Federal Drive

Program aims to train wounded vets in IT

Learn more about a program to give wounded veterans new skills in the DoD report

Federal News Network Staff

November 23, 2010 10:41 am

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wfedstaff | June 3, 2015 5:35 pm

What happens after wounded soldiers come home from deployment? Cisco is expanding a program to help those soldiers as they receive rehabilitation and other medical care. The Transition Training Academy is designed to take entry level IT training and add components in hopes of providing more opportunities after the soldiers are healed. Cisco’s Vice President of Technical Services Mike Quinn joined the Federal Drive to talk about how the company handles the logistics of the project.

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