Drop and Give Me 20 Lines of Code

Inside the US Navy's Corry Station base in Pensacola, FL, there's a school that wouldn't look out of place on any well-manicured college campus -- except for a handful of buildings wreathed in barbed wire, with the windows bricked up. That's to keep electronic signals from gettin...

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Published in:Bloomberg businessweek (Online) 2015-07, p.28
Main Authors: Robertson, Jordan, Riley, Michael
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Armed forces
Cybercrime
Electronic warfare
Military strategy
Military training
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Summary:Inside the US Navy's Corry Station base in Pensacola, FL, there's a school that wouldn't look out of place on any well-manicured college campus -- except for a handful of buildings wreathed in barbed wire, with the windows bricked up. That's to keep electronic signals from getting in or out. The buildings make up the Center for Information Dominance (CID), the Pentagon's primary boot camp for personnel training in the art of cyberwar. The Corry Station outpost is at the forefront of efforts to change that. CID's Joint Cyber Analysis Course, a six-month electronic warfare program that trains service members from each branch, has become required learning for many positions. CID recruits students based on the aptitude for math and critical thinking they show on military entrance exams. Tammi Sternberg, one of the heads of the hacker training program, says the learning curve in the classes is steep enough that even people with computer science degrees have flunked.
ISSN:0007-7135
2162-657X