The Department is collaborating with other government agencies, industry and academia to address the cyber talent pipeline challenge. While working collaboratively with these entities, the DoD faces fierce competition within the labor market to secure the necessary highly skilled experts from the Nation’s finite talent sources. In light of this competition, the Department must foster an environment of innovation coupled with cutting-edge technology to produce and enable a world-class workforce ready to meet all current and future cyber challenges. Finally, this strategy must incorporate the disparate workforce supporting DoD within the evolving and expanding cyber domain. Cyber work roles are performed by a mix of DoD civilian employees in the competitive service and excepted service, military officers and enlisted personnel and contracted support personnel. This strategy must drive unity of effort across organizations. Specific actions describing the required coordination will be included in the forthcoming implementation plan in support of this strategy. 7