MAJ Andrew Zitter

MAJ Andrew Zitter is an instructor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at the United States Military Academy (USMA), where he has taught since 2025. He serves as deputy director of the Cyber Science program and is the course director for CY355 Cyber Foundations – Computing.

He enlisted in the Washington Army National Guard in 2010 as a cavalry scout and commissioned into the Signal Corps in 2014 through the University of Washington Army ROTC program, branch detailed to the Infantry. He transferred to Functional Area 26A (network systems engineer) in 2018. He is a graduate of the Basic Airborne Course and the Infantry Basic Officer Leader Course at Fort Benning, Georgia, and the Signal Captains Career Course and the Network Systems Engineer Course at Fort Gordon, Georgia.

Zitter began his career in the 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where he served as assistant S-3, rifle platoon leader, company executive officer, and assistant S-6. He next served as network management branch chief at the U.S. Army Regional Cyber Center - Korea at Camp Walker, South Korea during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. He then held a series of assignments with the 704th Military Intelligence Brigade at Fort Meade, Maryland at the National Security Agency.

In the classroom, he focuses on bringing abstract cyber concepts into the physical world through demonstrations and hands-on learning. His research interests include autonomous systems security, drone swarm orchestration, and network engineering. He has two published works on cyber security for autonomous drones and ships.

Outside of the classroom, he is the officer in charge of the CyberTech club and dabbles in robotics, programming, and carpentry. He is married to his wife, Lenna, and is the proud father of two sons, Philip and Timothy.