Muscatatuck Urban Training Center (MUTC) is a 1,000 acre urban training facility located near Butlerville, Indiana. MUTC is used to train civilian first responders,

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, joint civilian/military response operations, and military

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. It is also home to the Ivy Tech Cyber Academy which offers an accelerated Cyber Security/Information Assurance Associate of Applied Science degree from Ivy Tech Community College – Columbus in an 11-month, 60 credit hour program. In addition, it is home to

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training environments. The center features more than 120 training structures and over 1 mile of searchable tunnels. A clock tower used as a rappel tower has all four clock faces set to 9:11.

History

The Muscatatuck Urban Training Center is located on the grounds of the former Muscatatuck State Developmental Center (MSDC). MSDC was created in 1920 as the Indiana Farm Colony for the

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. It became one of Indiana's largest mental institutions approximately 3,000 patients and around 2,000 employees. From 1920 through 2005, MSDC housed many of Indiana's challenged citizens and was once the largest employer in Jennings County. In 1997,

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lawmakers passed a plan to reorganize the state's health plan. Modern

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shrank its patient population down to about 1,200, and in 2001, Governor Frank O'Bannon announced that the state would close Muscatatuck. Governor

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passed control of the facility to the Indiana National Guard in July 2005. In 2015, computer security expert

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presented ScenGen and other

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technology, deployed at Lockheed Martin and

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, to SOCOM at Muscatatuck.

Training programs

Cybertropolis

Cybertropolis is a

training environment at the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center. It "consists of a representative city and residential infrastructure outfitted with operational SCADA, cellular, and enterprise networks". Red-Team/ Blue-Team exercises are conducted by

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organizations.

References

External links

Muscatatuck Urban Training CenterMuscatatuck Civilian Tactical Training
{{INMilitary, state=collapsed Military installations in Indiana Buildings and structures in Jennings County, Indiana