Sec. 101. Office of Cybersecurity Education and Awareness
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Subtitle C of title II of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( 6 U.S.C. 141 et seq. ) is amended by adding at the end the following new section: There shall be within the Department an Office of Cybersecurity Education and Awareness Branch (hereinafter in this section referred to as the Office ). The Office shall be responsible for carrying out the duties of the Office as directed by the Secretary. The Office shall also report to the Secretary the ongoing work of the Office. Further, the Office shall report on the statutory authority, Executive orders or agency directives that guide the work of the Office.
The Office shall report to the Secretary what additional authority is needed to fulfill the mission for the Office as outlined by the section. The Office shall also conduct research and make recommendations to the Secretary to the extent that the agency can effectively engage in the following: Recruiting, retaining, and sustaining the skills and knowledge of Information assurance, cybersecurity and computer security professionals in the Department of Homeland Security, hereinafter known as the Department .
Supporting kindergarten through grade 12 science and technology and computer and information safety education through grants, and training programs. Supporting postsecondary information assurance, cybersecurity and computer security programs that provide education that benefits the mission and objective of the Department regarding recruitment and retention of highly trained computing professionals who are work ready. Promoting public knowledge of computer and information security competitions to provide computer and information security competition administrators, participants, and sponsors with information necessary to further broader public participation in these activities.
Developing a guest lecturer program or part-time lecturer program comprised of information assurance, cybersecurity and computer security experts in the Federal Government, academia and private sector to support education of students at institutions of higher education who are pursuing degrees in computing science. Managing a Computer and Information Security Youth Training Pathway Program for secondary school and postsecondary school students to work in part-time or summer positions along with Federal agency computer and information security professionals.
Developing programs that increase the capacity of institutions defined in section 371 of the Higher Education Act of 1965— Historically Black Colleges and Universities; Professional and academic areas in which African-Americans are under represented; Hispanic-serving institutions; Native American colleges; and Rural Colleges and Universities. Conduct research and make recommendations to the Secretary on what the agency can do to increase participation of professional and academic under represented areas at minority institutions.
Providing support to the institutions of higher education described in subparagraphs
(A)through
(E)of paragraph
(7)to provide course work and education in computer and information security designed to raise the number and diversity of students in the field. The Office may use the institutions defined under section 371 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1067q ) minority-serving institutions are defined as follows: A part B institution (as defined in section 322 ( 20 U.S.C. 1061 )). A Hispanic-serving institution (as defined in section 502 ( 20 U.S.C. 1101a )). A Tribal College or University (as defined in section 316 ( 20 U.S.C. 1059 )). An Alaska Native-serving institution or a Native Hawaiian-serving institution (as defined in section 317(b) ( 20 U.S.C. 1059d(b) )). A Predominantly Black Institution (as defined in subsection (c)). An Asian-American and Native American Pacific Islander-serving institution (as defined in subsection (c)). A Native American-serving nontribal institution (as defined in subsection (c)). In this section: The term information assurance, cybersecurity and computer security program has the meaning given by the Secretary in consultation with the computing and information Security Post Secondary Education Working Group under the bill. The term K–12 may be defined by the Secretary in consultation with the K–12 Science and Technology Education Board of Advisors under section 105 of the Cyber Security Education and Federal Workforce Enhancement Act . The Secretary may define higher education institutions under this title using definitions found in section 371 of the Higher Education Act of 1965. The term professional and academic under represented areas means areas in which African-Americans, Hispanics, and women are under represented has the meaning given such term by the Secretary, who may consult with the Commissioner for Education Statistics and the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The basis of the determining the means should be based on most recent available satisfactory data, as computing and information security professional and academic areas in which the percentage of African-Americans, Hispanics, and females who have been educated, trained, and employed is less than the percentage of African-Americans, Hispanics, and women in the general population. . The table of contents in section 1(b) of such Act is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 225 the following new item: Sec. 226. Office of Cybersecurity Education and Awareness. .
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