Bill Proposes to Incentivize Cybersecurity Innovations With Cash Prizes 

NextGov: A bipartisan group of senators proposed a bill that would instruct the Commerce Secretary to establish competitions and award prizes for meeting grand challenges in cybersecurity.

The Cyber Leap Act of 2020—introduced Wednesday by Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., and Jacky Rosen, D-Nev.—would allow Commerce to crowdsource funding for the challenges from other federal agencies, state, local and tribal governments as well as private sector entities and nonprofits.

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