Component 4: Cybersecurity Workforce Training and Professional Development
Tri-Leads: DoD, ODNI, DHS
Develop and maintain an unrivaled, globally competitive cybersecurity workforce through the establishment, provision, setting or recommendation of standards and strategies for cybersecurity training and professional development for the nation’s workforce.
About:
Cybersecurity Workforce Training and Professional Development is led by the Department of Defense (DoD), Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The Component, in coordination with academia, industry, and State, Local, and Tribal governments, will identify the cybersecurity training and professional development required for the nation’s cybersecurity workforce. This team will be broken into four functional areas:
- Functional Area 1: General IT Use (Co-Leads: DHS, Federal CIO Council)
- Functional Area 2: IT Infrastructure, Operations, Maintenance, and Information Assurance (Co-Leads: DoD, DHS)
- Functional Area 3: Domestic Law Enforcement and Counterintelligence (Co-Leads: DOD/DC3; NCIX; DHS/USSS; DoJ)
- Functional Area 4: Specialized Cybersecurity Operations (Lead: NSA)
News and Activities:
- The White House announced that the nation’s computer network infrastructure will be defended as a national strategic asset, through the development of a cyber security office. Learn more....
- Twenty-seven Air Force ROTC cadets from universities across the nation will constitute the 2010 Advanced Course in Engineering, or ACE. This Cyber Security Boot Camp is a 10-week summer program at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Information Directorate, Rome, NY. The aim is to develop future cyber officers.
Go to http://www.wpafb.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123197848 for more information.
