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title: Tapping the MRAP Model for DOD Acquisition | John Sherman on CX | Cyber Workforce Model
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# [Tapping the MRAP Model for DOD Acquisition | John Sherman on CX | Cyber Workforce Model](https://fedgovtoday.com/podcast/2024/01/10/tapping-the-mrap-model-for-dod-acquisition-john-sherman-on-cx-cyber-workforc-model)

 Written by [montecristomedia](https://fedgovtoday.com/podcast/author/montecristomedia) | Jan 10, 2024 5:00:00 AM

  

A new National Defense Industrial Strategy is coming from the Pentagon any day now. [The model to operationalize that strategy already exists in the MRAP story](https://breakingdefense.com/2024/01/how-to-use-the-mrap-mindset-to-get-us-industrial-base-on-a-wartime-footing/), according to [Jerry McGinn](https://www.gmu.edu/profiles/jmcginn5). He’s Executive Director of the [Baroni Center for Government Contracting](https://business.gmu.edu/centers/center-government-contracting) at [George Mason University](https://www.gmu.edu/), and former Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manufacturing and Industrial Base. He’s [writing about it in Breaking Defense](https://breakingdefense.com/2024/01/how-to-use-the-mrap-mindset-to-get-us-industrial-base-on-a-wartime-footing/), and tells you why the MRAP story is worth watching.

 

The Chief Information Officer of the Defense Department, [John Sherman](https://www.defense.gov/About/Biographies/Biography/Article/2881098/john-sherman/), is [launching a new user experience initiative](https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2023/12/dodiis23-dod-takes-steps-improve-aging-technology) across the department. It’s part of the response to the “[Fix Our Computers](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/michaeljkanaan_technology-future-innovation-activity-6891726752759074816-2qCv/)” complaints from DOD employees. At DODIIS 2023, I asked John Sherman how the initiative will work, and what he wants to accomplish.

 

 

 

A new [Cyber Workforce Development Institute](https://www.meritalk.com/articles/white-house-working-with-congress-on-cyber-workforce-institute/) is coming from the Office of the National Cyber Director. The White House says ONCD is working with agencies to prepare them for what’s coming. [Jordan Burris](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-burris-60588a70) is Vice President for Public Sector Strategy at Socure, and former Chief of Staff in the Office of the Federal Chief Information Officer. I ask him what he sees ahead for building the federal cyber workforce.

 

 

 

 

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