Contract covers cybercrime fighters

Defense Computer Investigations Training Program

The Defense Department's Computer Investigations Training Program has awarded an eight-year, $86.8 million task order to Computer Sciences Corp. to train DOD cybercrime fighters.

CSC will support the program's efforts to train law enforcement professionals in computer investigations. The contract was awarded under the General Services Administration Federal Technology Service's Millennia contract.

The training is expected to be valuable for homeland defense, GSA officials said, and could prove to be popular with other federal law enforcement agencies.

Courses will cover computer search and seizure, computer intrusions and forensic computer media analysis.

The program is responsible for creating and providing computer investigative training for DOD services. It was created in February 1998 and offered its first class, Introduction to Computer Search and Seizure, in September 1998.