Notice of Funding Opportunity: Cybersecurity Education and Workforce Development Stakeholder Engagement Program

NIST is pleased to announce funding on behalf of the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE), for the NICE Stakeholder Engagement Program. NIST is soliciting applications from U.S.-located, non-Federal entities to assist NICE in its outreach efforts to the cybersecurity education, training, and workforce development community. NICE seeks to provide assistance to an organization engaged in building national (and exploring international) relationships to further advance outreach with a year-round communication strategy and capping that engagement by planning and holding the NICE Annual Conference in the continental United States for up to the next five years. See the full Notice of Funding Opportunity here. 

The deadline to apply is Tuesday, August 1, 2017, by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time. See the Grants.gov announcement and the full details of the Notice of Funding Opportunity for more information. For programmatic or technical questions, contact the NICE Program Office at nice.nist [at] nist.gov (nice[dot]nist[at]nist[dot]gov).

NIST held a webinar for interested applicants to provide general information regarding this grant, offer general guidance on preparing applications and answer questions on Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 2:00 pm ET.