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Office of the DOW CIO Unveils Brand-New AI-Enabled Online Platform

Defense officials expect to use the Curriculum Alignment Tool for cybersecurity training purposes.

Matthew Isnor, division chief, Cyber Workforce Development, Office of the DOW Chief Information Officer, discusses a capable and ready cyber workforce at TechNet Augusta in Augusta, Georgia, August 18, 2026.

Office of the Department of War Chief Information Officer (DOW CIO) leaders have released their Curriculum Alignment Tool (CAT), Matthew Isnor, division chief of cyber workforce development at the Office of DOW CIO, announced today at TechNet Augusta 2026.

The capability will serve as a digital bridge for cybersecurity training by analyzing course curricula, training programs and personnel certifications, according to the Office of the DOW CIO officials. More specifically, CAT can track and pinpoint training programs and courses directly to individual roles within the DOW Cyber Workforce Framework while including the recommended proficiency level and guaranteeing that all training programs and courses satisfy the relevant official standards required of DOW personnel. By providing these capabilities, the brand-new artificial intelligence-enabled online platform enhances readiness among the cyber workforce, per the Office of the DOW CIO staff.

The traditional process of carrying out related tasks could take several months. CAT opens the door for crews to complete the same assignment in a few weeks, according to Isnor.

“This is a long time coming,” Isnor said during a presentation at TechNet Augusta 2026. “These are the areas, as a lot of our research designers and certain providers can tell you, some painstaking, where we have to go through our validation. We have to make sure that the content and everything that you guys have behind the objectives and curriculum aligns and has applicability to the offerings or the workflows inside the document setup.”

“We’ve been doing that by Excel sheets, focus groups and humans, and it’s daunting and very hard to go through, and [it’s a] very lengthy process. So, in the background, that team has been working on a premium AI system that can help validate that. Basically, it’s going to take that three-to-four-month process and get it down to a couple of weeks. This is the unveiling today. It went live on Monday.”

Isnor added that crews have posted CAT on cyberworkforce.mil.

He also warned that his office is experiencing a massive backlog regarding CAT but said they will catch up.

TechNet Augusta is organized by AFCEA International with help from the U.S. Army Cyber Center of Excellence. SIGNAL Media is the official media of AFCEA International.