{"id":66423,"date":"2016-06-20T09:17:45","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T13:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66423"},"modified":"2016-06-20T09:17:45","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T13:17:45","slug":"the-pentagon-wants-to-hire-officers-off-the-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66423","title":{"rendered":"The Pentagon wants to hire officers off the street"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Military Times<\/a> reports that the Pentagon wants to hire civilians who have never been in the military off of the street in pay grades as high as O-6 to fill positions in career fields focused on cyber warfare and space;<\/p>\n

Some military officials fear that the demand for cyber operations is such that there\u2019s not enough time for the services to grow their own cyber force from the ground up. Under the military’s traditional personnel system, it might take more than a decade to cultivate the cyber capability that the Pentagon needs, some officials say.<\/p>\n

Currently, by law the Pentagon is limited to use lateral entry for chaplains, lawyers, doctors and dentists, and even for those career specialties, lateral entry is capped at the O-4 paygrade, or the rank of major and, in the case of the Navy, lieutenant commander.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, the Navy and Air Force are fully on board.<\/p>\n

The Navy, more than any of the other services, has pushed aggressively to expand lateral entry. Navy officials say it will help fill critical needs in existing career fields \u2014 but also to build new capability quickly in the event of a full-scale war.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now the one we\u2019re focused on is the cyber [community] because that\u2019s the immediate need,\u201d said Vice Adm. Robert Burke, the chief of naval personnel. \u201cBut we want this authority in place … because we want to be responsive when the need comes \u2014 we don\u2019t want to start writing policy the minute we discover we need it.\u201d<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

The Air Force is open to the idea of expanding lateral entries, particularly for people with cyber skills. \u201cWe\u2019re still exploring it,\u201d Brig. Gen. Brian Kelly, director of military force management policy, said during an interview in May. \u201cWe are looking at similar programs to what the Navy is talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n

An Air Force spokeswoman at the Pentagon added that lateral entries could have a positive impact on the culture. “We certainly see opportunity to create the kind of ‘ventilation’ and influx of ideas and talents that the secretary of defense has previously discussed,” Capt. Brooke Brzozowske wrote in a statement to Military Times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Once, I was in an infantry battalion stationed on an Air Force base and there was definitely a clash of cultures. But, more importantly, you’d think that Edward Snowden would be an example of such a hiring process gone awry. <\/p>\n

Thanks to HMC Ret and brian for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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