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The Coast Guard will welcome its first cyber graduates from its academy this week.
Outgoing Coast Guard Commander Adm. Karl Schultz told House lawmakers that the first graduates of the U. S. Coast Guard Academy were not a long time. U. S. officials with a primary in cybersecurity would emerge after the start scheduled for May 18.
After that, “a handful” will move to the headquarters of the Coast Guard’s Cyber Command for its initial project before going out to the box after a few years, Schultz told the House Homeland Security Subcommittee at a budget hearing on May 12.
“We will give them a cyber exposure. We’ll send them to some of our sector commands, where they’re passing by to bring their knowledge, their programmatic expertise to the field,” Schultz said. “We will send the rest of those young cyber professionals from the Coast Guard, some will go to sea, others will move to sectors, maybe they will go cyber, they are the next tour. So they’re thrilled with that. “
The military service created a new Cyber Mission Specialist qualification and a Cyber NcY speciality earlier this year so enlisted members can pursue careers in operations.
Schultz said the purpose of the cyber project specialist score is to bring existing guards who have reached the E-5 rank into other scores that still need cyber professionals.
Investing in cyber can cost “hundreds of thousands of dollars. So, we need to make those investments wisely,” he said, and he decided on other people in similar technical fields, such as electronics technicians, intelligence specialists and IT professionals.
The Coast Guard, which has put more emphasis on cybersecurity with an updated strategy and direct deployment of cyber personnel, also plans to form a third cyber coverage team as part of its budget plans for 2023, Schultz said.
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