{"id":16407,"date":"2019-11-29T11:00:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2019\/11\/29\/how-defense-digital-service-revamped-army-cyber-training\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:55:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:55:58","slug":"how-defense-digital-service-revamped-army-cyber-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/home\/2019\/11\/29\/how-defense-digital-service-revamped-army-cyber-training\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Defense Digital Service revamped Army cyber training"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Earlier this year, the Defense Digital Service \u2014 the Pentagon\u2019s cadre of coders and hackers performing a short stint in government \u2014 finished the second phase of a pilot program to streamline cyber training for the Army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Army wanted to streamline two phases of cyber training: the Joint Cyber Analytics Course, or JCAC, which takes 27 weeks in Pensacola, Florida, and provides basic cyber training for joint forces that have no prior experience in cyber; and the more tactical training that happens at Fort Gordon in Georgia. Combined, the two phases take a minimum of 36 weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To accomplish this, the Defense Digital Service, working with the Army Cyber Center of Excellence and a private vendor, built a course to conduct training in three months \u2014 everything a cyberwarrior needed to know from JCAC, said Clair Koroma, a bureaucracy hacker at DDS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phase two \u2014 which combines tactics involving hardware, offensive and defensive cyber, and networking \u2014 takes seven months. It excluded the classified course, Koroma added.<\/p>\n\n\n\t