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Grant to Help University Mold Quantum Cyber Workforce
Much like artificial intelligence today, as quantum computing advances, it will create new cybersecurity challenges that will require a workforce trained to protect critical systems and infrastructure.
Grants Awarded to Develop Cyber Workforce
In an effort to build the workforce needed to protect the nation’s infrastructure and organizations from cybersecurity threats, nine different organizations earned a series of educational grants.
Security Training Partnership Down Under
It is no secret there is a shortage of cybersecurity professionals across the globe and more companies, schools and universities and governments are all trying to engage more folks to jump into the profession.
University Gains Cyber-AI Workforce Development Award
University of West Florida (UWF) Center for Cybersecurity and AI (CCAI) received a $1.74 million award to prepare the next generation of professionals to address emerging challenges at the intersection of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity.
Teachers Teaching Teachers to Build a Cyber Workforce
There is a plan in development that will train high school teachers across the country to teach quantum information science and cybersecurity to their students.
Ground Broken for Critical Infrastructure Security Site
Two years ago in 2024, Texas Tech University established an institute dedicated to examining vulnerabilities in the critical infrastructure of the U.S. and develop methods to clarify and mediate those vulnerabilities.
University, INL Sign SUPER Pact
Utah State University and Battelle Energy Alliance inked a memorandum of understanding for a Strategic Understanding for Premier Education and Research (SUPER) agreement, formalizing and expanding the university’s collaboration with Battelle’s parent organization, Idaho National Laboratory (INL).
Funding Boosts LSU Cybersecurity Clinic
LSU Cybersecurity Clinic is now bringing free education and evaluation services to Louisiana industry and government clients, which is a major program expansion that will protect critical infrastructure across the state, from water treatment facilities to oil wells and chemical plants.
Universities Win Awards for Security Outreach
For the second year in a row, the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS) came in first place in the 2025 CAE-CD Community Outreach Award Competition.
NSA Cyber Designation for MI University
Midland, Michigan-based Northwood University gained designation as a National Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) in Cybersecurity by the National Security Agency (NSA).
University Earns NSA Cyber Defense Designation
Cal State Fullerton (CSUF) earned a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense education designation as it prepares and trains qualified cybersecurity professionals.
University Opens Industry Cyber Learning Center
Full Sail University is opening the “Full Sail University IBM Cyber Defense Range powered by AWS and Cloud Range.”
Sandia’s Cybersecurity Residency Program
Everyone knows there is a shortage of qualified cybersecurity professionals and one way to help fill that void is a cybersecurity residency program at Sandia National Laboratories.
Two Awarded for Oil-Spill Forensics Advances
Two chemical oceanographers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) earned the 2026 Lifetime Scientific Achievement Award by the International Symposium on Comprehensive Multidimensional Chromatography for their efforts in revolutionizing oil-spill forensics.
Cyber Interns Grow OT Capabilities
Without even knowing it at the beginning, James Dawson and Andrew Bonilla turned into a dream team for the Idaho National Laboratory’s (INL) Cybercore Integration Center.
Manufacturing Apprenticeship Program Launches
The American Manufacturing Apprenticeship Inventive Fund just launched, designed through a cooperative agreement with Arkansas, to support the expansion of advanced manufacturing registered apprenticeships nationwide.
University Gains AI Cybersecurity Specialization Approval
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the future and that means colleges and universities are jumping at the chance to take advantage of the opportunities for students in the future.
Huge Grant for University Cyber Center
University of West Florida Center for Cybersecurity earned a $9.6 million grant from the Department of War (DoW) CIO Cyber Academic Engagement Office to expand the National Cybersecurity Workforce Development program.
Anti-Phishing Plan Earns NSF Grant
Designing phishing detectors was one of three grants researchers at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, received from the National Science Foundation CAREER awards.
Cyber Grant Boosts Services, Trains Students
In an effort to support a pioneering program that provides low- and no-cost cybersecurity services to organizations in need, the Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security (CIAS) at The University of Texas at San Antonio received a $100,000 grant from Craig Newmark Philanthropies.