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CyberCorps Adds AI Training as Congress Urges Higher Funding

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Summary

CyberCorps is adding AI-focused training for scholarship recipients as Congress pushes to expand scholarships and recommends $60 million–$70 million for FY2027, against a proposed $21.7 million budget.

Key points

  • The article says CyberCorps participants must now have an AI education background or plan to develop one.
  • The program’s AI training is intended to cover both using AI in cybersecurity operations and securing AI systems.
  • CyberCorps will support participating schools in providing AI training to students and instructors.
  • The article says the FY2027 budget request proposed $21.7 million for CyberCorps; a congressional funding report recommends $60 million–$70 million and more scholarships.
  • Congress appropriated $63 million for the program in FY2026 after a proposed funding cut, according to the article.
  • The article cites a Pentagon estimate that it needs 25,000 additional cyber experts.

Article Details

Event Type
Federal cybersecurity workforce program adaptation and funding dispute
Impact
CyberCorps is adding AI-focused training, including both using AI in cybersecurity operations and securing AI systems. The Trump administration requested $21.7 million for the program in both its 2026 and 2027 budgets; Congress appropriated $63 million for 2026 and its 2027 funding report recommended adding $60 million to $70 million and increasing scholarships. The article says the Pentagon estimates it needs 25,000 more cyber experts.

People

Jen EasterlyThe article cites her prior writing that cybersecurity is changing and that AI is a path forward; it identifies her as the former Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

Countries

United Statesproviding the federal government talented, security-vetted, and well-educated employees to defend the United States from cyberthreats.

Industries

CybersecurityCyberCorps: Scholarship for Service has spent 25 years building a pipeline of nearly 5,000 cybersecurity professionals for the federal workforce, and it is now being updated to prepare students for AI-driven threats.Governmentand stipends for their cybersecurity education in exchange for an obligation to serve the federal government after graduation.