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C O R P O R AT I O NQUENTIN E.HODGSON,CHARLES A.GOLDMAN,JIM MIGNANO,KARISHMA R.MEHTAEducating for Evolving Operational DomainsCyber and Information Education in the Department of Defense and the Role of the College of Information and CyberspaceResearch ReportFor more information on this publication,visit www.rand.org/t/RRA1548-1.About RANDThe RAND Corporation is a research organization that develops solutions to public policy challenges to help make communities throughout the world safer and more secure,healthier and more prosperous.RAND is nonprofit,nonpartisan,and committed to the public interest.To learn more about RAND,visit www.rand.org.Research IntegrityOur mission to help improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis is enabled through our core values of quality and objectivity and our unwavering commitment to the highest level of integrity and ethical behavior.To help ensure our research and analysis are rigorous,objective,and nonpartisan,we subject our research publications to a robust and exacting quality-assurance process;avoid both the appearance and reality of financial and other conflicts of interest through staff training,project screening,and a policy of mandatory disclosure;and pursue transparency in our research engagements through our commitment to the open publication of our research findings and recommendations,disclosure of the source of funding of published research,and policies to ensure intellectual independence.For more information,visit www.rand.org/about/research-integrity.RANDs publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of its research clients and sponsors.Published by the RAND Corporation,Santa Monica,Calif.2022 RAND Corporation is a registered trademark.Cover:DOD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Daniel Hinton.Data:matejmo/Getty Images/iStockphoto.Cover design by Rick Penn-Kraus.Limited Print and Electronic Distribution RightsThis publication and trademark(s)contained herein are protected by law.This representation of RAND intellectual property is provided for noncommercial use only.Unauthorized posting of this publication online is prohibited;linking directly to its webpage on rand.org is encouraged.Permission is required from RAND to reproduce,or reuse in another form,any of its research products for commercial purposes.For information on reprint and reuse permissions,please visit www.rand.org/pubs/permissions.iii About this Report In the Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act,Congress directed the U.S.Department of Defense(DoD)to submit a report that explained plans to close the College of Information and Cyberspace(CIC)at the National Defense University and the departments needs for cyberspace and information education.The department submitted a report in April 2021 addressing the plans for CIC and concluding that more work was needed to address the broader question of the departments educational needs.The Office of the Secretary of Defense,Cyber Policy,tasked the National Defense Research Institute at RAND to conduct a broader study on these educational needs and the role that CIC should play in meeting them in the future.This report examines how DoD educational institutions are approaching education in cyberspace and the information environment and the potential demand for this education at the Joint Professional Military Education Phase II and graduate levels.The report then evaluates CICs missions and options for adapting its governance to meet current and future educational needs.The research reported here was completed in September 2022 and underwent security review with the sponsor and the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review before public release.RAND National Security Research Division This research was sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense,Cyber Policy,and conducted within the Forces and Resources Policy Center of the RAND National Security Research Division(NSRD),which operates the National Defense Research Institute(NDRI),a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense,the Joint Staff,the Unified Combatant Commands,the Navy,the Marine Corps,the defense agencies,and the defense intelligence enterprise.For more information on the RAND Forces and Resources Policy Center,see www.rand.org/nsrd/frp or contact the director(contact information is provided on the webpage).Acknowledgments We thank the faculty and staff at each of the Department of Defense schools of higher education who were generous with their time and provided data.We are particularly grateful to Dr.Cassandra Lewis,Chancellor of the College of Information and Cyberspace,for her enthusiastic support and engagement,and to Dr.Bryon Greenwald,Deputy Provost of the National Defense University,for his assistance.We thank Mieke Eoyang,Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy,for her engagement and support,and Scott Lewis,iv Dr.Gary Schaub,and Dr.Eric Russi.