Cyber and
Information Security
Workforce
Presented By:
Tom Flynn, CEcD
Director, Business Development
Prince William County
Department of Economic Development
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY SNAPSHOT
443,463
Population*
33% est. population growth by 2045**
42%
323,400
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Less than 20 miles from Washington, DC
Virginia’s 2nd largest and 4th fastest growing County
75% of Northern Virginia 1.5M workforce live within a
30-minute commute
2 Interstates - I-95 and I-66
7 commuter rail stops on two rail lines
Access to 3 major airports; Dulles International Airport is within
a 20-minute drive
6 higher education campuses and close to over 40 colleges
and universities
33.7 years median population age
122,450 at-place employment (as of 1Q2016)
3.5% unemployment rate; 1.6% lower than the national
unemployment rate (as of 2Q2016)
Median household income of $98,514
Home to the FBI Northern Virginia Resident Agency and
Marine Corps Base Quantico
AAA bond rating from all 3 rating agencies; held by only 1.5%
of all US counties.
Updated: September 2016
Workforce Pipeline
• Volgenau School of Engineering
• BS Degree in Cyber Security Engineering
• BS in Applied IT with concentration in
Information Security
• MS in Information Security and Assurance
• MS in Applied IT
• Undergraduate certificate in Information Security
• 400 students are currently enrolled in these
programs at the graduate and undergraduate level
• 138 students graduated from these programs in
2014
• Center for Secured Information Systems (CSIS)
designated a Center of Academic Excellence in
Information Assurance Education by the NSA.
Workforce Pipeline
• Associate of Applied Science Degree in IT
• Averaging 54 graduates per year since 2010
• Associate of Science in IT
• Averaging 286 graduates per year since 2010
• One Year IT Certificate Programs
• Cyber Security
• Network Engineering
• Application Programming
• Recognized by the National Security Administration as a Center of
Academic Excellence in Information Assurance/Cyber Defense.
• Workforce Center with Cyber Range to open in mid-2016
Workforce Pipeline
Prince William County is centrally located to
major research institutions producing both
engineering and information technology talent.
Simulation & Game Institute @ GMU
Simulation & Game Institute
• Simulation, modeling and
serious game business
incubator
• Affiliated with Serious
Game Institute, University
of Coventry, UK
• One of four global
affiliated facilities and the
only one located in the
United States.
• GMU offers BFA and MA in
Computer Game Design;
50 graduates per year
• Created 6 businesses and
70 jobs in first year
Prince William County Department of Economic Development
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