DVIDS – News – South Carolina National Guard, UofSC Aiken take next step toward enhancing cyber
News Highlights: DVIDS – News – South Carolina National Guard, UofSC Aiken take next step toward enhancing cyber.
Aiken, SC – Representatives from the South Carolina National Guard and University of South Carolina Aiken (UofSC Aiken) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at the UofSC Aiken campus on February 1, 2021, in support of the development of a new South Carolina National Guard Preparedness Center with a focus on improving cyber initiatives in the state.
Major General R. van McCarty of the United States Army, the Adjutant General for South Carolina, and Dr. Sandra J. Jordan, Chancellor of UofSC Aiken, signed the Memorandum of Understanding in recognition of the South Carolina Construction Agreement National Guard Preparedness Center. the UofSC Aiken campus. Also referred to as a cybersecurity DreamPort, the preparedness center is expected to be home to the South Carolina National Guard’s 125th Cyber Battalion, which is currently headquartered at the McEntire Joint National Guard Base, South Carolina. The facility’s construction on the UofSC Aiken campus will allow the South Carolina National Guard to leverage its academic partnership with UofSC Aiken, as well as the area’s cyber capabilities, including the U.S. Army Cyber Center of Excellence at Fort Gordon, Georgia and the Savannah River National Laboratory’s Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative (AMC).