Center for Information Warfare Training

ith relocation to its present site in 1928. Cmdr. William M. Corry Jr., a Medal of Honor winner who died as a result of burns received while attempting to rescue a fellow officer from a crashed and burning aircraft. Corry was one of naval aviation's pioneers, having been among the first to earn the Navy's "wings of gold." In the beginning, Corry Field was an active aviation training complex where advanced fighter plane techniques were taught. In 1943, the field was redesignated as Naval Auxiliary Air Station, continuing to serve as a training center for aviators through World War II and during the Korean conflict, until its decommissioning in 1958. The site saw its metamorphosis from flight training to technical training in 1960, when the first class of communications technicians (later known as cryptologic technicians) arrived. Hangars were converted to classrooms and laboratories were stocked with sophisticated communications training equipment. To reflect this change, the chief of naval operations changed the name of Corry Field to Naval Technical Training Center Corry Station in 1973. NTTC Corry Station was among the first Navy technical schools to be accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. This accreditation certified that the instruction offered at NTTC was of the same quality as that offered in the best civilian vocational institutions, and that students could receive college-level credit for completed courses. By 1982, Corry Station had become the largest command in the Pensacola Naval Complex, and its change from air facility to technical training was reflected by a revamped appearance in the form of new buildings and facilities. By 1990, the base had expanded even more to incorporate the Opticalman/Instrumentman School, which closed in 1996. In 2003, Naval Technical Training Center Corry Station officially became the Center for Cryptology Corry Station as part of the chief of naval operations establishment of Navy learning centers in support of the Revolution in Training. In 2005, Center for Cryptology Corry Station and Center for Information Technology San Diego merged to become Center for Information Dominance Corry Station. This merger integrated training responsibilities for the four key disciplines of information dominance under one learning center. In 2011, CID merged with the Center for Naval Intelligence. In July 2016, CID changed names to Center for Information Warfare Training. In early 2016, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare and Director of Naval Intelligence Vice Adm. Ted Branch replaced the term "information dominance" with "information warfare." This also resulted in Naval Information Dominance Forces, which identifies the requirements for IW community training, also changing its name to Naval Information Forces to be consistent with naming conventions for other type commanders. The evolution in terminology and command names was in response to Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson's "A Design for Maintaining Maritime Superiority." The document emphasizes "information IN warfare" and "information AS warfare" and demands information warfare delivery as a critical capability of the Navy's mission sets. Headquartered at Naval Air Station Pensacola's Corry Station, Florida, CIWT continues to train the information warfare community at 15 locations in the continental United States, Hawaii and Japan as a learning center reporting to Naval Education and Training Command.