Essay On Army Cyber Branch

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Michael Bryant
23March2015

Army Cyber Branch

The U.S Army Cyber Branch was created in September 2014, as one of the first official steps in establishing a seventeen-series career field specialty, dedicated to managing the careers and professional development of officers. Army Secretary John McHugh and Chief of Staff General Raymond Odierno approved the creation of the Cyber Branch in September 2014. The U.S. Army Cyber Commander capitalizes on existing U.S. Army cyber resources and improves operational readiness by organizing all cyber resources under a single command. The Network Enterprise Technology Command, the 9th Signal Command and the 1st Information Operations Command (Land) are subordinate units to the Army Cyber Command. Command …show more content…

For example, the state of Michigan will host one of the first three-cyber protection teams established by the National Guard. Cyber protection team members will begin their assignment with intensive specialized cyber training in order to qualify as Army Cyber Soldiers. These academically challenging cyber courses are planed for a four to twelve months in duration and are held in multiple locations, including beginning to intermediate levels of challenging instruction in the program. When fully trained, captain members will be responsible for conducting defensive cyberspace operations, readiness inspections, and vulnerability assessments, as well as a variety of other cyber roles and …show more content…

This Branch is basically the “new kids on the block”. The Commanders intent is to have about five thousand to six thousand soldiers in the Cyber branch. The writer has not found any current accurate number of soldiers in the Cyber Branch, however, it has been observed in all the articles, that Cyber Branch need more soldiers. One major reason is the lack of people in the United State with this skill-set. This problem is not just affecting the Army. Private sectors also having a harder time finding people in the United State to do these jobs. The U.S. government needs to met this growing cyber threat head on. One way the Cyber Branch may do this is by developing programs to enhance our soldier’s skills for cyber

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