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Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity Education and Training Assistance Program

Application Deadline: August 3, 2018

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity Education & Awareness Branch (CE&A) has announced that the Cybersecurity Education and Training Assistance Program (CETAP): Expansion of a Portable Cybersecurity Education Teacher-Focused Model grant notice is now open. The CETAP grant provides funding to develop and distribute K-12 cybersecurity, STEM, and computer science curricula to educators across the country. Additionally, the grant supports the development and implementation of engagement strategies to reach teachers and communities nation-wide to expand existing cybersecurity education programs. 

As background, CE&A manages programs to develop the highly-skilled cybersecurity professionals needed to secure the national cyber infrastructure and information systems. To that end, CE&A promotes cybersecurity training and awareness for elementary, middle, and high school aged students and their teachers. Increasing the number of graduates of cyber and STEM disciplines is an important element in the development of our national cybersecurity workforce.

Overall, the goals of the CETAP grant include:

1. Expand awareness of national cybersecurity education and workforce issues.
2. Encourage entry into cybersecurity academic programs and careers through hands-on, engaging, cybersecurity-integrated, and ready-to-use tools.
3. Provide a portable curricular model to aid in replication to all 50 States, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands.
4. Offer the means to measure the long-term effects of teacher training in the use of the proposed curricular solution and its impact on students, including the number of teachers who are trained, the number of students they instruct, the number of students that choose to pursue cybersecurity-related STEM disciplines and cybersecurity professions, and define and track other key metrics.
5. Develop and implement a comprehensive engagement strategy that enables DHS to reach an increasing number of K-12 stakeholders.

The funding opportunity number is PD-CTP-18-001 and can be found on grants.gov. For a quick reference, this link will take you to a pre-filtered search and from there you can click on the grant: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/search-grants.html?keywords=PD-CTP-18-001.

Eligible applicants include non-profits with 501(c)(3) status, other than institutions of higher education. All applications must be received by close of business on August 3, 2017.