✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-06-20
🪖 + 🧑💻 The story that caught my eye this week was the US Army Reserve’s Detachment 201.
https://www.techmeme.com/250613/p10#a250613p10
At SXSW 2024, I attended a fireside chat on “Cyber Talent in the Era of Great Power Competition“. The talk was interesting and I took a few notes in my Obsidian.
Here’s the YouTube video:
My notes:
77% of our youth is ineligible to serve
Propensity to Serve is key.
SCIF work is the workplace.
Hotspots exist.
If that exists it can now enable a unique talent for no uniform roles as part of an attractive benefits, work flexibility, competitive compensation, and retention bonuses.
Total compensation package to go full uniform is differentiated through healthcare and savings plans for military.
As of late 2023, Constructive Service Credit expansion includes R&D (up to Colonel) to solve big challenges.
Off ramp and on ramp paths are becoming more flexible.
Cyber and intelligence will be drawn from industry.
Find us and we will find a way for you to serve.
Example: Civilian to OTS to Major is 10 years and this approach does it in 6 months.
