House Homeland Security Chairman Green reintroduces cyber workforce scholarship-for-service bill

House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green (R-TN) is reintroducing a high-profile bill today to address the cyber workforce challenge through creating a cyber scholarship program where students can earn a two-year technical degree in exchange for fulfilling a government service requirement.

“With half a million vacant cybersecurity positions in the country, the threats facing our nation in cyberspace are far too urgent and sophisticated for our current cybersecurity workforce to combat,” Green said in a statement on the bill.

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