Volant takes command of Information Operations Support Center - Aug. 17, 2014

Col. Adam C. Volant takes command of the Fairfax-based Information Operations Support Center from Col. Edward R. Morgan, II, at a change of command ceremony Aug. 17, 2014, at Fort Belvoir, Va. Brig. Gen. Blake C. Ortner, the Virginia National Guard Land Component Commander, presided over the guidon exchange that symbolized the transition between the two officers.

The command of IOSC caps a 35-year military career for Morgan that included service in the Connecticut and Virginia National Guard. Morgan, an engineer officer, commanded the 276th Engineer Battalion and led the organization during its deployment to Iraq in 2004, and he later served as the operations and training officer for the Fort Belvoir-based 29th Infantry Division, commander of the Joint National Guard Detachment at U. S. Joint Forces Command and J7 Reserve Director for the Joint Warfighting Center in Suffolk. Morgan was presented with the Meritorious Service Medal and the Bronze De Fleury Medal, an award of the U.S. Army Engineer Association to honor those individuals who have provided significant contributions to Army Engineering.

Volant most recently served as the information operations officer for the 29th Infantry Division and previously commanded the Fairfax-based Data Processing Unit, the largest cyber formation in the Army National Guard and a subordinate unit of the IOSC.

The IOSC commander serves as the senior cyber staff officer in the Joint Force Headquarters - Virginia and is the primary advisor to the Adjutant General on cyber network operations. The federal mission of the IOSC is to train, mobilize and deploy to conduct information operations, cyber network operations and computer network recovery operations in support of designated combatant commander or lead federal agency, and the state mission is train, mobilize and deploy to conduct cyber network operations and computer network recovery operations in support of the Commonwealth of Virginia.