Human Capital Pillar Alignment To overcome challenges identified in the CWF Strategy, the Department is aligning our strategic goals and implementation efforts to four human capital management pillars. These pillars provide the foundation and set a unified direction to accomplish the goals laid out in the CWF Strategy. The four pillars are Identification, Recruitment, Development, and Retention and are defined further in this section. The CWF Strategy outlines the connections between data, the human capital pillars and the cyber workforce goals (see Figure 4). The Department needs to ensure that actions identified within this Implementation Plan are creating a positive impact on the human capital pillars, as they drive accomplishment of the outlined goals. Data provides the groundwork supporting accomplishment of these pillars. Everything the Department does depends on credible data to make decisions to positively support the cyber workforce. Defining the vision of success for each pillar and guiding KPIs to measure progress is imperative to help guide the Department’s actions. As part of action Figure 4: Human Capital Pillar Alignment planning efforts, OPRs and OCRs should consider how their assigned initiatives align to the human capital pillars and what KPIs will help determine success. Human capital pillar descriptions and KPIs that should be measured to understand the impacts of each pillar are detailed in this section. Because the human capital pillars provide the foundation to measure goal accomplishment, measuring KPIs at the pillar level will provide useful insights to gauge successful implementation of the CWF Strategy. Diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) underscore the efforts defined in the Implementation Plan in alignment with the DoD DEIA Strategic Plan for FY2022-FY20238. Through DEIA, the Department ensures the inclusion of cyber professionals with diverse backgrounds, skillsets and thought processes to enable a comprehensive perspective that fosters innovative solutions to cyber problems. The upcoming section, “Implementation Plan Initiatives, Roles and Responsibilities and Measurement,” indicates specific pillars individual initiatives align. This alignment illustrates the overlapping nature of the CWF Strategy goals as they are supported by the pillars. When developing action plans, OPRs and OCRs should reference the pillars identified for their assigned initiatives against the pillar KPIs noted in this section, as some may directly apply. DoD CIO will maintain oversight of the human capital pillar KPIs noted on the next page as part of Implementation Plan responsibilities. 2023-2027 Department of Defense Cyber Workforce Strategy - Implementation Plan Page 11