5/3/2001 -- CompTIA acknowledged today that it is in the process of acquiring The Chauncey Group International's Certified Technical Trainer (CTT) certification.

CompTIA President and CEO John Venator mentioned the move in a speech to attendees of the International Technology Training Association's Strategies 2001 conference, held in Vancouver, Canada.

According to a CompTIA spokesperson, the CTT will be relaunched by CompTIA sometime this summer under the name CTT+. More details on the new certification will be released when all aspects of the transition have been finalized, the spokesperson said.

The CTT was launched by Chauncey in 1995, with the help of the ITTA and other industry organizations. It is one of the industry's only vendor-neutral technology trainer certifications.

This is just the latest acquisition for CompTIA, a U.S.-based industry organization that offers several vendor-neutral certifications, including A+ and Network+. In February, the company bought two certification programs from the GartnerGroup, relaunching them as e-Biz+ and Project+ just two months later. In March, members of the ITTA voted to join CompTIA as sub-organization.

CertCities will bring you more on this story as it develops. For more on CompTIA, click here. For more on The Chauncey Group, click here. -B.N.

5/08/01 Update: CompTIA has just posted more information about the CTT acqusition on its Web site. According to the site, it will take the new CTT+ live on July 2, 2001. For more details, click here. -B.N.