Cyber Corps funding boosted

[InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>]

Forwarded from: William Knowles <wk () c4i org>

http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0812/web-cyber-08-14-02.asp

By Colleen O'Hara 
Aug. 14, 2002

The government's Scholarship for Service program is getting an 
infusion of new money, thanks to the supplemental funding bill signed 
by President Bush Aug. 2.

The supplemental included $19.3 million for the program, which offers 
scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students studying 
information assurance in exchange for two years of government service 
in the federal Cyber Corps. The program also funds capacity building 
programs.

About $8 million of the $19.3 million will go toward expanding the 
program to four new schools, said Ernest McDuffie, program director 
for the Scholarship for Service program at the National Science 
Foundation, which runs the program.

The four schools, which have not yet been named, will be added to the 
11 institutions that now participate in the scholarship program. They 
will be chosen from a list of "highly ranked proposals" that have been 
submitted but were not previously funded because of lack of money, 
McDuffie said.

The remaining money will be used to help the schools already involved 
in the scholarship program increase the number of students that can 
participate, McDuffie said. 

The extra funding will help double the size of the scholarship 
program, from more than 100 students within the next six months to 200 
to 300 students within the next two to three years, McDuffie said. 

Preston Gillmore, a Scholarship for Service graduate student at the 
University of Tulsa, said the plan to expand the program is a wise one 
because "there are not enough trained network security professionals 
available for either the public or private sectors."

However, program officials should "allow the schools to continue to 
expand their programs to create more information assurance instructors 
and to adequately compensate their existing instructors," so that the 
program can handle the increase in students, he said. 
 

 
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