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Cyber

GAO: Cyber Mission Force Teams Require Improved Training

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, March 6th, 2019

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GAO: Cyber Mission Force Teams Require Improved Training

U.S. Army Cyber Command Soldiers conduct operations in the ARCYBER headquarters at Fort Belvoir, Va. (Photo by Robert Bills)

A new Government Accountability Office report calls on the service cyber components, specifically the Army and Air Force, to improve training processes for their cyber forces to avoid further gaps in readiness. The report, released Wednesday, recommends developing a plan to identify new training requirements with U.S. Cyber Command as the services transition from building to maintaining their Cyber Mission Force teams, noting that current efforts lack a set timeline to validate personnel. “DoD has begun to shift focus from…

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