By Lisa Ferdinando, DoD News, Defense Media Activity
WASHINGTON -- In response to the changing aspect upwards of warfare, U.S. Cyber Command volition endure elevated tomorrow to a combatant command, primary Pentagon spokesperson Dana W. White said today.
“The cyber domain volition define the adjacent century of warfare,” White said at a Pentagon intelligence conference.
Army Lt. Gen. Paul M. Nakasone, virtually lately commander of Army Cyber Command, volition have his quaternary star every bit he succeeds retiring Navy Adm. Michael S. Rogers every bit Cybercom commander.
“Just every bit our armed services must endure prepared to defend our acre against hostile acts from land, air together with sea,” White said, “we must likewise endure prepared to deter, together with if necessary, response to hostile acts inward cyberspace.”
New Warfighting Domain Has ‘Come of Age’
Nakasone volition play a critical business office inward tasks that include grooming cyber warriors, advocating for to a greater extent than cybersecurity resources, together with planning together with conducting cyber operations, White said.
Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan is to preside over the Cybercom component of ceremony at the Integrated Cyber Center/Joint Operations Center at Fort Meade, Maryland, White said.
“This modify of ascendance is noteworthy because it signifies the elevation of Cyber Command every bit our tenth combatant command,” she said. “Last year, [Defense Secretary James N.] Mattis announced the elevation of Cyber Command, acknowledging that a novel warfighting domain has come upwards of age.”
Cyber Command Established inward 2009
U.S. Cyber Command, which has been a subunified ascendance nether U.S. Strategic Command, was established inward 2009 inward response to the speedily evolving threats, amongst adversaries seeking to exploit the cyber domain to laid on the United States of America together with its allies.
The elevation of the ascendance raises the stature of the commander to a peer score amongst other unified combatant ascendance commanders, allowing the Cybercom commander to study straight to the secretarial assistant of defense, Kenneth P. Rapuano, assistant secretarial assistant of defense forcefulness for homeland defense forcefulness together with global security, told reporters at the Pentagon terminal year.
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