Assistance program
GenCyber Grants Program
$12.1 Million committed in FY2025–FY2026
- Agency
- National Security Agency (Nsa), Dept of Defense
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 12.903
- What it does
- The GenCyber Program provides summer cybersecurity camp experiences for students and teachers at the Secondary level. The goals of the GenCyber program are to: - Ignite, sustain, and increase awareness of Secondary cybersecurity content and cybersecurity postsecondary and career opportunities for participants through year-round engagement; - Increase student diversity in cybersecurity college and career readiness pathways at the Secondary level; and - Facilitate teacher readiness within a teacher learning community to learn, develop, and deliver cybersecurity content for the Secondary classroom in collaboration with other nationwide initiatives. To ensure a level playing field, GenCyber camps are open to all student and teacher participants at no cost.
- Who benefits
- Must be a U.S. college or University, a public or private school or school system, or a not-for-profit when partnered with an academic institution. The principal investigator and program staff must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents of the United States. Program eligibility will be determined under the GenCyber Program.
- Who applies
- Must be a designated National Center of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (CAE) to apply for a coalition grant. CAEs will lead a coalition of partners to carry out the camps program. Not-for-profits may partner with the CAE to potentially receive grant funding. The principal investigator and program staff must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents of the United States. Program eligibility will be determined under the GenCyber Program. Additional requirements will be identified in the annual solicitation.
- Authorized by
- 10 U.S.C. § 2192(b)
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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