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Innovation and Developing the DoD Cyber Workforce:

A Case StudyMajor Joe Billingsley

National Defense University30 September 2014

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Agenda

• Introduction• Innovation• Structure• Invention• Adopting• Today• Tomorrow• Takeways

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Introduction

Strategic Ends

Innovative Ways

NewfoundMeans

Army Strategist at the Naval Postgraduate School on an Army Cyber Scholarship

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What is Innovation?

“The adoption of a new practice in a community”Dr. Peter DenningThe Innovator’s Way, 2010

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What does the innovator need?

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• The main work of invention1. Sensing2. Envisioning

• The main work of adoption3. Offering4. Adopting5. Sustaining

• The environment for the other practices6. Executing7. Leading8. Embodying

8 Interrelated Practices

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The main work of invention

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Sensing

The development of thecyber workforce is of paramount importance to DoD.

- DoD Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace, 2011

The Army must also continue to develop the future cyber force.

- Army Strategic Planning Guidance, 2013

2011 European Cyber Ball

DoD Uniformed Cyber Workforce

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Envisioning

Example of Interactions Among Components of a Profession, Ford and Gibbs, 1996

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Envisioning

Mission: To develop the Americanmilitary cyber profession

and invest in the nation’s futurethrough STEM education

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Envisioning

Vision:A military cyber profession that is accomplishing

what our nation needs, expects, and deserves:• Our nation needs cyberspace secured and available for

economic, military, and private individual pursuits• Our nation expects its military to work together as a team• Our nation deserves a true profession dedicated to

developing cyberspace as a domain and national asset

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The main work of adoption

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Offering

With President-elect of the Association of Old Crows With Commander, US Cyber Command

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Adopting

22 NOV 2013, Monterey: VADM (ret.) Route, President of the Naval Postgraduate School presents the Order of Thor medal to Ed Fisher, USAF Lt. Col (ret.) on behalf of the MCPA.

Photo by Javier Chagoya

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Sustaining

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The environment for the other practices

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This is what we do

• Executing

• Leading

• Embodying

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Today

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Tomorrow

• Organization

• Programs

• Events

• Research

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Innovation can be…

• Very relevant

• Not mysterious

• Hard work

• Fun

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Questions