Reserve wants soldiers to protect networks

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Reserve wants soldiers to protect networks
By Michelle Tan - Staff writer
Posted : Friday May 30, 2008 17:46:55 EDT

The Army Reserve is looking for soldiers with a knack for information technology to help fight the nation’s wars in cyberspace.

“As our dependency upon information technology continues to expand, so will the need for soldiers with the capabilities our soldiers have,” said Col. Wayne Dudding, commander of the Reserve’s Information Operations Command. “We will keep growing. The requirements are growing faster than we can.”

The command, based in Adelphi, Md., is the only one of its kind in the Reserve; the active Army has the 1st Information Operations Command at Fort Belvoir, Va.

About 375 soldiers are assigned to the Reserve Information Operations Command, which has five battalion-level units known as information operations centers. These centers are located in Adelphi; Devens, Mass.; Pittsburgh; San Antonio; and Camp Parks, Calif.

As civilians, they work for companies and organizations as varied as the Wichita, Kan., police department, Microsoft Corporation, the RAND Corporation and Gartner Inc.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/05/army_CyberWar_053008w/