What is cyber corps?

Answer 1

I am a Post Graduate of an NSA Center of Excellence (COE). I graduated in 2004.

On its simplest level, the Cyber corps was the first program on the cutting edge, along with the DoD Scholarship for Service.

Whereas DoD had the funds to sponsor a handful of individuals the time, the Cyber corp came out of National Security Agency (NSA). NSA worked through the National Science Foundation (NSF) and subsequently NSF, OPM, became the face of Cyber corps. DHS, IRS, NAS, Department of energy were prime grounds for a graduate, but some PH.D student didn't see the reason to take a government job starting at $32K .

I ended up in some 9th tier organization who was always in the basement and didn't go along with recommendations, were fairly clueless when it came to user problems, alone LAN and Network troubleshooting. I was there for about two months. The clincher for me was when a worker across from my cube bent over to me and gave me the following advice "Why work so hard. Do 102 things a day, you know an email to the high level & phone talk nonstop. She said "why bust your butt when you can get it the easy way".

I left and to make a long story short became a 1099 and worked where and when I wanted. It was fair - I did a good job and they paid me top dollar.

I managed to get the funding forgiven by OPM since I was a pioneer in the field as a contractor, and they soon changed it up so you're not ties to Gov't. service.

If you would like more info, head to the NSA, DHS, OPM and NSF websites and with my "brief" narrative it will make sense.