This document discusses innovation and developing the Department of Defense (DoD) cyber workforce. It outlines eight interrelated practices for innovation, including sensing needs, envisioning solutions, offering new ideas, and adopting innovations. It provides examples of how the DoD has sensed a need to develop its cyber workforce and envisioned a mission and vision for a military cyber profession. The document also discusses sustaining innovations and executing, leading, and embodying practices to support innovation. It concludes by looking at both today's efforts and opportunities for the future to continue developing the DoD's cyber workforce through innovative practices.
3. Introduction
Army Strategist at the Naval Postgraduate School on an Army Cyber Scholarship
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Strategic
Ends
Innovative
Ways
Newfound
Means
4. What is Innovation?
“The adoption of a new practice in a community”
Dr. Peter Denning
The Innovator’s Way, 2010
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6. 8 Interrelated Practices
• The main work of invention
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1. Sensing
2. Envisioning
• The main work of adoption
3. Offering
4. Adopting
5. Sustaining
• The environment for the other practices
6. Executing
7. Leading
8. Embodying
8. Sensing
The development of the
cyber workforce is of paramount
importance to DoD.
- DoD Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace, 2011
The Army must also continue to
develop the future cyber force.
- Army Strategic Planning Guidance, 2013
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2011 European
Cyber Ball
DoD Uniformed Cyber Workforce
9. Envisioning
Example of Interactions Among Components of a Profession,
Ford and Gibbs, 1996
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10. Envisioning
Mission:
To develop the American
military cyber profession
and invest in the nation’s future
through STEM education
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11. Envisioning
Vision:
A military cyber profession that is accomplishing
what our nation needs, expects, and deserves:
• Our nation needs cyberspace secured and available for
economic, military, and private individual pursuits
• Our nation expects its military to work together as a team
• Our nation deserves a true profession dedicated to
developing cyberspace as a domain and national asset
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13. Offering
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With President-elect of the Association of Old Crows
With Commander, US Cyber Command
14. Adopting
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22 NOV 2013, Monterey: VADM (ret.) Route, President of the Naval Postgraduate School
presents the Order of Thor medal to Ed Fisher, USAF Lt. Col (ret.) on behalf of the MCPA.
Photo by Javier Chagoya
Excerpt from Dr. Denning’s book, The Innovator’s Way.
Component of a Profession. Gary Ford and Normal E. Gibbs, “A Mature Profession of Software Engineering,” Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Technical Report CMU/SEI-96-TR-004, 1996. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/96tr004.cfm, p. 7.
1. Collective Intelligence (from thesis)
The establishment of a new social network with learning and problem
solving at its essence makes possible deliberate decisions on designing an
environment which supports such activities. Inspiration was drawn from works on
amplifying collective intelligence, in which the author explains how groups can
use online tools to make themselves collectively smarter.44 Patters seen in the
amplification of collective intelligence include:
Increasing cognitive diversity and range of expertise
Modularizing collaboration
Reducing barriers to participation
Encouraging small contributions
Developing a rich and well-structured information commons4