It’s official, as per NAVADMIN 106/16…
UNCLASSIFIED
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R 101148Z MAY 16
FM CNO WASHINGTON DC
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INFO CNO WASHINGTON DC
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NAVADMIN 106/16
SUBJ/DESIGNATION OF THE CRYPTOLOGIC WARFARE COMMUNITY//
MSGID/NAVADMIN/CNO WASHINGTON DC/N2N6/MAY//
REF/A/MSG/CNO WASHINGTON DC/N2N6/021815ZFEB16//
AMPN/NAVADMIN 023/16, INFORMATION DOMINANCE CORPS REDESIGNATED
INFORMATION WARFARE COMMUNITY//
POC/WILSON/LTJG/OPNAV N2N6C1/-/TEL: (703) 604-6288
/EMAIL: CHRISTOPHER.WILSON(AT)NAVY.MIL//
RMKS/1. As discussed reference (a), officers with designators 181X, 681X, and 781X are designated as Cryptologic Warfare effective immediately.
2. From the establishment of the Communications Security Group, the cryptologic community has continued to evolve to meet and defeat the threats it faces. The transition of the Information Dominance Corps to the Information Warfare Community in concert with the Chief of Naval Operations Design for Maritime Superiority has given Cryptologists another opportunity to formalize this evolution and define community identity. The Cryptologic Warfare designation honors the cryptologic heritage, recognizes the military
effects these warfighters deliver, and aligns these officers along with Cyber Warfare Engineers, Cyber Warrant Officers, and Civilian personnel with their enlisted force.
3. Released By Vice Admiral Ted N. Branch, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare, OPNAV N2N6.//
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Station HYPO 
11 May 2016 at 11:20
Good to hear. Glad official message traffic was put out.
The message actually made rounds here at current duty station (me being the only 1810), hence (IMO) the importance of official methods of communication that are augmented by other methods.
Thanks Gentlemen for posting.
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12 May 2016 at 03:13
Throws out previous cheat sheet.
Time to make a new one.
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17 May 2016 at 18:51
The term “Cryptologic Community” would make sense, but “Cryptologic Warfare Community” is a stretch. Cryptology is
the study of codes, or the art of writing and solving them.
The Cryptologic Community provides cryptologic support to all warfare areas, including Information Warfare;and, in particular, Information Warfare in the cyber domain.
The Information Warfare community desperately needs a lexicon to allow successful communication. In its continued absence this quote by Lewis Carroll seems apt:
“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
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20 May 2016 at 12:41
The name change is nice, and thanks for everyone here who pushed for it. but can we talk about what we are doing with our career path? we had the OCM brief our WR recently, and lots of what he was putting out was hard to swallow. no use for LDOs (i know, separate discussion), and no use for non technical majors. he stated that he wont look @ OCS applicants w/o technical majors, and that “we know someone with a liberal arts background wont make a good CWO”. there are plenty of outstanding officers in our community and in other communities with all sorts of degrees. the best shipdriver and EOOW i ever knew was a theology major at notre dame. and, as one of the leaders in our community has told me, “this shit just aint that hard to learn”.
more concerning though was the vision of the career path for the future, which includes a tour at a big nioc followed by NPS for a STEM masters as the “gold standard”. so quite possible to do 5-6 years ashore before getting u/w or tactical, which to me is a joke.
i guess what i am wondering is where is the impetus coming from to craft a new career path that seems to be phasing out the idea of going tactical to support the Fleet? are we getting solid feedback from the Fleet on what it wants us to deliver, and this is the result? or is this the N2/N6-FCC revolving door/self licking ice cream cone @ work, with the common theme being a de-emphasis on sea time from those with little sea time?
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20 May 2016 at 21:51
What new career path have you heard about? The push for STEM degrees?
v/r
Chuck
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