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Fort Gordon

Where Tradition Meets the Future

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The U.S. Army’s Cyber Center of
Excellence at Fort Gordon Augusta a tech town better known as the Fort
Gordon Cyber District, a district that
serves not only the Army, but also is ready to be on the front lines of
the Navy, Air Force, Marines, and our nation’s cyber defense.
multinational forces. Fort Gordon
has become a center for joint forces Thomson-McDuffie County
activities, training, and operations. and its neighbors are preparing
The Central Savannah River Area for this phenomenal growth
(CSRA) has long been home to tech- in the tech sector in various
and cyber-related companies, which ways, most notably by adding
is one of the major draws of the area instruction in public schools and
and one of the reasons the Pentagon technical colleges to train the
announced the relocation of the next generation of cyber security
cyber center to Fort Gordon in 2013. workers. McDuffie County Schools
Other cyber-focused businesses have added cyber security as one
and top cybersecurity workers are of the career pathways that students
taking advantage of the expanding can choose, and both Augusta
field. They are moving their head- Technical College and Augusta
quarters and other branches to the University offer cyber security
CSRA, thus transforming the area into degree programs. 

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