Cyber/IT Workforce Strategic Plan Released
Published, July 16, 2010
The Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer has published the DON Cyber/IT Workforce Strategic Plan FY 2010-2013. This plan establishes the DON's priorities for ensuring workforce excellence. It identifies the goals and objectives that will allow the DON to recruit, manage, develop, sustain and retain a talented workforce.
Under the Clinger-Cohen Act and Federal Information Security Management Act, command information officers are responsible for Cyber/IT workforce planning. The DON Cyber/IT Workforce Strategic Plan details the strategy to develop a highly competent Cyber/IT total force that is capable of implementing, integrating, securing and executing sustained operations across the full cyberspace domain. The DON Cyber/IT Workforce Strategic Plan is the way forward to ensure the Department's efforts to provide the best support to the commands and to help members of the Cyber/IT Workforce achieve individual career goals.
The strategic plan goals are:
- Provide workforce capabilities that fully support cyberspace operations.
- Develop competency-based planning and management processes.
- Support required capabilities by recruiting a qualified and experienced workforce.
- Develop and manage the DON Cybersecurity/Information Assurance Workforce.
The DON Cyber/IT Workforce point of contact is the DON CIO director of Cyber/IT Workforce, Chris Kelsall;
chris.t.kelsall@navy.mil.