Sun and the U.S. Army Intelligence Center (USAIC) have created a unique education program and re-enlistment incentive to provide soldiers trained on Sun servers, workstations and storage systems with hands-on experience at Sun's Northern California campuses.

The innovative industry-government program, called the Sun Microsystems/Army System Administrator Fellows Internship Program, is helping the U.S. Army retain military personnel with marketable technology skills and ensuring that recruits are trained with an eye toward innovations in network architectures and SolarisTM Operating Environment (Solaris OE) platform-based technologies.

The Sun Microsystems/Army System Administrator Fellows Internship Program includes three stages:

• IT Training: Students complete course work at the USAIC in administration of computer systems and software based on Solaris OE.

• Sun Internship: Outstanding systems administrators are invited to pursue a six-month internship at Sun's Northern California offices. Internships cover current and future system administration practices, keeping recruits at the leading edge of information technology.

• Student Teaching: Upon completion of the Sun internship, military personnel are assigned to teach classes in UNIXR systems administration and network engineering to other recruits at USAIC's Fort Huachuca, Arizona facility.

Now entering its fourth year, the program has been host-managed by a number of different organizations within Sun, giving recruits exposure to network security, enterprise system administration and PC interoperability experts. Army leaders agree that the program helps them to stay at the leading edge of training, recruitment and retention.

Every year, the USAIC trains approximately 320 new soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines to maintain the Sun UNIX systems-based computer networks used at military intelligence sites around the world. Under the internship program, outstanding IT system administrators from the USAIC are accepted by Sun to pursue internships at Sun facilities in the San Francisco Bay Area. Each intern has solid base of technical skills and training, which can include:

• Configuring and troubleshooting SunTM Enterprise Servers and Sun FireTM Servers
• Adding and replacing boards in an enterprise-class server using Dynamic Reconfiguration
• Configuring and troubleshooting Sun UltraTM Workstations and Sun BladeTM Workstations
• Installing the Solaris OE
• Executing UNIX commands and utilities
• Configuring a Sun StorEdgeTM Array using VERITAS Volume Manager and Sun StorEdgeTM RAID Manager software
• Understanding of generic network principles and fundamentals

For contact information about the Internship program or more details about this article, please visit:

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