KeyW Announces Six Courses Recommended for College Credits by American Council on Education
March 07 2018 - 9:30AM
The KeyW Holding Corporation (NASDAQ:KEYW) today announced that the
American Council on Education’s College Credit Recommendation
Service (ACE CREDIT®) has evaluated and recommended college credit
for six of its Parrot Labs proficiency-based Cyber Mission Training
courses. ACE, the major coordinating body for all the nation’s
higher education institutions, seeks to provide leadership and a
unifying voice on key higher education issues and to influence
public policy through advocacy, research and program initiatives.
“These credit recommendations represent KeyW’s continued
investment in advancing proficiency-based
Cyber Mission Training and we’re honored to become one
of the few companies to receive ACE
credit recommendations in this discipline,” said
John Sutton, KeyW’s chief operating officer. “More importantly, our
customers value the potential for their students to earn college
credits while gaining proficiency in critical skills that
support national security initiatives.”
ACE CREDIT helps adults gain academic credit for courses and
examinations taken outside traditional degree programs. The ACE
CREDIT Network of participating colleges and universities consider
ACE CREDIT recommendations in determining the applicability of
coursework and examination results to their courses and degree
programs.
For more than 30 years, colleges and universities have trusted
ACE CREDIT to provide reliable course equivalency information to
facilitate their decisions to award academic credit. For more
information, visit the ACE CREDIT website at
www.acenet.edu/credit.
KeyW’s Parrot Labs’ offers a total of six cyber mission training
courses that have been recommended for college credits by ACE
CREDIT. For a complete listing of these courses, please visit the
Parrot Labs’ page on the ACE website.
About ACE
Founded in 1918, ACE is the major coordinating body for all the
nation’s higher education institutions, representing more than
1,600 college and university presidents and more than 200 related
associations nationwide. It provides leadership on key higher
education issues and influences public policy through advocacy. For
more information, please visit www.acenet.edu or follow ACE on
Twitter @ACEducation.
About Parrot Labs and KeyW
KeyW’s Parrot Labs offers interactive, proficiency-based Cyber
Mission Training classes with industry-leading instructors that
make it easy for cybersecurity professionals to meet their training
requirements. Excelling in offensive methodologies such as network
exploitation, Parrot Labs uses the Survey, Secure, Protect and
Recover methodology to defend against and locate malicious threats
and instruct cyber leaders about the cyber threat landscape.
KeyW is a pure-play national security solutions provider for the
Intelligence, Cyber and Counterterrorism Communities' toughest
challenges. We support the collection, processing, analysis and
dissemination of information across the full spectrum of their
missions. We employ and challenge more than 2,000 of the most
talented professionals in the industry with solving such complex
problems as preventing cyber threats, transforming data into
intelligence and combating global terrorism. For more information,
please visit www.KeyWCorp.com or follow KeyW on Twitter
@KeyWCorp.
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Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements include
but are not limited to: statements about our future expectations,
plans and prospects; statements regarding our strategies,
plans, and operations; and other statements containing the words
"estimates," "believes," "anticipates," "plans," "expects," "will,"
"potential," "opportunities," and similar expressions. Our actual
results, performance or achievements or industry results may differ
materially from those expressed or implied in these forward-looking
statements. These statements involve numerous risks and
uncertainties, including but not limited to those risk factors set
forth in our Annual Report on Form 10-K, dated and filed March 15,
2017 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as required
under the Securities Act of 1934, and other filings that we make
with the SEC from time to time. Due to such uncertainties and
risks, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such
forward-looking statements. KeyW is under no obligation to (and
expressly disclaims any such obligation to) update or alter its
forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise.
Media Contact:Heather
Williams240-565-5357communications@keywcorp.com
Investor Contact:Mark Zindler703-880-9379
investors@keywcorp.com
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