The GapApp: Matching Military Occupations and Civil Jobs in Cyber Security for Women

This paper describes the activities and results of a George Washington University – USA Department of Defense Cyber Scholarship Program capacity building project during the 2022 academic year. In particular, the report provides information about the design and development of the GapApp, an application based on the outcome recommendations of the May 2021 conference. The GapApp is intended to streamline and to make accessible the multitude of competing information streams for careers, especially in the high demand field of cyber security to active women military nearing separation from the service. The existing workforce role and skill taxonomies in cyber security and military were studied, a technique for mapping one to another and evaluating the match was proposed. A working pilot application on a platform that can be ported to a mobile phone was successfully demonstrated.