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Creating a Full-spectrum Cyber Workforce for CJADC2

By Magdalena LoGrande, Cybersecurity Engineering Fellow, Sigma Defense

The Defense Department’s evolving cyber workforce framework, as outlined by the 8140 Program, offers
a perfect opportunity to reflect on its momentous alignment with CJADC2 objectives and to highlight the
foundational role of full-spectrum, cross-functional expertise to achieve its vision.

CJADC2 is an ecosystem of capabilities. It aims to connect military assets across all domains to enhance
decision-making and improve operational effectiveness, emphasizing interoperability and collaboration
with allies and partners. As a warfighting domain alongside land, sea, air and space, cyberspace needs
a robust and integrated cyber workforce.

This was underscored by Commander of Cyber Defense Command and DISA Director Lt. Gen. Paul
Stanton when he stated at the DoD Cyber Workforce Summit in April that “talent is our asymmetric
advantage.”

DoD 8140 codifies the cyber workforce as an ecosystem of expertise. It supports CJADC2 by outlining a
taxonomy of talent that deliberately encompasses “the entire cyberspace workforce, to include personnel
who build, secure, operate, defend, and protect DoD and U.S. cyberspace resources, conduct related
intelligence activities, enable future operations, and project power in and through cyberspace.”

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