Senators urge against shuttering of National Defense University's cyber college

FedScoop: A bipartisan group of senators has asked the Department of Defense to reconsider consolidating or closing its College of Information and Cyberspace.

Part of the National Defense University, the College of Information and Cyberspace was developed to “prepare information leaders to play critical roles in national security in the Information Age.” But now, nearly 40 years after the institution’s founding, the DOD is considering walking it back at a time when there’s an “ever-increasing reliance on technology in warfare,”  the senators write in a letter to Secretary Mark Esper and his deputy, David Norquist.

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