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Discuss “Nation’s cybersecurity chief returns to CMU”

After two years and a questionable $19,577,602 in salaries and contracts, the nation’s cybersecurity chief is returning to Carnegie Mellon.

Donald “Andy” Purdy has been on loan from the university to the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) for the last two years. His term as acting director, which ended last Tuesday, has not been without controversy.

The Associated Press reported on September 22 that Purdy was leaving a position in which he “worked under an unusual agreement with a private university that does extensive business with the office he manages.”

The article referred to $19 million in funding that Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute (SEI) received from DHS’s...

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