Posted on 02/02/2010 1:48:27 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Less than two years after the U.S. Air Force officially dumped its planned Cyber Command, it's scaled-back replacement, the 24th Air Force, recently officially opened for business. Over the past five years, the air force has been trying to establish a new Cyber War operation and use it to gain overall control for all Department of Defense Cyber War activities. The other services were not keen on this. That resistance, plus internal problems (losing track of nuclear weapons, cost overruns on new aircraft, inability to perform on the battlefield) led to the Cyber Command operation being scaled back to being the 24th Air Force. This organization will handle electronic and Internet based warfare, and eventually become the air force component of the U.S. Cyber Command (which is supposed to start operations this year, maybe).
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Sounds “Terminatorish”
This should be done through the NSA....PERIOD.
Heck, the DoD already has the Defense Information Systems Agency, DISA. Why are they not doing this stuff?
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