On the recordJune 16, 2015
I want to thank the gentleman from Florida and the gentlewoman from Alabama, both HPSCI colleagues, for their amendment, and I am happy to support it. This amendment furthers two important goals: first, to ensure that academic programs that should serve as a resource to the government--in this case, the National Science Foundation's CyberCorps Scholarship for Service--actually do result in a good number of students choosing employment within the intelligence community; and second, to deepen the bench of our cyber defenders. As a recent series of serious cyber breaches has demonstrated, it is an imperative for the protection of this Nation's workforce, privacy, and sensitive intelligence that we strengthen the IC's cyber cadre with our best and brightest. Mr. Chairman, this amendment is a fine addition to the gentleman's and the gentlewoman's other initiatives already represented in the bill, particularly those that advance diversity in the intelligence community. Again, Mr. Chairman, I want to thank my colleagues for their work. I urge support for this bipartisan amendment. I yield back the balance of my time.
