{"id":21254,"date":"2024-01-03T13:59:04","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T18:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=21254"},"modified":"2024-01-03T13:59:05","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T18:59:05","slug":"sen-ossoffs-bill-to-upgrade-ft-eisenhowers-cyber-center-of-excellence-signed-into-law","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoffs-bill-to-upgrade-ft-eisenhowers-cyber-center-of-excellence-signed-into-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff\u2019s Bill to Upgrade Ft. Eisenhower\u2019s Cyber Center of Excellence Signed into Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Augusta, Ga<\/strong>. \u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff\u2019s bill authorizing upgrades to Fort Eisenhower\u2019s Cyber Center of Excellence was signed into law by President Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff\u2019s law authorizes construction of new classrooms at the Cyber Center of Excellence at Fort Eisenhower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To help address rapidly advancing cybersecurity threats, Sen. Ossoff\u2019s<em>&nbsp;Ft. Eisenhower Cyber Center Enhancement Act<\/em>&nbsp;now enables the construction of new classrooms for Ft. Eisenhower\u2019s Cyber Center of Excellence, which provides essential training to cyber, electronic warfare, and signal professionals in the U.S. Army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The law authorizes new funding for the Department of Defense to modernize Ft. Eisenhower\u2019s cyber center \u2014 enhancing the center\u2019s capabilities and upgrading classrooms to accommodate the country\u2019s growing cyber workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe world-class Cyber Center of Excellence is crucial to U.S. national security, and the Georgians who serve there are heroes who need the infrastructure, space and facilities necessary to do their jobs to maximum effectiveness,\u201d<strong>&nbsp;Sen. Ossoff said.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cThat\u2019s why I wrote and passed this law with bipartisan support to secure these upgrades for Ft. Eisenhower.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ft. Eisenhower\u2019s Cyber Center of Excellence is essential to our nation\u2019s national security. According to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/1372561\/cyber-attack-country-targets-prevention\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2022 study<\/a>, the United States is the most targeted country for cyberattacks worldwide, largely outpacing the next ranked country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff brought Republicans and Democrats together to pass his new bill through this year\u2019s&nbsp;<em>National Defense Authorization Act<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augusta, Ga. \u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff\u2019s bill authorizing upgrades to Fort Eisenhower\u2019s Cyber Center of Excellence was signed into law by President Biden. Sen. Ossoff\u2019s law authorizes construction of new classrooms at the Cyber Center of Excellence at Fort Eisenhower. To help address rapidly advancing cybersecurity threats, Sen. Ossoff\u2019s&nbsp;Ft. Eisenhower Cyber Center Enhancement Act&nbsp;now [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21254","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/21254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/21254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21256,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/21254\/revisions\/21256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}