Via FCW.com -
The Army may follow the Air Force’s lead in setting up a cyber command.
“Cyber war is emerging as just as important as kinetic war, some say more important,“ said Vernon Bettencourt, the Army’s deputy chief information officer at the recent AFCEA Belvoir chapter/Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems industry day in Bethesda, Md.
“We are looking at what the Air Force has done and we keep asking ourselves, ‘Are there any ideas the Army should be adopting?’” Bettencourt added.
The Air Force announced it would create a cyber command last November that would be located at the 8th Air Force at Barksdale Air Force Base, La. The service named Lt. Gen. Robert Elder, commander of the 8th Air Force, as the command’s first chief. The command is scheduled to begin operations in May and be fully operational by October 2009.
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