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DoD has a new plan to apply enterprise-wide talent management to its cyber workforce

The new strategy identifies four pillars for improvement between now and 2027, but full details won’t be released until the publication of a forthcoming…

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CMS cyber chief puts focus on ‘soft skills’ in the cybersecurity field

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Forthcoming national cyber strategy highlights 2023 cybersecurity agenda

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Better data, training, hiring processes are key to cyber workforce strategy, groups say

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One potential job for the national cyber director? Fix the cyber workforce problem

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Data will be key to building national cyber workforce strategy, officials say

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FILE - This Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, file photo shows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration building behind FDA logos at a bus stop on the agency's campus in Silver Spring, Md. On Friday, Sept. 24, 2021, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly asserting that experts with the Food and Drug Administration revealed that the COVID-19 vaccines are killing at least two people for every person they save. But FDA experts did not say this, and strongly refuted this false claim in an email to The Associated Press. A speaker who is not affiliated with the FDA made these statements during the open public hearing portion of a Sept. 17 FDA vaccine advisory panel meeting. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

FDA takes hands-on approach to upskill workforce under data modernization action plan

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Does Homeland Security have too much discretion in hiring cybersecurity people?

DHS’ recent rulemaking for a 2014 law gives the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency a lot of discretion in hiring cybersecurity people.

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Collins used CISO role to drive cyber deeper into SSA’s mission areas

Collins, who recently left after four years as the chief information security officer at the Social Security Administration, said one of his biggest accomplishments…

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FILE - In this Dec. 23, 2015 file photo, a U.S. service member salutes her fallen comrades during a memorial ceremony for six Airmen killed in a suicide attack, at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan. ter 20 years America is ending its “forever” war in Afghanistan. There’s conflicting views even among U. S. military minds as to  whether the time is right. For others there is another lingering question: Was it worth it? (Tech. Sgt. Robert Cloys/U.S. Air Force via AP)

Increase in military suicide rates continues troubling trend

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Defense Department is seeing troubling new figures in military suicide rates.

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