The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of West Florida have received grants of $2 million and $6 million, respectively, from the Department of Homeland Security and the National Security Agency, to tackle the challenge of filling public- and private-sector cybersecurity vacancies across the country. UIUC will “develop a plan that [the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency] can execute to build a national network of cybersecurity technical institutes.” UWF’s program “transitions veterans and first-responders into cybersecurity professionals qualified to shore up critical gaps in our nation’s critical infrastructure sectors.”
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