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Department of War Cyber Service Academy (DoW CSA)

Washington Headquarters Services · Opportunity HQ003425NFOEASD03

Deadline January 22, 2030 1231 days left
Award range $50k – $20M
Total program funding

≈ 75 awards expected

PostedJanuary 23, 2025

Who can apply

Please see Section C of the Notice of Funding Opportunity (under the "Related Documents" tab) for complete eligibility requirements.

About this opportunity

See the "Related Documents" and "Package" tabs for the complete application package, including the full text of the Notice of Funding Opportunity.The Department of War (DoW) Cyber Service Academy (CSA) is authorized by Chapter 112 of Title 10, United States Code, Section 2200. The purpose of the program is to support the recruitment of new cyber talent and the retention of current highly skilled professionals within the DoW cyber workforce. Additionally, this program serves to enhance the national pipeline for the development of cyber personnel by providing grants to institutions of higher education.Regionally and nationally accredited U.S. institutions of higher education, designated under the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE-C) and known as National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense, Research, and/or Cyber Operations (hereinafter referred to as designated institutions) are invited to submit proposals for developing and managing a full-time, institution-based, grant-funded scholarship program in cyber-related disciplines for Academic Year 2026-2027.Consistent with 10 U.S.C. 2200b, proposals to this solicitation may also request modest collateral support for purposes of institutional capacity building to include faculty development, laboratory improvements, and/or curriculum development, in cyber-related topics to providing a strong foundation for a DoW CSA.

Award history — Information Security Grants (Assistance Listing 12.902)

This program made 63 new awards in FY2025.

New awards by fiscal year ’21: 0 · ’22: 0 · ’23: 0 · ’24: 66 · ’25: 63
Award size (min / median / max) $5k / $162k / $2.4M

Across the 128 most recent awards. Total obligations, not per-year.

Repeat winners 52 of 77 recipients won more than once

New awards recorded on USAspending.gov under the federal program that funds this opportunity. FY2025 figures may still be incomplete. Washington Headquarters Services does not publish how many applications it receives, so a true success rate cannot be computed for this program — no one can honestly sell you that number.

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