CIWT Changes Leadership, Farewells Capt. Bill Lintz

Photo By Petty Officer 1st Class Taylor Jackson | 180524-N-FI568-0078 PENSACOLA, Fla. (May 24, 2018) Capt. Nick Andrews (right) relieves Capt. Bill Lintz as commaning officer of the Center for Information Warfare Training during a change of command ceremony. Lintz retired following 26 years of naval service. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Taylor L. Jackson/Released)  

PENSACOLA, FL, UNITED STATES

05.24.2018

Story by Glenn Sircy 

Center for Information Warfare Training

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- The Center for Information Warfare training (CIWT) held a combined change of command and retirement ceremony at the National Museum of Naval Aviation onboard Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, May 24.

Capt. Nicholas “Nick” Andrews II relieved Capt. William “Bill” Lintz as CIWT’s commanding officer during the time-honored tradition of transferring total responsibility, authority and accountability from one individual to another. Immediately following the change of command portion of the ceremony, Lintz’s retirement ceremony was held.

Lintz, originally from Beaver, Pennsylvania, assumed command of CIWT May 3, 2016.

"When I was fortunate enough to be selected for major command, CIWT was where I wanted to be and this is the job I wanted," shared Lintz. "There were a myriad of reasons why, but primary was the realization that the Navy and its success can be attributed to many capabilities such as advanced technology, numbers of war ships, or availability, deployability and readiness. However, in the end, the Navy is successful because of its Sailors and Sailors are successful because we train them to be. Every success in the Navy is based on well trained Sailors, and I am proud to have been part of training them."

Lintz is a 1992 graduate of Villanova University with master's and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School. As a cryptologic officer, he served with various afloat and ashore commands, including U.S. Naval Forces Central Command/U.S. 5th Fleet as fleet intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance collection manager and assistant force cryptologist; Navy Information Operations Command, Pensacola, Florida, as executive officer; U.S. 3rd Fleet as deputy assistant chief of staff for Operations and Fleet Information Operations lead; U.S. Pacific Fleet in the Directorate of Information Operations and Cryptology as lead for Fleet Requirements, Manpower, and Training; Fleet Intelligence Training Center in San Diego as commanding officer; and deputy chief of the Remote Operations Center at the National Security Agency/Central Security Service, Fort Meade, Maryland.

The ceremony's guest speaker was John Jones, executive director for the Naval Education and Training Command (NETC), and the presiding officer was Capt. Mike Whitt, chief of staff at NETC.

Throughout the ceremony, Lintz was lauded for his inspiring leadership and superior performance, highlighting 26 years of dedicated and honorable service. He was also awarded the Legion of Merit Medal and the Navy Information Warfare and Cryptology Meritorious Service Award.

Excerpts from the awards included: “Captain Lintz exceeded his vision to lead the Navy’s principle cutting-edge training organization that prepared graduates to fight and win across all aspects of Information Warfare. In his first year in command, he led the Center for Information Warfare Training to its first receipt of the prestigious Training Excellence Award in more than five years. In his second year, he set a new standard for the entire Naval Education and Training Command domain by not only winning the Training Excellence Award for the second year in a row, but winning all nine functional areas measured. A champion for the betterment of the training environment, he reorganized his staff to establish a Training Support Services Directorate to formalize support to technical and non-technical training. His consolidation of 20,000 square feet of training space, and upgrades of 10 million dollars in equipment and facilities, resulted in an unprecedented 100 percent score awarded by the National Security Agency for security accreditation. Additionally, to service the increased training demands, he advocated for and identified funding for a 37,000 square foot modular facility.”

During his remarks, Lintz welcomed and congratulated Andrews for receiving orders to the best command in the Navy.

"It is the dedication, the intelligence, the expertise and the can-do spirit of the entire crew that makes the award-winning CIWT domain what it is," added Lintz. "If there was an award to be won in the past two years, CIWT won it. At all locations, CIWT is the most capable, the most squared away, the best at what we do.”

Lintz also thanked all his family, friends and shipmates for their unwavering support and dedication throughout his 26-year career. Additionally, Lintz shared that everything Andrews does and every Sailor he trains will impact the entire Navy and the nation as a whole.

Andrews, a native of Durham, North Carolina, comes to CIWT from his last assignment as information warfare commander for the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group.

"I'm both humbled and honored to join the CIWT team, and truly inspired to work alongside so many dedicated professionals," remarked Andrews. "CIWT has a long standing reputation for delivering trained, top-notch warfighters, and that mission is more important now than ever. I am proud to be part of this award-winning team."

Andrews graduated Boston University in 1992, and earned master’s degrees from the Naval War College and the Naval Postgraduate School. Additionally, he’s also a graduate of the Joint Forces Staff College.

Andrews’ operational assignments include Patrol Squadron (VP) 4, where he served as a patrol plane commander; the commissioning crew of USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) as the anti-submarine warfare officer and a tactical action officer; flag communications officer for Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 12 where he served as U.S. Naval Forces Central Command's Task Force 50 battle watch captain; information technology deputy and knowledge manager for CSG 9; and information warfare commander for USS Theodore Roosevelt Strike Group. Additionally, he deployed as an individual augmentee to Baghdad, Iraq, where he served as Iraqi information and communications technology infrastructure branch officer and knowledge and information management branch officer for the directorate of communication and information systems at Multi-National Forces Iraq.

Ashore, he served as administrative officer for Patrol and Reconnaissance Wing 2; deputy of command, control, communications, computers and intelligence plans (C4I) at U.S. Pacific Fleet; policy and compliance division head for Navy Cyber Forces; and executive officer for the Naval Satellite Operations Center.

CIWT is one of the largest of the NETC learning centers with four schoolhouse commands, two detachments, and training sites throughout the United States and Japan. Training 22,000 students every year, CIWT delivers trained information warfare professionals to the Navy and joint services, enabling optimal performance of information warfare across the full spectrum of military operations. CIWT also offers more than 200 courses for cryptologic technicians, intelligence specialists, information systems technicians, electronics technicians and officers in the information warfare community.

For more news from Center for Information Warfare Training organization, visit http://www.navy.mil/local/cid/, http://www.netc.navy.mil/centers/CIWT/, http://www.facebook.com/NavyCIWT, or http://www.twitter.com/NavyCIWT.
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• Date Taken: 05.24.2018
• Date Posted: 05.24.2018 19:08
• Story ID: 278401
• Location: PENSACOLA, FL, US