Mark Pomerleau
WASHINGTON — The Defense Department has released a highly anticipated plan to attract and retain cyber talent by better integrating US Cyber Command with other military departments for recruitment and training, and establishing three new organizations to improve the military’s hacking and defensive prowess.
Announced late Thursday, the new effort is light on details, but “fundamentally changes the Department’s approach to generating cyber forces, enabling increased lethality in our cyber forces and establishing a warrior ethos built on domain mastery, specialized skills, and mission agility,” said Katie Sutton, assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy, echoing the priorites of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
The three “enabling” organizations will be a Cyber Talent Management Organization to “identify, attract, recruit, and retain an elite cyber force”; an Advanced Cyber Training and Education Center to “develop mission-specific training and education to build expertise and mastery”; and a Cyber Innovation Warfare Center to “accelerate the rapid development and delivery of operational cyber capabilities.”
The plan is additionally based on seven “core attributes”:Targeted recruiting and assessments, seeking to assess recruits for the proper work role fit at US Cyber Command;
Incentives to recruit and retain top cyber talent;
Tailored and agile advanced training;
Tailored assignment management aiming to adopt career paths that enable the development and retention of cyber mastery
Specialized mission sets
Presented with headquarters and combat support; and
Optimized unit phasing that will support a sustainable operational tempo
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