New Databank Will Help Address Cyber Skills Needs

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http://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/wired-workplace/2013/07/opm-creating-new-databank-cyber-skills/66332/

By Brittany Ballenstedt
NextGov.com
July 10, 2013

The Office of Personnel Management is calling on federal agencies to 
submit data on their cybersecurity workforce to help build a new databank 
for agencies in addressing current and future cyber skills needs.

In a memorandum issued Monday, OPM acting Director Elaine Kaplan pointed 
to a new special project that involves building a statistical data set of 
existing and future cybersecurity positions in the OPM Enterprise Human 
Resources Integration data warehouse by the end of fiscal 2014.

The data project will require agencies to update their cybersecurity 
positions with codes that review the definitions of and taxonomy used for 
cybersecurity work.

"This particular work function has extensively changed over the last 
decade, and these revisions provide consistency and a common language in 
describing the skill sets needed to perform the work successfully," Kaplan 
wrote.

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