{"id":29046,"date":"2023-02-15T23:01:57","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T23:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2023\/02\/15\/a-new-cyber-rating-is-in-the-works\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:55:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:55:29","slug":"a-new-cyber-rating-is-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/battlefield-tech\/c2-comms-battlefield-tech\/2023\/02\/15\/a-new-cyber-rating-is-in-the-works\/","title":{"rendered":"A new Navy \u2018cyber\u2019 rating is in the works"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SAN DIEGO \u2014 As U.S. Naval Information Forces continues to reform how it trains for and carries out its cyber missions, the command expects to announce an enlisted rating name change later this year that better reflects this vital work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Navy already has an existing cyber job rating, known as cryptologic technician networks, or CTN, a job that requires cyber skills 93% of the time, the head of Naval Information Forces, Vice Adm. Kelly Aeschbach, told reporters here Wednesday during the annual West naval conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But while the command is working to improve the cyber offensive training these sailors receive, plans are also underway to move CTNs out of the cryptologic series and give those approximately 1,900 CTNs in the fleet their own cyber rating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That new enlisted rating will also align with a new cyber officer designator that is in the works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aeschbach said the new cyber rating\u2019s name is still being determined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m talking to the master chiefs in the rating about what they want the name to be, and it\u2019s pre-decisional, but it will have cyber in its name,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\t