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Cybersecurity Education and Training Assistance Program (CETAP)
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Section 2220 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (codified as amended at 6 U.S.C. § 665f) establishes the CETAP within CISA. The statutory purpose of CETAP is to support CISA’s efforts in building and strengthening a national cybersecurity workforce pipeline capacity through enabling elementary and secondary cybersecurity education. This includes providing foundational cybersecurity awareness and literacy, encouraging cybersecurity career exploration, and supporting the teaching of cybersecurity skills at the elementary and secondary education levels. To fund such cybersecurity and infrastructure security education and training programs and initiatives, Section 2220 authorizes CISA to provide financial assistance to non-federal entities to carry out the statutory CETAP purposes and enhance CETAP to address the national shortfall of cybersecurity professionals. CISA awards financial assistance under the CETAP through cooperative agreements with non-profit organizations to develop cybersecurity curriculum and professional development opportunities for K-12 students, educators, administrators, and student caregivers and conduct outreach to increase cybersecurity awareness within that K-12 community. The objectives of CETAP financial assistance are to: (1) create cyber training pathways for K-12 students and educators by providing an adaptable cybersecurity curricular model; (2) promote awareness of national cybersecurity education opportunities; (3) develop partnerships and increase stakeholder engagement to maximize outreach efforts and the impact of cybersecurity education across the K-12 community; and (4) increase awareness of all CETAP tools and resources.
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In the FY16 grant period, NICERC will continue to update the curricula, as well as develop new curricular offerings to include cyber-infused high school mathematics. The intent is to integrate cyber concepts into early high school-level mathematics material, while ensuring a logical flow of the course topics to engage the students and support their understanding of both mathematical and cyber concepts.
NICERC projects training approximately 2500 new teachers in the next grant period, with a combined total of approximately 4,150 teachers and 520,000 students affected overall. In the FY16 grant period, NICERC continued evaluating the curricula for relevant application, as well as made significant progress in the develop of a new curricular offerings to include cyber-infused high school mathematics. The intent is to integrate cyber concepts into early high school-level mathematics material, while ensuring a logical flow of the course topics to engage the students and support their understanding of both mathematical and cyber concepts. In addition to the mathematics course, NICERC has begun working to build Cyber Society, a liberal arts course, as a full year-long course.
By the end of FY16 grant, NICERC projects training 2,577 new teachers, with a combined total of 4,150 teachers and 676,842 students affected overall.
In the FY17 grant period, NICERC will continue to update the curricula to ensure curricular learning platforms are applicable to the workforce demands, as well as provide educators with the depth and breadth needed to ensure student understanding of cyber knowledge, skills, and abilities. A new learning platform will be added to the Cyber Literacy, Cyber Literacy 2, and Cyber Science courses to allow maximum versatility within the classroom.
NICERC projects training approximately 3000 new teachers in the next grant period, with a combined total of approximately 4,650 teachers and over 1,000,000 students affected overall.
If funding levels continue, NICERC projects training approximately a greater number of new teachers in the next grant period compounding the number of students affected overall.
CETAP has 18,487 teachers accessing the teacher resources and has trained 1,796 educators either face-to-face or virtually.
Cybersecurity Education and Training Assistance Program (CETAP) significantly increased virtual training opportunities for teachers through self-paced and facilitated trainings. CETAP had 25,000 teachers accessing the teacher resources during the year as well as trained a total of 2,700 teachers.
Cybersecurity Education and Training Program (CETAP) saw significant increases in teachers accessing the curriculum as well as professional development workshops. By the end of FY21 (Sept. 2021), CETAP impacted 23,872 educators through curricula access and trained 17,890 teachers over the lifespan of the award. Major projects include multiple state-wide adoptions of CYBER.ORG’s cybersecurity standards as well as major advancements in its HBCU feeder and students with disabilities program.
NTTP: The Cybersecurity Workforce Development and Training Pilot for Underserved Communities identified two non-traditional technical training providers to develop curricula, a virtual or hybrid in-person training hub, and an entry-level skilled apprenticeship program for underserved populations: NPower and CyberWarrior.
FY2022: The Cybersecurity Education and Training Assistance Program (CETAP) will continue to see significant increases and building off of previous years successes. By the end of FY22, CETAP impacted nearly 30,000 educators through curricula access and have trained just shy of 24,000 teachers over the lifespan of the grant. Major projects include expansion of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) feeder program (Project REACH) to 10 HBCUs across the country with approximately 30 high schools participating in the program.
FY2022: The Cybersecurity Workforce Development and Training for Underserved Communities (NTTP) pilot program will continue to see significant development of curricula, a virtual or hybrid in-person training hub, and an entry-level skilled apprenticeship program for underserved populations. The non-traditional technical training providers (NTTPs) have approved Cybersecurity Pathways Retention Strategies that are used to track performance measures, to include identifying goals for reaching the target population over the lifespan of the cooperative agreement. During the first year of the cooperative agreement, the NTTPs enrolled, roughly, 116 individuals into training activities. Through CyberWarrior’s 28-week training course and NPower’s 18-week training course, 77 individuals have graduated and received certifications ranging from A+ to Security+. Of those graduates, 30 have obtained employment in cyber fields.
CISA awarded a single CETAP cooperative agreement with a 5-year period of performance from September 29, 2023, to September 29, 2028. As CISA made the award at the end of FY 2023, the recipient did not have any significant accomplishments in FY 2023. CISA previously awarded a CETAP cooperative agreement in FY 2018 with a 5-year period of performance from September 29, 2018, to September 29, 2023. In the final 1-year budget period of this award, the recipient, CYBER.ORG launched a no-cost Cyber Range that includes free access and content to all educators in U.S. States and Territories. Additionally, on June 1, 2023, CYBER.ORG released three full academic year courses titled “Intro to Cybersecurity,” “Networking,” and “Cybersecurity Grades 9-12” that incorporates hands-on labs that could be completed using the Cyber Range .
The estimated accomplishments of the recipient during the first year of the period of performance of the cooperative agreement that CISA awarded in FY 2023 include:
CISA projects issuing continuation funding of up to $6.8 million for the cooperative agreement’s second 1-year budget period for the period of September 30, 2024, to September 29, 2025.
The estimated accomplishments of the recipient during the second year of the period of performance of the cooperative agreement that CISA awarded in FY 2023 include:
Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
