GAO on federal cyber workforce shortfalls

A key component of the government’s ability to deal with cyber threats is a right-sized and effective federal and contractor cyber workforce. To plan well, agencies need to accurately track their cyber workforce resources. They must also evaluate their efforts to build and maintain cyber workforces.

However, most of the 23 agencies in a Government Accountability Office review could not tell the watchdog the size and cost of their cyber workforce. Their tallies of at least 63,934 federal and 4,151 contractor staff at an annual cost of $14.6 billion were incomplete.

Most agencies did not evaluate the effectiveness of their workforce initiatives.

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