SEC. 4. STUDENT LOAN REPAYMENT FOR CERTAIN CYBER-
SECURITY EMPLOYEES. 
Section 455 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 
U.S.C. 1087e) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(r) LOAN REPAYMENT FOR CYBERSECURITY WORK-
ERS IN ECONOMICALLY DISTRESSED AREA.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall cancel 
the amount described in paragraph (2) of the bal-
ance of interest and principal due, in accordance 
with such paragraph, on any eligible Federal Direct 
Loan not in default for a borrower who— 
‘‘(A) makes 36 consecutive monthly pay-
ments on the eligible Federal Direct Loan after 
the date of the enactment of this section pursu-
ant to any one or a combination of the fol-
lowing— 
‘‘(i) payments under an income-based 
repayment plan under section 493C; 
‘‘(ii) payments under a standard re-
payment plan under subsection (d)(1)(A), 
based on a 10-year repayment period; 
‘‘(iii) monthly payments under a re-
payment plan under subsection (d)(1) or 
(g) of not less than the monthly amount 
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calculated 
under 
subsection 
(d)(1)(A), 
based on a 10-year repayment period; or 
‘‘(iv) payments under an income con-
tingent repayment plan under subsection 
(d)(1)(D); and 
‘‘(B) during the period in which the bor-
rower makes each of the 36 consecutive month-
ly payments described in subparagraph (A), has 
been employed in a cybersecurity job— 
‘‘(i) located in an area that, for at 
least 12 of such consecutive monthly pay-
ments is an economically distressed area; 
and 
‘‘(ii) that requires that the borrower 
work in the economically distressed area no 
less than 60 percent of total work hours. 
‘‘(2) CANCELLATION AMOUNT.—After the con-
clusion of the employment period described in para-
graph (1), the Secretary shall cancel the lesser of 
the following: 
‘‘(A) The obligation to repay the balance of 
principal and interest due as of the time of such 
cancellation, on the eligible Federal Direct 
Loans made to the borrower under this part. 
‘‘(B) $25,000. 
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‘‘(3) INELIGIBILITY OF DOUBLE BENEFITS.— 
No borrower may, for the same service, receive a re-
duction of loan obligations under both this sub-
section and— 
‘‘(A) subsection (m); or 
‘‘(B) section 428J, 428K, 428L, or 460. 
‘‘(4) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(A) CYBERSECURITY JOB.—The term ‘cy-
bersecurity job’ means— 
‘‘(i) a skill role as defined in the 
NCWF Work Roles by the National Initia-
tive for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) 
Cybersecurity 
Workforce 
Framework 
(NCWF) of the National Institute of 
Standards and Technology, Special Publi-
cation 800–181, or any successor docu-
ment; or 
‘‘(ii) teaching a cybersecurity course 
for a skill role described in clause (i). 
‘‘(B) ECONOMICALLY DISTRESSED AREA.— 
The term ‘economically distressed area’ means 
an area that meets one or more criteria under 
section 301(a) of the Public Works and Eco-
nomic Development Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 
3161(a)).’’. 
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SEC. 5. CYBERCORPS SCHOLARSHIP-FOR-SERVICE PRO-
GRAM. 
(a) FUNDING INCREASE.—It is the sense of the Con-
gress that the number of scholarships awarded by the Na-
tional Science Foundation for scholarships awarded under 
the Federal cyber scholarship-for-service program estab-
lished by section 302 of the Cybersecurity Enhancement 
Act of 2014 for fiscal year 2018 and each succeeding fiscal 
year should be not less than double the number of such 
scholarships awarded for fiscal year 2017. 
(b) CYBERSECURITY COURSE INSTRUCTION.—Sec-
tion 302 of the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014 
(15 U.S.C. 7442) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘and security 
managers’’ and inserting ‘‘security managers, and 
cybersecurity course instructors,’’; and 
(2) in subsection (d), by adding at the end the 
following: ‘‘Such work may include teaching a cyber-
security course for a skill role as defined in the 
NCWF Work Roles by the National Initiative for 
Cybersecurity 
Education 
(NICE) 
Cybersecurity 
Workforce Framework (NCWF) of the National In-
stitute of Standards and Technology, Special Publi-
cation 800–181, or any successor document.’’. 
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(c) ELIMINATION OF PRIORITY FOR FEDERAL GOV-
ERNMENT EMPLOYMENT PLACEMENTS.—Section 302(b) 
of such Act (15 U.S.C. 7442(b)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1), by adding ‘‘and’’ at the 
end; 
(2) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘; and’’ and 
inserting a period; and 
(3) by striking paragraph (3). 
SEC. 6. INCREASED FUNDING FOR ADVANCED TECH-
NOLOGY EDUCATION PROGRAM. 
It is the sense of the Congress that the amount ex-
pended for the Information Technology and Cybersecurity 
Division of the Advanced Technological Education pro-
gram of the National Science Foundation established by 
section 3(a) of the Scientific and Advanced-Technology 
Act of 1992 (Public Law 102–476) for fiscal year 2018 
should be an amount equal to not less than 110 percent 
of the amount expended for such division for fiscal year 
2017. 
SEC. 7. CYBERSECURITY TRAINING INCENTIVE FOR GOV-
ERNMENT CONTRACTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subpart 15.3 of the Federal Ac-
quisition Regulation shall be revised to require, in the eval-
uation of a competitive proposal received in response to 
a solicitation for a contract valued in excess of 
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$5,000,000, that the head of an executive agency award 
a five percent score increase to each competitive proposal 
submitted by a qualified offeror. 
(b) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) EXECUTIVE AGENCY.—The term ‘‘executive 
agency’’ has the meaning given that term in section 
102 of title 40, United States Code. 
(2) QUALIFIED OFFEROR.—The term ‘‘qualified 
offeror’’ means a business that has claimed the em-
ployee cybersecurity education credit under section 
45S of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as added 
by section 3, at least once within the three-year pe-
riod preceding the date on which the business sub-
mits a competitive proposal for a contract valued in 
excess of $5,000,000. 
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