A key opportunity to grow the nation’s ranks of cybersecurity and information technology (CS/IT) professionals exists among a smattering of children with unexpected potential. They may not be A students, math whizzes, STEM-focused or even college-bound. But outside of class, they wile away hours gaming, coding, building robotics or toying…...
Key Leaders Series Focuses on How to Thrive During a Pandemic
From supporting national security missions, business success and talent development in the midst of a pandemic to helping elementary school children improve their reading, the latest FMA Key Leaders Series provided a wealth of insights on how to create healthy companies and communities during a very challenging year. Kathy Warden…...
Project SCOPE Social Media Campaign Launch
With the start of the 2020-2021 school year, the Fort Meade Alliance has kicked off a social media blitz touting the new and improved Project SCOPE website to students and teachers. Project SCOPE provides students, members of the workforce and transitioning military/veterans with valuable resources to understand the benefits of…...
Leading the Charge of STEMOVATION in Anne Arundel County
Anne Arundel County Public Schools (AACPS) has partnered with the Fort Meade Alliance (FMA) and Anne Arundel Economic Development Corporation (AAEDC) to develop a new program that will allow high school students to take existing projects to the next level. The new program, called STEMOVATION, gives select juniors at three…...
Challenge #1: FMA committee seeks causes, solutions for lack of diversity in cyber workforce
The problem is evident at most any industry event or cybersecurity worksite. The Fort Meade Region, like the rest of America, suffers from a serious lack of diversity in its cyber workforce. As they assessed the obstacles to growing the region’s cybersecurity/information technology (CS/IT) workforce, members of the FMA Education…...
FMA committee probes biggest challenges to building CS/IT workforce
Troubled by the persistent shortage of skilled cyber security workers, the Fort Meade Alliance last year assembled a group of high-level representatives from business, government and educational organizations to identify key obstacles limiting the expansion of the cybersecurity and information technology (CS/IT) workforce and begin working towards solutions. “I am…...