After cuts to DoD’s cyber workforce, experts see short-term readiness risks, but also opportunity

In the months since the US government embarked on an unprecedented downsizing of the federal workforce spearheaded by the Department of Government Efficiency, tens of thousands of government employees have been shown the door, including civilians in the digital trenches at the Pentagon’s cyber agencies.

It’s a move that senior DoD officials have said publicly offers the opportunity to “ruthlessly realign,” as Lt. Gen. Paul Stanton, the head of the Defense Information Systems Agency and the DoD Cyber Defense Command said in May. 

But experts told Breaking Defense that while they mostly have faith in the long-term prospects of America’s cyber workforce and its current leadership, the disruption is likely to increase risk in the short term, both from external adversaries and for internal morale.

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