February 12, 2026 at 7:15 PM
CYBERCOM 2.0 could provide lessons for how Navy identifies tech talent
The Navy and other services are still working through how they will support the CYBERCOM 2.0 implementation.
Sailors assigned to Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command monitor, analyze, detect and respond to unauthorized activity within U.S. Navy information systems and computer networks. NCDOC is responsible for around the clock protection of the Navy's computer networks, with more than 700,000 users worldwide.
WEST 2026 — Cyber Command 2.0 will provide “exciting initiatives” that can be replicated for Navy service personnel in cybersecurity or IT roles, according to a top official. “One thing that I’m really going to focus on over the next year is Cyber Command 2.0 or the revised cyber force generation model implementation plan … I’m really interested in taking what we learn as we start to implement that and looking at how that translates not just to the force generation that I’m providing to Cyber Command, but for force generation writ large,” Anne Marie Schumann, principal cyber adviser of the Navy, said in an interview here at the WEST conference. That plan, first unveiled in November, aims to improve how the cyber mission force personnel that each service provides to CYBERCOM are developed and trained with the goal of achieving “mastery.” CYBERCOM 2.0 provides a chance to question everything and think creatively about how to shape CYBERCOM’s missions as well as Navy retained missions, Schumann noted.