Coast Guard Academy Launches New Cyber Systems Major, $1.3M Cyber Lab

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https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/Coast-Guard-Academy-Launches-Cyber-Systems-Major-13M-Cyber-Lab-497289001.html

By Heather Burian
nbcconnecticut.com
Oct 12, 2018

A brand-new cyber lab at the Coast Guard Academy in New London is going to 
help better train cadets and give them opportunities for hands-on 
learning.

"I was hoping there would be a cyber major when I applied, so hearing 
there was news of it, I was all over it," said Fourth Class Cadet Nick 
Epstein of Elkridge, Maryland.

He’s part of the Coast Guard Academy Class of 2022 and declared the 
brand-new cyber systems major as his intended major, making him part of 
the inaugural class.

He’ll be working in a new $1.3 million state-of-the-art cyber lab.

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