Vice President Biden Announces $25 Million in Funding for Cybersecurity Education at HBCUs

Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, and White House Science Advisor John Holdren are announcing that the Department of Energy will provide a $25 million grant over the next five years to support cybersecurity education.

The grant will support the creation of a new cybersecurity consortium consisting of 13 Historically Black Colleges and Universities, two national labs, and a k-12 school district. The announcement builds on President Barack Obama's proposals on cybersecurity, focusing on the critical need to fill the growing demand for skilled cybersecurity professionals in the US job market, while also diversifying the pipeline of talent in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.