One hurdle is that participants must be U.S. citizens. Right off the bat, that eliminates more than 70 percent of those receiving master’s degrees in computer engineering at U.S. schools, he says.
Another factor: The government can’t offer as much pay as the private sector. An online posting for a cyber-analyst job at the Federal Bureau of Investigation in early 2013—there aren’t any more current listings on the federal government’s job site—advertised a salary of $33,979 to $54,028.
A listing this month for an information security specialist in the U.S. Marine Corps’s cybersecurity division gave a range of $89,924 to $116,901 a year.
That’s just not competitive, particularly for people with in-demand technical skills in malicious software analysis and reverse engineering, according to Golden Richard, a professor with the University of New Orleans Information Assurance Program.
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The U.S. Government Wants 6,000 New 'Cyberwarriors' by 2016
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