[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 215 (Tuesday, December 14, 2021)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1369]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 SALUTING FIT'S CYBERSECURITY TEAM FOR EXTRAORDINARY FIRST PLACE FINISH

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                            HON. BILL POSEY

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, December 14, 2021

  Mr. POSEY. Madam Speaker, today I rise to honor the Florida Institute 
of Technology's Cyber League Team, FITSEC, for their extraordinary 
perfect score and first place finish in the Fall 2021 National Cyber 
League team tournament on November 7, 2021.
  The National Cyber League team tournament is a biannual national 
competition in which 650 institutions around the country face off to 
solve simulations of real-life cybersecurity problems. The National 
Cyber League assesses a team's ability to address nine critical 
cybersecurity workforce categories outlined in the NIST NICE 
Cybersecurity Framework and the NSA Knowledge Units. This year more 
than 3,900 teams competed, with our hometown team clinching the 
victory.
  The Florida Institute of Technology of Melbourne, FL, in my district, 
is leading the way in cybersecurity research and education and has been 
recognized as a National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of 
Homeland Security (DHS) National Center of Academic Excellence (CAE-R) 
in Cyber Defense Research.
  Their rigorous undergraduate Cyber Operations Concentration, modeled 
after the NSA Cyber Operations Knowledge Units, is developing bright 
young minds that will most certainly be among our nation's future 
leaders. It is good to know that students right here in Brevard County 
will soon help solve the problems of tomorrow, like countering 
unchecked foreign threats and filling the shortages in this growing 
field already identified by the federal government.
  The 2021 Florida Institute of Technology's team was coached by Dr. TJ 
O'Connor and consisted of two graduate and five undergraduate students 
in Computer Science, including Blake Janes, Carl Mann, Dave Breeden, 
Isaiah Thomas, Logan Suarez, Stephanie Wood, and Tiffanie Petersen.
  I urge my colleagues to join me in congratulating FIT and these 
student leaders on their outstanding accomplishments and wish them 
every success in the future.

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