The Joint Chiefs of Staff-hosted Cyber Guard exercise has discussed lessons on possible cyber threat scenarios and response strategies, DoD News reported Saturday. Karen Parrish writes approximately 800 representatives from 100 organizations including the Department
MoreMaj. Gen. Stephen Fogarty, commanding general of the U.S. Army‘s Cyber Center of Excellence and Fort Gordon in Georgia, has been named chief of staff for the U.S. Cyber Command, the Defense
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U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Michael Gilday, current director of operations at the U.S. Cyber Command, has been nominated to serve as commander of the military branch’s Fleet Cyber Command that operates as the Tenth Fleet. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter
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Senators have proposed a bipartisan amendment that they plan to integrate with the fiscal year 2017 defense policy bill in an effort to make the U.S. Cyber Command as a unified combatant command within the
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The Senate Appropriations Committee has passed a bill that would authorize $515.9 billion for the Defense Department‘s base expenditures and another $58.6 billion wartime overseas contingency programs in fiscal 2017, Defense News reported Thursday.
MoreVice Adm. Jan Tighe, commander of the Fleet Cyber Command and 10th fleet at the U.S. Navy, has been nominated to serve as deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare under the office
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is near the release of a program designed to help military cyber warfighters plan and carry out missions in cyberspace, DoD News reported Thursday. Frank Pound, a program manager at
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The House Armed Services Committee could tackle the possibility of elevating the status of the U.S. Cyber Command to a unified combatant command level as part of the panel’s markup of the fiscal year
MoreThe U.S. Marine Corps has launched a cyberspace warfare group to help man, equip and train the military branch’s cyber mission teams to conduct defensive and offensive operations. The service branch said March 25 the Marine Corps Cyberspace
MoreDefense Secretary Ashton Carter has said one of his proposed changes to the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986 is to clarify the role of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, DoD News
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