to obtain cybersecurity education and serve their country in the civilian Federal government." An extension of the already-established National Science Foundation's and Department of Homeland Security's CyberCorps Scholarship for Service program, students can get full scholarships and stipends for cybersecurity undergradute or graduate programs in exchange for an agreement to work for the feds for a period equal to the length of the scholarship.
Already got your degree? If you're a cybersecurity expert and you come to work for the government, under Obama's proposal, you'll get any federal student loans forgiven. Technically, the government already does this for anyone under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness plan--it's not clear whether the CNAP goes further than that program, which requires 10 years of service.
The funding will also be used to develop a "Cybersecurity Core Curriculum" to guarantee students who study cybersecurity graduate with the skills required by the federal government.
Re: Obama Wants You to Join the CyberCorps Reserve!
Posted by:
johnny ringo
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Date: February 09, 2016 09:55PM
Kind of a little late for the 20,000,000 who had their identity information, including fingerprints, compromised by the OPM hack.