1776 is hiring its first director of cybersecurity ventures.

It’s a new role that points to the incubator’s plans: “Cybersecurity is going to be a huge focus for us in 2017,” said communications director Erin McPike. The incubator previously listed the role in the fall of 2015 but didn’t fill it.

(Another space 1776 is going deeper into? Blockchain.)

1776, which has previously partnered with the Department of Defense and the National Security Agency, wants to be doing “a lot more in the cybersecurity base, recruiting a lot more startups and partnering with big institutions,” she said.

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