Brandon Karpf
Train Navy Officers for Cyber Lethality (Source: USNI Proceedings)
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Brandon’s USNI Proceedings article calls out the Navy’s lack of a tactical cyber career path and lays out a six-month training pipeline that would keep cryptologic warfare officers lethal.
Key topics
- Cyber tours still don’t count as “tactical” billets, pushing top operators out of their specialty at the moment proficiency peaks.
- Existing curricula devote only a week to cyber topics, leaving officers unprepared for U.S. Cyber Command and NSA assignments.
- Brandon proposed a dedicated designator, new AQDs, and rigorous training modeled after the Air Force’s offensive cyber pipeline.
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