Fort Meade personnel and family members will soon have a new way to access resiliency services from mental health resources to nutrition counseling to music camps for kids. Members of the Fort Meade Alliance have been constructing a Resiliency Resources kiosk. In recent months, members of the Military and Family…...
DoD contracts to include new cybersecurity requirements
Experts in defense contracting are advising small and mid-sized businesses to start preparing for the looming rollout of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program. Developed through the Department of Defense’s Office of the Undersecretary for Acquisitions and Sustainment, CMMC is designed to make cybersecurity a foundational component of all…...
Cyber sleuthing and the personal touch are key to successful recruiting
Eighteen months after completing his degree and starting work with a Fort Meade contractor, the gifted high-tech professional tendered his resignation. There weren’t any problems between the young man and his employer. But another company had offered him a raise of $65,000 and a benefits package that included a 17-percent…...
Tech Mania brings cyber, drones, brains, virtual reality and a mobile STEM lab to local students
More than 120 local 9th grade students gathered at Anne Arundel Community College’s Regional Higher Education Center in Hanover on Nov. 22 for a morning filled with exciting STEM activities from FMA members. Tech Mania welcomed students from Meade High School and North County High School in Anne Arundel County;…...
Army honors FGGM and FMA for its partnership
The U.S. Department of the Army has awarded Fort George G. Meade and the Fort Meade Alliance a 2019 Army Community Partnership Award for their collaboration to renovate Kuhn Hall into the installation’s new Resiliency and Education Center. The 9,000-square-foot revamped facility will improve the lives of military personnel, their…...
Remembering Elijah Cummings
He was best known as a tireless crusader within the halls of Congress for equality, social justice and principled government, but for one morning Elijah Cummings was the man who convinced a group of Meade High School students that they could achieve any dream. The Representative of Maryland’s Seventh Congressional…...