While most of the US military is bracing itself for the belt-tightening that will come with scheduled budget cuts, Cyber Command is looking to expand, going from 900 members at present to an expected several thousand.
Most of the new jobs are slated to go to members of the military, whether active duty or reserves, with one fifth set aside for civilians. The new posts are expected to be fought over, as the skill set has the potential to be very transferable to the private sector when soldiers leave the military. The civilian hires, in turn, are an attempt to find people already skilled in this.
This hiring spree comes with the admission that, while there are people serving who know their way around code and viruses, the military hasn't quite found them yet, and their abilities may go underutilized. Expanding cyber command through a hiring initiative gives the Pentagon a way to bolster it's offensive cyber capabilities with some of its own. More broadly than that, expanding Cybercom by several thousand is the strongest sign yet that military officials are convinced this will be a new facet of war, and they want to make sure they're prepared.
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This article is great.
I will tell my friend Robot to apply; his career is electronics and more. Dan blocked robot from POPSCI, because he said his comment was off topic from his eye twitching article. Robot was opposing the use of pot on this article.
I haven't seen Dan in a while. He does love to write about beer and pot article and sometimes rant on his own articles.
I suppose he is off combating his twitching problem em
with some pot.
Super article for the government to create a department to hacking is great! I know Robot thinks so too.
I hope lots of people apply for these positions.
The government needs the best people to stop
all this HACKING!
Robot got blocked, YAY!!! It's about damn time! He's an idiot, quite like the person who posted above me.
Also Robot would never get this job, you have to have expertise in a field, which he didn't. The government also wouldn't want someone who posted on almost EVERY article on here, especially when most (>90%) of his posts were completely and utterly useless.
That is all.
haywall,
ROFL... Take care. ;)
I wondered what happened to Robot, but if he got blocked by Dan then Robot must have been doing somethings right.
Strengthening cyber defence is obviously the way to go.
At the risk of getting blocked, I'm going to say it...
From the look of the picture, it's no surprise CC is hiring. (I'm calling Cyber Command 'CC', because Cyber Command is a silly name and takes too long to type. Just trying to save time. Every little bit helps.)
How many CC employees does it take to plug in an Ethernet cable? Three. One to plug it in, another to watch and a third to take a picture to prove the other two were doing their jobs.
ppardee,
I know from real experience, the installation of networks and their multiply redundant assurances of protection with are 20 times more complicated, than what you stated.
I like Robot. He offered wide view of the articles; others would not dare to state. I liked his funny comments sometimes too.
I wonder of the writers and editors of POPSCI support free speech?
Space, I support a business's right to decide what topics are discussed on their forums while still supporting free speech in public forums.
And I was joking about the complexity of their jobs. As a software engineer and former computer tech, I know there's a lot more to network engineering than plugging a cable in. That being said, the dude behind the dude plugging in the cable is simply holding the end. He could be even more useful if he got the dude in the front a step stool instead of just standing around holding something that could simply be left dangling, OR if he had gotten the short dude a step stool, the cable wouldn't even hit the floor!
From a realistic view, the bulk of the first hires of CC shouldn't actually be military as planned, should it? No, troops, I ain't tryin to shoot you in the foot. It's just that the fact is that our current military systems people are the ones who are needing the private sector expertise, not the other way around.
When our government, especially military, starts these programs where our civilians are going to train them up in critical skills, they like to put the civilians in a scenario like this, where the same skilled people that are being cultivated will also be ignored.
Contoria,
To address your questions:
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1682.
Doesn't matter.
Jokes don't need to be factually accurate.
ppardee,
Your comments, "Doesn't matter".