| Sutter Holds Press Conference on CyberPatriot Announcement
On May 12, AFA Chairman Joe Sutter announced the “roll out" of CyberPatriot as UTheU National High School Cyber Defense Competition. He conducted a joint press conference with "Presenting Sponsor" Northrop Grumman Corporation (NGC) at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. The event was streamed on a live video feed accessible through the National Press Club website.
Sutter said that the AFA Board approved moving forward with CyberPatriot last February. He believes that this will rank with the most significant initiatives by the Association. CyberPatriot is designed to Excite, Educate, and Motivate the next generation of cyber defenders and other STEM graduates the nation needs.
This announcement is the culmination of several years of hard work by the staff, volunteers, and our other dedicated partners, including Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), the Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security (CIAS) at UT-San Antonio, General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Microsoft, Raytheon, AF Junior ROTC, and the Civil Air Patrol.
This year CyberPatriot will run two separate, parallel competitions: the All-Service Division comprised of up to 500 teams from JROTCs of all services and the Civil Air Patrol; and the Open Division will accept up to 500 non-JROTC/CAP high school teams. There will be an All-Service in-person competition in Orlando in February 2011 where the winner in each service will be determined. On 1-2 April 2011, the top team from each service from the Orlando event will join the 12 finalists from the Open Division for the Championships – the Commander in Chief Division Championship for the Services winners and the separate Open Division Championship, to be held in conjunction with the new CyberFutures Conference and Technology Exhibition at the Gaylord National Resort, National Harbor, Maryland.
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