In a press release by Ian Graham, dated October 29, 2010, the Department of Defense announces the development of two new cyber courses being taught at the United States Air Force's Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
Brigadier General Walter D. Givhan (USAF), AFIT Commandant, announced during a "DOD Live" bloggers roundtable that AFIT has added "graduate-level cybersecurity education and research to its academic offerings." Gen. Givhan continues, "[s]ome training and research has been going on already, since the advent of computer networks on a large scale, but now AFIT offers master's degrees and doctorates in cyber fields."
"What we are doing is truly education – it's not training. We're educating students on the capabilities, with a little bit of hands-on work as well on particular technology and capabilities within that technology. But it's not like we're giving them a specific cyberweapon and teaching them how to fire or use that specific cyberweapon."
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The full text of the press release can be found at the link above, or here.
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