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 Public domain (works of the United States Government)
framework_summary slug dcwf-v51

Structure in cybed: terms

DCWF structural mapping Framework dcwf:Framework Work role dcwf:WorkRole = cybed:Role = cybed:OrganizingUnit Task dcwf:Task = cybed:RoleElement KSA dcwf:KSA = cybed:RoleElement contains cybed:hasOrganizingUnit has element cybed:hasElement
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Counts

Measure Value
Work roles 74
Strict elements 2,945
With-examples elements 2,945
Elements per work role 39.8

DCWF encodes detail entirely in numbered statements. The strict and with-examples counts coincide because the ingestion has no prose-embedded clarifications to promote into separate cybed:Example nodes.

Provenance

Source

DoD Cyber Workforce Framework reference materials.

Ingestion

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

License

Works of the United States Government are in the US public domain.

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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