Lack of steady funding for fiscal 2022 could stress the Defense Department’s already tenuous tech personnel needs as the military services grapple with recruitment and retention challenges among cyber talent.

Arnold Punaro, the board chair for the National Defense Industrial Association, told FCW that personnel and pay is affected first as inflation reduces the Pentagon’s buying power as it faces the possibility of a yearlong continuing resolution.

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