DoD 8140 readiness
Ensure your cyber workforce meets defense requirements
Your agency needs a trusted partner to achieve DCWF readiness. Pluralsight ensures you build and validate workforce capabilities with:
Accredited training paths aligned to DCWF roles
Advanced skill measurement to benchmark proficiency
Actionable insights to guide workforce development
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Accredited training paths
Work with an accredited learning expert
Pluralsight offers curated, role-based paths aligned to the knowledge, skills, abilities, and tasks needed for DoD 8140 readiness and the DoD Cyberspace Workforce Framework (DCWF).
Grow capabilities. Prepare for the future of cyber defense.
Skill assessments
Prove your agency’s knowledge as you navigate DoD 8140 requirements. Learnes take skill assessment for targeted insights. Managers gain workforce readiness data to understand skills gaps and team progress.
Hands-on labs
Labs immerse teams in real-world, DoD 8140–aligned environments. This enables learners to build proficiency through experiential practice and apply skills with confidence.
Manager dashboards
Manager dashboards make it easy to track progress, identify gaps, and keep teams aligned to your goals. With ongoing support and guidance, your agency can continuously build skills and adapt to evolving requirements.
One central hub
From foundational qualifications to continuous education, Pluralsight simplifies workforce planning and compliance for DoD agencies to streamline learning and get them to where they need to go faster.
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DoD 8140 FAQs
DoD Directive 8140 defines the DoD cyber workforce and introduces the DCWF as the authoritative framework for identifying, tracking, and reporting cyber positions. The DCWF categorizes cyber work into seven workforce elements and 73 roles, each with defined tasks and required knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs).
Personnel assigned to DCWF-coded positions must meet:
- Foundational qualifications within nine months of assignment
- Resident qualifications within 12 months of assignment

Continuous professional development is also required to maintain qualifications.
Recognized trainings must be accredited and align with at least 70% of the DCWF work role responsibilities.
Pluralsight offers accredited training for the 14 work roles in the cybersecurity workforce element, meeting 100% of the KSAs defined in the DCWF for each work role. The DoD 8140 Qualification Matrices provide detailed mappings of certifications to work roles and proficiency levels.
Pluralsight programs accredited by the ANSI National Accreditation Board (ANAB) support the following DCWF work roles:
- Authorizing Official / Designating Representative (Work Role ID: 611)
- COMSEC Manager (Work Role ID: 723)
- Control Systems Security Specialist (Work Role ID: 462)
- Cyber Defense Analyst (Work Role ID: 511)
- Cyber Defense Forensics Analyst (Work Role ID: 212)
- Cyber Defense Incident Responder (Work Role ID: 531)
- Cyber Defense Infrastructure Support Specialist (Work Role ID: 521)
- Information Systems Security Developer (Work Role ID: 631)
- Information Systems Security Manager (Work Role ID: 722)
- Secure Software Assessor (Work Role ID: 622)
- Security Architect (Work Role ID: 652)
- Security Control Assessor (Work Role ID: 612)
- Vulnerability Assessment Analyst (Work Role ID: 541)
- System Testing and Evaluation Specialist (Work Role ID: 671)
Human resources and functional community managers should review position requirements and apply appropriate DCWF work role codes to military and civilian billets. The DCWF Workforce Coding and Identification Guide provides further information on coding positions.
Act now: DoD 8140 readiness is critical to your mission
Pluralsight cybersecurity training programs are accredited by the ANSI National Accreditation Board (ANAB) under the ANSI/ASTM E2659-18 standard for certificate programs.
Talk with our team to prepare your workforce for foundational qualification deadlines and future compliance requirements.
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