
Evan Vucci/AP
Initiatives include cyber aptitude assessments for agency insiders and a Presidents Cup cybersecurity competition.
The White House launched its latest effort to bolster the governments cybersecurity workforce.
President Trump issued an executive order Thursday that introduces new initiatives and expands existing national efforts aimed to grow and strengthen Americas cyber workforce. The programs laid out in the order will help better standardize cross-government language around cybersecurity, incentivize engagement from academia and federal agencies, and accelerate learning to address the nations urgent need to fill the cyber workforce gap.
More than 300,000 cybersecurity job vacancies exist in the United States today, President Trump said in a statement. They must be filled to protect our critical infrastructure, national defense, and the American way of life.
Senior administration officials noted that the order begins to address the challenge of ensuring that cybersecurity professionals have mobility into and outside of federal government and industry.
"United States Government policy must facilitate the seamless movement of cybersecurity practitioners between the public and private sectors, maximizing the contributions made by their diverse skills, experiences, and talents to our Nation," the order said.
The administration is also creating a federal rotational program in which feds can expand their expertise through temporary cyber-related assignments within other agencies, in hopes that new exposure will increase skills and encourage interagency knowledge transfers. The program mirrors a bipartisan bill that the Senate passed this week, which enables some cyber professionals to rotate across various agencies.
The order establishes a Presidents Cup cybersecurity competition that will challenge and reward the governments top cyber personnel. The new competition is still in its planning process, officials said, but its being modeled off of other national collegiate cyber contests.
Officials said the order will also help agencies identify and implement aptitude assessments that will help re-skill employees who exude potential.
The order will also introduce new awards programs that will recognize government personnel who have made significant contributions to cybersecurity or cyber operations. It will also establish the Presidential Cybersecurity Education Awards to celebrate elementary and secondary school educators teaching cybersecurity-related content.
In an effort to get government insiders on the same page around cyber practices and language, the order also encourages the widespread adoption of the National Institute of Standards and Technologys National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education, or NICE framework, which serves as a reference for identifying, recruiting, developing, and retaining cybersecurity talent.
Officials also said they hope that diversification within the cyber workforce will become a natural byproduct of this effort and that they also hope to increase pay scales to better meet the market demand for high-skilled cyber workers.
America built the internet and shared it with the world; now we will do our part to secure and preserve cyberspace for future generations, the president said.
Poster Comment:
300,000 internet moderators urgently needed to keep an eye on you.

#1: GreyLmist To: hondo68 (#0)
Excerpts from the above-linked report [May 1, 2019]:
Archiving because of a recent obsesrvation that an American employee of the Federal Post Office (who evidently wasn't a
newly hired trainee) was not allowed to use a computer at all, even to help with a customer question. It was also observable
that most likely every American-born citizen employed by the Post Office in this country had not been considered a
"qualified" enough applicant to operate a desktop computer for a Supervisory Management opening there; which was given to
a surly "selectee" with a foreign accent indicating that they had arrived rather recently from the region of India or Pakistan:
Trump to overhaul visa program for high- skilled workers | TheHill | 04/17/17 | Excerpts:
How INDIANS will be affected if US changes H1B visa rules. - YouTube, 5.75 minutes | Published on Feb 1, 2017 by WILD ENGINEER
Trump H1B visa 130K Problem SOLVED (English) - SOLUTION explained in 5 minutes - YouTube, 5.75 minutes | Published
on Feb 26, 2017 by Radiant Lead
============
Some Visa info @ Wikipedia:
American Competitiveness in the 21st Century Act [2000] - to increase the effective number of visas available and make it
easier for workers on those visas to switch jobs. [Translation: A Clinton era law ordering Americans to compete with more
Foreign Workers.]
H-1B Visa Reform Act of 2004 and L-1 Visa Reform Act of 2004
H-1B visa
L-1 visa
O visa
EB-1 visa - unlike most EB-2 and EB-3 applicants, [EB-1s] don't have to go through the "labor certification" process.
[Wikipedia has no EB-4 Visa/Green Card category for special immigrants but does have this link for the EB-5 Investor Visa.]
GreyLmist posted on 2019-05-12 16:05:38 Reply Private Reply