Notice of Funding Opportunity for the Alternative Cyber Career Education (ACE) Grant Program

NOFO No. 2025-Cyber-02

The Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, on behalf of the MassCyberCenter, is issuing this Notice of Funding Opportunity for the Alternative Cyber Career Education (ACE) Grant Program. This program provides grants to organizations to support programs in Massachusetts that train young adults and retrain existing professionals to enter the cybersecurity workforce. The goal of this solicitation is to expand pathways that are not part of an academic degree (i.e. associates, bachelors, master’s or doctoral) leading to cybersecurity employment in Massachusetts.

Through this solicitation, MassCyberCenter is seeking to enhance existing non-degree training programs. Programs must also contain experiential and/or on-the-job training components that provide learners with the opportunity to gain experience required to obtain cybersecurity employment. Programs that do not contain experiential or on-the-job training components for learners will not be considered.

MassCyberCenter is interested in receiving responses that provide training to the following individuals:

• Individuals seeking to transition into a cybersecurity career from a non-cybersecurity role
• Young adults
• Populations underrepresented in the cybersecurity field including women and minorities
• Socio-economically disadvantaged populations
• Veterans
• Unemployed and underemployed individuals

Full details included in the NOFO linked below.

Download Application Documents:

• Download NOFO No. 2025-Cyber-02 (PDF) 
• Download Metrics Reporting Template (Excel) 
• Download Attachment C Budget Template (Excel)
• Download Questions & Answers Document (PDF)