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GAO-10-170R 1 (2009-12-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaanqr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AGA 0 Accountabilty I Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 December 18, 2009 The Honorable Daniel K. Akaka Chairman The Honorable Richard Burr Ranking Member Committee on Veterans' Affairs United States Senate The Honorable Bob Filner Chairman The Honorable Steve Buyer Ranking Member Committee on Veterans' Affairs House of Representatives Subject: Department of Veterans Affairs' Implementation of Information Security Education Assistance Program The Veterans Benefits, Health Care, and Information Technology Act of 2006 authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish an educational assistance program for information security.' The Information Security Education Assistance Program is envisioned as a means for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to attract and retain individuals with advanced skills in information security. The legislation authorizes the agency to establish scholarships for qualified students who pursue doctoral degrees in computer science and electrical and computer engineering at accredited institutions and to offer educational debt reduction for VA employees who hold doctoral degrees in these fields. This letter responds to the act's requirement that we report on the scholarship and education debt reduction programs within 3 years of the act's December 22, 2006, enactment.2 As agreed with your offices, our objective was to determine the status of VA's implementation of the program. To accomplish this objective, we analyzed section 903 of the act, the status of the draft regulations governing the program, and the agency's 'Pub. L. No. 109-461, § 903, 120 Stat. 3403, 3460 (Dec. 22, 2006), adding a new Chapter 79, Information Security Education Assistance Program, to Title 38 of the U.S. Code. This program is part of Title IX of the act known as the Department of Veterans Affairs Information Security Enhancement Act of 2006. 2Pub. L. No. 109-461, § 903(b), 120 Stat. 3464. GAO-10-170R Information Security Education Assistance Program Page I

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