CISO Venice Goodwine has placed an emphasis on standardizing position descriptions in an effort to develop a workforce that can support new cyber capabilities.

GAO officials found that OPM missed deadlines to establish a structure to track cybersecurity positions, causing a domino effect of delays.

The guidance lays out how agencies can identify where they have cyber and IT skills shortages and what steps they can take to mitigate to fill those gaps.

Low morale at places like the National Security Agency and high salaries outside of government drive personnel away from Washington, D.C., and into the waiting arms of Silicon Valley.

IT trade group CompTIA will receive $249,000 in the first year year of the project to help illustrate cybersecurity job vacancies. The map is expected to come out in late 2016.