{"id":252259,"date":"2026-05-21T19:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/state-it-officials-make-a-case-for-cyber-grant-reauthorization-before-house-subcommittee\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T06:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:15:20","slug":"state-it-officials-make-a-case-for-cyber-grant-reauthorization-before-house-subcommittee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/state-it-officials-make-a-case-for-cyber-grant-reauthorization-before-house-subcommittee\/","title":{"rendered":"State IT officials make a case for cyber grant reauthorization before House subcommittee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/state-local-cyber-grant-program-house-subcommittee\/\">State IT officials make a case for cyber grant reauthorization before House subcommittee<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/state-local-cyber-grant-program-house-subcommittee\/\">https:\/\/statescoop.com\/state-local-cyber-grant-program-house-subcommittee\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-21 19:19:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"statescoop.com\">statescoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several state technology officials on Thursday brought before a House Homeland Security subcommittee a request that Congress reauthorize funding for the expired State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program and renew cybersecurity programs inside the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency that have been decommissioned under the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Rep. Andy Ogles, a Republican from Tennessee who chairs the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection, and who introduced legislation approved by the House last year to reauthorize SLCGP grant funding, state officials said their organizations, and the local governments they assist, are facing cybersecurity challenges can be met far more readily with aid from the federal government. Colin Ahern, New York State\u2019s director of security and intelligence, summarized the problem in his opening statement when he said that \u201cour states are on the front lines of multiple cyber conflicts, yet we are being asked to manage nation-state risks while our federal partners step back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of more than two hours, state officials explained the many benefits that the grant program had afforded their local governments over four years of funding. Tennessee Chief Information Officer Kristin Darby said that her state\u2019s local governments, which she described as having \u201clittle or no dedicated cybersecurity staff\u201d and are living with \u201ca dangerous imbalance between highly sophisticated attackers and severely resource constrained defenders,\u201d found consistent improvement in their defenses after regular participation in the grant program. Through the grant program, which provided $1 billion for states and local governments through 2021\u2019s infrastructure bill, Tennessee secured nearly 90,000 endpoints on local government networks, said Darby, adding that \u201cmany of these local governments simply could not deploy or sustain these capabilities on their own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/state-local-cyber-grant-program-house-subcommittee\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State IT officials make a case for cyber grant reauthorization before House subcommittee https:\/\/statescoop.com\/state-local-cyber-grant-program-house-subcommittee\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/05\/screenshot-3.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-252259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252261,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252259\/revisions\/252261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}