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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