and professionals, are expected to grow by 17 percent by the year 2018 compared to 9.8 percent for other jobs. (10) The Federal Government is experiencing a shortage of qualified professionals with expertise in computer and information security. (11) Insufficiently trained, educated, or supervised Federal computer workers can reduce the Nation’s ability to secure computer networks from cyber attacks or incidents. (12) The computing and information security workforce encompasses a variety of context, roles, and occupations and is too broad an diverse to be treated as a single occupation or profession. (13) Computing and information security is not solely a technical endeavor, and thus encompasses a wide range of backgrounds and skills that will be needed in an effective national computing and information security workforce. (14) The route toward professionalization of a field of study can be slow and difficult, and not all portions of a field can or should be professionalized at the same time. (15) It is essential, just as it is for other disciplines like medicine and the law, that academics, employers, and government share a common language to identify, train, educate, and employ computer and information security professionals. (16) The secure management of digital sensitive information collected maintained or transmitted by Federal Government agencies, including taxpayer data, Social Security records, medical records, intellectual property, proprietary business information, and sensitive Government data vital to national security and national defense requires an educated and well-trained, as well as supervised, Federal workforce. (17) It is in the Nation’s interest to promote opportunities for science and technology education and employment as a means of addressing the need to fill computer and information security jobs within the Federal Government. (18) The Department of Homeland Security’s role is to lead, champion, and sustain the development of a national information assurance, cybersecurity and computer