Behold! Pentagon’s Cyber-Command and the Rise of the Cybermen.
No, it’s not a plot line from Dr. Who.
It’s the Pentagon and the new ‘CyberCommand’ that will soon be ’stood up’ to use military parlance. Cybercommand will take some of the operations of Strategic Command some of the operations of NSA and DIA. It would not affect the cyber efforts of DHS however.
Still to be decided is who would head cyber command (likely to be a four star general).
In case you were wondering, there are 10 ‘commands’ in the Pentagon structure. Can you name them all? Here’s the wikipedia list:
Regional Responsibilities:
- United States Africa Command - USAFRICOM (HQ: Kelley Barracks, in Stuttgart, Germany)
- United States Central Command - USCENTCOM (HQ: MacDill AFB, in Tampa, FL)
- United States European Command - USEUCOM (HQ: Patch Barracks, in Stuttgart, Germany)
- United States Pacific Command - USPACOM (HQ: Camp H. M. Smith, in Honolulu, HI)
- United States Northern Command - USNORTHCOM (HQ: Peterson AFB, in Colorado Springs, CO)
- United States Southern Command - USSOUTHCOM (HQ: Doral (Miami), FL)
Functional Responsibilities:
- United States Joint Forces Command - USJFCOM (HQ: Norfolk, VA)
- United States Special Operations Command - USSOCOM (HQ: MacDill AFB, in Tampa, FL)
- United States Strategic Command - USSTRATCOM (HQ: Offutt AFB, in Omaha, NE)
- United States Transportation Command - USTRANSCOM (HQ: Scott AFB, in St. Clair County, IL)
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