Comply with 8140 Training Requirements

WHAT IS DoD 8140?

The DoD Directive (DoDD) 8140 unifies the overall cyber workforce and establishes specific workforce elements, including information technology (IT), cybersecurity, cyber effects, cyber (intel), and cyber enablers. This directive aims to align, manage, and standardize cyber work roles, baseline qualifications, and training requirements. It establishes the DoD Cyberspace Workforce Framework (DCWF) as the authoritative reference for identifying, tracking, and reporting DoD cyberspace positions, serving as a foundation for developing enterprise baseline cyberspace workforce qualifications.

The goals of the 8140 Directive are to:

1. Provide a larger array of standards-based certification and training options based on 72 work roles that are currently defined.
2. Allow DoD workers to choose between certification and training options, such as well-defined work roles or assessment-based training for emerging technologies.
3. Attract, upskill, and retain an inclusive workforce and track progress, ensuring the DoD workforce reflects the diversity of skills, perspectives, and experiences found in the overall population.

DoD CYBER WORKFORCE FRAMEWORK

The DoD Cyber Workforce Framework (DCWF) establishes the DoD’s authoritative lexicon based on the work an individual is performing, not their position titles, occupational series, or designators. The DCWF describes the work performed by the full spectrum of the cyber workforce as defined in DoD Directive (DoDD) 8140. The DCWF leverages the original National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE), Cybersecurity Workforce Framework (NCWF), and the DoD Joint Cyberspace Training and Certification Standards (JCT&CS).

WORKFORCE ELEMENTS AND ASSOCIATED WORK ROLES

IT (Cyberspace): Personnel who design, build, configure, operate, and maintain IT networks and capabilities. This includes actions to prioritize implementing, evaluating, and disposing of resource management, storage, transmission, and display of data and information.

Cybersecurity: Personnel who secure, defend, and preserve data, networks, net-centric capabilities, and other designated systems through appropriate security controls and internal defense actions. This includes access to system controls, monitoring, administration, and integration of cybersecurity into all aspects of engineering and acquisition of cyberspace capabilities.

Cyberspace Effects: Personnel who plan, support, and execute cyberspace capabilities with the primary purpose to externally defend or conduct force projection in or through cyberspace.

Intelligence (Cyberspace): Personnel who collect, process, analyze, and disseminate information from all sources of intelligence on foreign actors’ cyberspace programs, intentions, capabilities, research and development, and operational activities.

Cyberspace Enablers: Personnel who support or facilitate the functions of cyber IT, cybersecurity, cyberspace effects, or intelligence workforce (cyberspace) roles. This includes actions to support acquisition, training, and leadership activities.

Software Engineering: Personnel who develop and code new or modify existing computer applications, software, or specialized utility programs, following software assurance best practices.

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