US Space Force cannot rapidly scale cyber defense engineering expertise to meet critical mission system threats

The US Space Force struggles to build and maintain sufficient in-house cyber defense engineering capabilities for mission-critical systems, forcing them to contract expensive consulting firms (paying $81M+ to Deloitte) for what should be core competency. Current solutions fail because government agencies lack agile training pipelines to develop specialized cyber talent internally, creating dangerous dependency on external vendors and slow procurement cycles that don't match the speed of evolving cyber threats.