Air Force Spreads Cyber Command to All 50 States

shinnok · June 18, 2008

At least 15 different sites are competing to become the headquarters for the Air Force's new Cyber Command. I'm headed to one of 'em tonight, in fact. But no matter which base ultimately gets picked, the flyboys are looking to spread the digital wealth. I mean really spread it, with a "a cyber unit in every state," GovExec.com's Bob Brewin reports. It's a time-honored technique for "secur[ing] the Hill's backing -- and bucks -- for any new program."
The majority of the sites... are designated as so-called network operations, a fancy way to describe the circuits and connections that already exist to serve those bases. While this is just putting a new name on old operations, it helps to include all 50 states in the count, which then bolsters the sales job.
Not all of the Air Force's new online combatants will actually be active duty members of the service. So far, the Command "recruited 400 part-time personnel," the Christian Science Monitor notes -- like Air National Guardsmen, who usually work at Microsoft, Cisco or Sprint.
All told, the service said in a recent letter to governors, Cyber Command is supposed to have "a headquarters of approximately 550 personnel; a Numbered Air Force (NAF) of approximately 275 personnel; and four wings... with more than 65 subordinate squadrons assigned to those wings collectively, to include units from the Reserve and Air National Guard." (Here's a proposed org chart.)
Those folks won't just be there to shore up military networks, the letter goes on to say. Cyber Command's troops will use "electromagnetic and directed energy to... attack the enemy Computer Network Operations." And they'll engage in "psychological operations, military deception and operations security... to influence, disrupt, corrupt or usurp adversarial human and automated decision making while protecting our own."

sursa: http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/06/air-forces-50-s.html

related: http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2008/02/cyber_command?currentPage=all

http://www.afcyber.af.mil/

Disperatii isi construiesc armata electronica :lol: Nimic nou? Da insa inainte se facea in spatele cortinei,insa acum incet incet contruiesc un gard legal in jurul presupusei "forte electronice" cu ajutorul caruia vor putea actiona si la suprafata.