1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Cyber Scholarship Opportunities Act of 2017 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) A well-trained workforce is essential to meeting the Nation’s growing cybersecurity needs. (2) A 2015 report by the National Academy of Public Administration found that the United States faces a severe shortage of properly trained and equipped cybersecurity professionals. (3) A 2015 study of the information security workforce found that the information security workforce shortfall is widening. (4) The National Science Foundation’s CyberCorps: Scholarship-for-Service program is a successful effort to support capacity building in institutions of higher education and scholarships for students to pursue cybersecurity careers. 3. Federal Cyber Scholarship-for-Service program Section 302 of the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014 ( 15 U.S.C. 7442 ) is amended— (1) in subsection (a), by adding at the end the following: Scholarship recipients shall include eligible students who are pursuing an associate's degree in a cybersecurity field without the intent of transferring to a bachelor’s degree program and either have a bachelor's degree already or are veterans of the Armed Forces. ; (2) in subsection (d), by adding at the end the following: In the case of a scholarship recipient who is pursuing a doctoral or master's degree, such agreement may include (if determined on a case-by-case basis by the Director of the National Science Foundation to be appropriate and to further the goals of the scholarship-for-service program) an agreement for the recipient to work at an institution of higher education or for a local educational agency teaching cybersecurity skills for a period equal to the length of the scholarship following receipt of such degree.