Civilian Cyber Workers in the U.S. Department of Defense: Demographics, Retention, and Responsiveness to Training Opportunities

Given the importance of the civilian workforce to the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) cyber mission, it is imperative to understand how pay, promotion, and retention have varied over time. After establishing that personnel outcomes vary across cyber occupations and differ from the outcomes for the rest of DoD, researchers explore how training might be used as a retention lever for cyber employees.