How many personnel in the Department of Defense (DoD) can create and use com-puter code? Using what coding languages? How well? These are straightforward questions, but the answers are unknown, particularly to the personnel management system. The answers could also be a critical part of solving one of the DoD’s thorniest problems: filling the ranks of the US military’s cyber forces.
In an increasingly cyber-dependent and volatile world with fierce recruitment competition from the private sector, the DoD needs to be more creative in recruiting, training, and retaining cyber talent. To date, the primary focus of the DoD has been attracting cyber talent from outside. However, as the DoD is America’s largest employer with 2.91 million employees, it is essential that it also recruits internally to see if already hired personnel can fulfill DoD cyber talent needs.
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