HERDON, VA – With the opening of its new internet technology training center in Herndon, VA, Command Information, which assists businesses and government agencies adopt next-generation internet technologies and practices, plans to create approximately 300 new jobs by the end of 2006.

Command Information, which currently has about 100 workers expects to reach 400 by the end of the year. Created in February with a $20 million first round of venture capital, Command Information provides Internet Protocol 6 (IPv6) services to Fortune 1000 companies and government agencies.

IPv6 is the new version of internet protocal to be formally adopted. IPv4, which was developed in the ‘70s, is the current version that will soon be outdated. The federal government is mandating the use of IPv6 by 2008.

Company officials say the new workers would be housed at its current 15,000-square-foot HQ in Herndon, the new 4,000-square-foot training facility, and at other locations in Northern Virginia. The new facility will train professionals in IPv6.

“Northern Virginia will be the nexus of the next generation of the Internet, and Fairfax County is fertile ground for entrepreneurs who take advantage of it,” Command Information CEO Tom Patterson says in a statement.

“The training center will be a resource for companies of all shapes and sizes to learn how IPv6 can improve the way business is done. Forward-thinking companies and federal institutions have much to gain from the next generation Internet.”

www.commandinformation.com

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