Four Key Steps to Retaining Talent in the Information Warfare Community

摘要

The Navy Information Warfare Community (IWC) provides a vital, sophisticated capability to address increasingly dynamic and unpredictable threats around the world. The problem is the same skills and capabilities that make IWC personnel so valuable to the Navy also make them valuable to myriad firms in industry and organizations elsewhere beyond the Military Services. Moreover, such skills and capabilities are directly transferrable to industry, with numerous jobs offering considerably higher compensation levels. As a result, many talented information warriors are leaving the naval service at the midpoints of their military careers.