On the recordJuly 27, 2017
Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of amendment No. 8 offered by Mr. Langevin to provide funding for the Department of Defense Cyber Scholarship Program. Our country is facing a severe shortage of trained cyber professionals, a shortage that includes about 10,000 cybersecurity experts in government alone, and estimated to be about 1 million shortages throughout our economy by 2019. We need to give young people the incentive to follow careers in cybersecurity to learn skills such as computer coding and ethical hacking. This amendment provides $10 million for scholarships for associate degrees at community colleges and assists with program execution from DOD and NSA. I cosponsored this amendment, and I want to thank Congressman Langevin for offering this important piece of legislation. I urge all my colleagues to support this amendment.
