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Air Force

AF Cyber Strategy Director Explains Personnel Recruitment and Retention Issues

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015

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AF Cyber Strategy Director Explains Personnel Recruitment and Retention Issues

Brig. Gen. Patrick C. Higby, Director of Cyberspace Strategy and Policy, Office of Information Dominance and Chief Information Officer, U.S. Air Force. Photo: U.S. Air Force

Air Force cyber recruitment focuses on attitude then a language-like aptitude, the U.S. Air Force Chief information Officer (CIO) and Director of Cyberspace Strategy and Policy for the Office of Information Dominance said Thursday.“So I view it more through the lens like our language aptitude tests that we give today. So we don’t give a language test in a specific language. What we do is we give a language-like test to assess aptitude for learning a language,” Brig. Gen. Patrick…

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