Qualifying Cyber Command Staff Is Harder Than You Think

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http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2014/04/cyber-warrior-training-no-easy-task/82498/

By Aliya Sternstein
Nextgov.com
April 14, 2014

The Coast Guard Cyber Command aims to qualify a couple of service members 
for what Pentagon officials have said will be a 2,000-member force within 
the next two years.

It will take all the military services a lot of time and money to get 
their members qualified for the force. For the Coast Guard, the task is 
even harder because it has no dedicated cyber school and splits its 
activities between defense and homeland security.

The two-person figure, provided by the Coast Guard's cyber chief, partly 
reflects the difficulty of instructing computer whizzes from various 
educational backgrounds to reach the same proficiency level. It takes 
resources.

"This is 26, 27 weeks long or longer -- months' worth --of training before 
they are qualified and ready to go," Rear Adm. Bob Day, commander of the 
Coast Guard CYBERCOM, told Nextgov. "We're investing millions" of dollars, 
he added.

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