On June 26th, 2018, the Community, Military and Federal Facility Partnership of NOVA and the GMU-Virginia Serious Game Institute hosted a Cyber conference with the following objectives:
- Understand types of career opportunities in the region
- Understand cyber workforce and curriculum standardization efforts underway
- Understand efforts underway in high school systems, colleges and universities, and in veteran’s organizations to address cyber talent needs
- Identify needs to support high school teachers and transitioning veterans
- Present training pathways and programs for veterans to get qualified, and high school teachers to get trained
- Identify information link(s) to cyber jobs and training curriculum(s) for veterans and high school teachers
- Develop updated plan for enhancing training and education pathways for cyber jobs from inputs at the conference
The conference generated a formal white paper sponsored by the partners focused on summarizing the conferences outcomes and next steps for the Northern VA region. We will release the findings of this white paper at the Virginia Cybersecurity Education Conference.
The partners of the consortium include the following: Northern VA Regional Council, Northern VA Community College, Booz Allen and Hamilton, George Mason University.
