Purposethe mississippi cyber and technology center mctc project grant is awarded to the mississippi department of environmental quality under the restore act direct component program to provide…

The Department of the Treasury Departmental Offices awarded the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality $12,281,302 on June 1, 2026, under the RESTORE Act Direct Component program (CFDA 21.015) to complete construction of the Mississippi Cyber and Technology Center, a workforce training facility supporting cybersecurity education for the Mississippi Gulf Coast region.

The award funds infrastructure capacity development to address current and future cybersecurity workforce needs of existing and expanding industry sectors on the Gulf Coast. The Mississippi State University Research and Technology Corporation serves as the subrecipient and will participate in project delivery. Work is performed in Mississippi with an ultimate completion date of May 31, 2028.

The RESTORE Act Direct Component program supports ecological and economic restoration of the U.S. Gulf Coast through planning and implementation projects aligned with one of eleven eligible purposes. Only 47 entities named in the RESTORE Act are eligible applicants; Mississippi's eligibility flows through the state environmental quality agency. The funding derives from civil and administrative penalties from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill civil settlement. The assistance type is a formula grant.

Purposethe mississippi cyber and technology center mctc project grant is awarded to the mississippi department of environmental quality under the restore act direct component program to provide infrastructure capacity to support workforce training for the cybersecurity field through the construction of the mctc.activities to be performedto complete construction of the mctc.end goalexpected outcomes the goal of the project is to create a training facility to support current and future cybersecurity workforce needs of existing and expanding industry sectors on the mississippi gulf coast.beneficiaries the project will benefit the communities in MISSISSIPPI39; s gulf coast region.subrecipient activitiesthe subrecipient of this award is the mississippi state university research and technology corporation.