A look back at the relatively short history of the White House's chief technology officer role and accomplishments of the first four people to hold it.

Federal CISO Suzette Kent says the two rounds of academies have had more than 2,300 federal employees apply in all.

"The journey now is to the much more difficult things," the Federal CIO said.

Federal employees looking to learn cybersecurity skills now have more time to apply for a White House-backed education program. The application deadline for the charter class of the Federal Cybersecurity Reskilling Academy was supposed to be Friday, but due to the ongoing partial government shutdown, that deadline has been indefinitely postponed. Federal CIO Suzette Kent