A key recommendation of the widely well-regarded Cyberspace Solarium Commission is to diversify and strengthen the federal cyberspace workforce. In service of this, commissioners make an “enabling recommendation” of improving cyber-oriented education, and a key stakeholder would like more work to be done to track the connection.
“This is where we have to lean on what we're asking of the [Centers for Academic Excellence] as a deliverable,” Kevin Nolten, executive director of the National Integrated Cyber Education Resource Center, told Nextgov.
CAEs are higher education institutions that may be eligible for funding from institutions such as the National Science Foundation if subject matter experts validate their degree programs include a certain number of “cybersecurity-related knowledge units.”
The Solarium Commission’s report calls for Congress to expand the cyber defense-focused CAE program “to encourage cyber coursework in fields such as business, law, and health care.”
To fill the 300,000-person gap in the cyber workforce, the commissioners also recommend Congress increase funding for the CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service program, standardize tools such as the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education’s cybersecurity framework, and explore ways to expand programs such as the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Cybersecurity Education Training Assistance Program on a national scale.
NICERC has been the sole recipient of the CETAP grant, initiated in 2012. The $4.3 million per year award, which puts cyber curriculums in ..
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