National Cyber Force Offers Bursaries Amid ‘Battle for Digital Talent’

General Jim Hockenhull, head of Strategic Command, described Britain as being involved in an “ongoing cyber Olympics” against its digital adversaries.
National Cyber Force Offers Bursaries Amid ‘Battle for Digital Talent’
The Strategic Command's stand at the DSEI exhibition at ExCel in Custom House, London on Sep. 12, 2023. Chris Summers/The Epoch Times
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LONDON—The head of the Armed Forces’ Strategic Command, General Jim Hockenhull, has announced 100 new digital bursaries as Britain seeks to recruit some of the best young brains in the country to work on the National Cyber Force (NCF).

Announcing the pilot project at the DSEI defence exhibition in London on Tuesday, Gen. Hockenhull said the Ministry of Defence suffered six million cyber attacks last year and he said the armed forces needed to win the “battle for digital talent.”
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