Cybersecurity: An Island of Growth in a Sea of Sequestration

Earlier this week, the US Department Of Defense made the type of announcement that is becoming increasingly rare during this current era of lean budgets: a massive expansion to one part of it's workforce. More specifically, as reported in the Washington Post, the Pentagon has approved a fivefold expansion to the DoD's Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM), taking the unit from it's current 900 troops and civilians to around 4,900 over the next few years.