DCWF v5.1

DoD Cyber Workforce Framework (DoDD 8140)

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Published

May 8, 2026

At a glance

Steward DoD Chief Information Officer
Canonical page DoD Cyber Workforce Framework
Version 5.1
Released 2025-07-25
Aligned to NICE Framework
Source format DoD CIO Work Role Tool (XLSX)
License A US Government work prepared by DoD personnel, so not subject to copyright in the United States under 17 U.S.C. 105. The v5.1 workbook carries no distribution statement
framework_summary slug dcwf-v5.1

Structure in cybed: terms

DCWF structural mapping Frameworkdcwf:FrameworkWork roledcwf:WorkRole= cybed:Role= cybed:OrganizingUnitTaskdcwf:Task= cybed:RoleElementKSAdcwf:KSA= cybed:RoleElementcontainscybed:hasOrganizingUnithas elementcybed:hasElement
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Counts

Table 1
Measure Value
Work roles 74
Strict elements 2,945
Subpoints (parsed enumeration lists) 1,107
With-examples elements 4,052
Elements per work role, strict 39.8
Elements per work role, with-examples 54.8

DCWF has no cybed:Example nodes – its numbered statements carry no separate prose-embedded clarifications the way Cyber.org K-12 or CSTA do. But 1,107 of its Task/KSA statements phrase part of their content as an enumerated list (“including X and Y”, “(e.g., X, Y, and Z)”), and the uniform Subpoint parser splits those out the same way it does across the other 13 frameworks in the corpus, so strict and with-examples do not coincide here. This is DCWF’s second correction of the day: a parser bug fixed 2026-08-14 (a dead e.g. introducer pattern, plus a soft-wrap newline being read as a false sentence boundary) meant most of this framework’s (e.g., ...)-style enumerations were previously invisible to the Subpoint layer entirely. DCWF now carries the highest with-examples density of any framework in the corpus, ahead of NICE.

Provenance

Source

DoD Cyber Workforce Framework reference materials.

Ingestion

scripts/010-ingest-dcwf.R parses the source structure into the cybed schema.

License

A work of the United States Government prepared by DoD personnel, so not subject to copyright in the United States under 17 U.S.C. 105. The v5.1 workbook carries no distribution statement, so nothing in the artifact either grants or restricts distribution. The package does not bundle the source workbook. Users stage it locally.

Caveats

  • DCWF aligns to NICE and shares element identifiers across the two frameworks. Summing element counts across DCWF and NICE will double-count shared identifiers. Filter on framework_slug when summing.
  • The ingested data reflects the source export retrieved at ingestion time. Re-run the ingestion script against a newer export for subsequent versions.
  • DCWF is authoritative for the DoD cyberspace workforce, not the civilian side. Civilian federal and private-sector hiring pipelines that look DCWF-shaped typically map back through NICE.
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