Army Struggles To Man New Cyber/EW Units: GAO
As it races to modernize, the service may be creating new formations faster than it can train the technical specialists to staff them.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on August 16, 2019 at 4:26 PM
WASHINGTON: Two elite Army cyber/electronic warfare units — critical components of its plans for high-tech war — have struggled to fill their ranks, the Government Accountability Office reported Thursday. As of March, only 18 percent of the required personnel were in place at the 915th Cyber Warfare Support Battalion (CWSB) in Fort Gordon, Ga. On the opposite coast, at Fort Lewis, Wa., the Intelligence, Information, Cyber/Electronic Warfare, & Space (I2CEWS) battalion had managed to reach 55 percent manning, up from 32 percent at its creation in October last year.
Of course, the GAO data is out of date. Have things improved? So far, I haven’t gotten updated figures from the Army, nor any official statement on the report. But the informal, off-record reaction I’ve heard from people in the Pentagon boils down to: Really?
https://breakingdefense.com/2019/08/army-struggles-to-man-new-cyber-ew-units-gao/
