The Defense Department may want thousands of new cyber experts added to its workforce, but experts say the agency lacks any credible means of training that many recruits, and there aren't enough already trained to meet the need. Several reports surfaced recently citing senior Pentagon officials who described the coalescing of a plan to add about 4,000 cyber experts to the department's payroll. The problem: The department doesn't have the schools in place to train that many people, the university system isn't turning out enough experts who can get security clearances, and neither has developed a technique to identify those with the right mindset to be truly capable. The outlines of the plan being kicked around the Pentagon entail forming a trio of groups: Cyber National Mission Forces, Cyber Combat Mission Forces and Cyber Protection Forces. DoD has settled on that arrangement of talent, but the specifics are still up in the air.
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