NextGov: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of West Florida received a total of $8 million in separate grants from the Department of Homeland Security and the National Security Agency to tackle the enduring challenge of filling public- and private-sector cybersecurity vacancies across the country.
UIUC leads the Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute, one of 10 DHS centers of excellence focused on addressing homeland security challenges. On Friday, the department announced the institute received $2 million to “develop a plan that [the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency] can execute to build a national network of cybersecurity technical institutes.”
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