August 26, 2015 CSM Rodney Harris, USA, Command Sergeant Major, U.S. Army Cyber Command

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“AMERICA’S ARMY: THE STRENGTH OF THE NATION”Army Strong
AMERICA’S ARMY: THE STRENGTH OF THE NATION
Leading a “High Tech” Workforce
CSM Rodney D. Harris
26 AUG 2015
OVERALL CLASSIFICATION:
Unclassified//FOUO

2. A Technologist
Looks at Policy
Jim Waldo

3. Tech is not one thing

4. Software and security
specialists

5. Top small percent

6. 10 to 100 times more
effective

7. If we are going to solve
this problem

8. These are the people
we need

9. Technology

10. Answers

11. Move fast

12. Change often

13. Ok to be wrong

14. Debates

15. Meetings

16. Plans

17. Compromise

18. Some things are easy

19. Some are not

20. Do policy makers
know?

22. How to learn

23. Gap

24. Highly technical

25. Talent differential

26. Rule breakers

27. Not good with authority

28. Curiosity

29. Don’t like barriers

30. Lock picking

31. Doesn’t fit the model

32. Wasn’t always so

33. Market

34. Research partner

35. Market too small

36. “Guaranteed” research

37. Outsourced

38. Unintended
consequences

39. Trust

40. Snowden

41. How We Train Soldiers

42. What We Think Cyber Mission Forces Are
Soldiers monitor networks in the Cyber Mission Unit Operations
Center.
US Army Cyberspace Operations & Integration
Center
JOEP Cyber Exchange ProgramUS Army Cyberspace Operations & Integration
Center

43. Cyber Operations at Echelons Corps
and Below
780th MI: CEMA cell talking with the Ambassador
780th MI: Network training on the roof of a building
Cyber Shield 2015; Computer Network Defense Team
Cyber Soldiers supporting a JRTC Excersize
Cyber Soldiers Supporting
the 75th Ranger Regiment

44. 6 Principles of Mission Command
• Build cohesive teams through mutual trust
• Create shared understanding
• Provide a clear commander’s intent
• Exercise disciplined initiative
• Use mission orders
• Accept prudent risk