Agencies fall behind on cybersecurity workforce coding, GAO says

FedScoop: The process federal agencies are supposed to use to categorize and account for cybersecurity workforce skills gaps has been hobbled by missed deadlines and reporting shortfalls, the Government Accountability Office has found.

The Office of Personnel Management fell behind schedule on establishing a coding structure to track the cybersecurity positions within the federal government, causing a domino effect of delays, according to a GAO report examining the how agencies are complying with the Federal Cybersecurity Workforce Assessment Act of 2015.

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