{"id":26257,"date":"2019-09-05T12:29:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T12:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2019\/09\/05\/the-army-wants-more-coders-alongside-operators\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:31:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:31:24","slug":"the-army-wants-more-coders-alongside-operators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/home\/2019\/09\/05\/the-army-wants-more-coders-alongside-operators\/","title":{"rendered":"The Army wants more coders alongside operators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Army has discovered that one of the keys to success in cyber operations is to embed tool developers and coders alongside operators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The military has long relied upon contractor support for coding and software development. However, in an operational environment that can change in milliseconds, forces need coders that can adjust to these changes in real time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen we built the mission force initially, it was this idea that we would pool the developers at a very central location. If you\u2019re on a team, you conduct an operation, you would send a problem up, they would work it and they would send it down,\u201d Lt. Gen. Stephen Fogarty, commander of Army Cyber Command, said Sept. 4 at the Billington cybersecurity conference in Washington. \u201cIn practice, that just doesn\u2019t work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, these coders, who are uniformed and civilian, will help build operational infrastructure, tools and applications, Fogarty said. <\/p>\n\n\n\t