Virtual ‘capture the flag’ helps Soldiers enhance cyber capabilities

 

Gaming to win

Story by Jacqueline M. Hames, Soldiers, Defense Media Activity

    

 

Virtual ‘capture the flag’ helps Soldiers enhance cyber capabilities

Sgt. 1st Class Scott Blakey assesses weapons systems for Team Kobayashi Maru during the 780th Military Intelligence Brigade’s Cyber Capture the Flag exercise at McGill Training Center on Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, May 19, 2015. (DOD photo by Jacqueline M. Hames, Soldiers, Defense Media Activity)

Three teams of 30 people sat crammed around computers in the classroom of McGill Training Center on Fort George G. Meade, Maryland. The teams, named “Trogdor,” “Kobayashi Maru,” and “Planet Express Ship,” made up of mostly Soldiers and civilians, were partitioned off from one another. Each team monitored large projector screens, tracking a spaceship through enemy territory. A loud, celebratory whoop went up from Team Trogdor as the event resumed after lunch.

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