Todays news includes information on the new cyber command for the United States Air Force. Over the next month I will be running these as the Air Force Cyber Command comes to fruition. As a side note in the article by Bob Brewin he mentions the documentation package sent out to governors. If Anybody has a copy of that or an “in” at USAF Cyber Command (provisional) please let me know. It is interesting to note in a few of the articles coming out that the new cyber command is about attack not just defend. I do not believe most people have a good idea of what that means. Perhaps something we need to explore further. Cyber Warfare is NOT information assurance and security (sorry NSA/DHS CAEs), and it is not hacking. I’ve kind of always been idealistic and thought of hacking as experimentation. It uses techniques from all those realms and the rest of military theory though.
Now the news.
Arkansas lobbying for Air Force Cyber Command headquarters
Arkansas is one of 18 states vying to become the home of the headquarters for the Air Force Cyber Command, charged with protecting information systems for critical American infrastructures…
Offutt, Bellevue hope to land Air Force Cyber Command
A high-speed fiber-optic network, high-tech workers and ample security top the Air Force’s wish list for the home of its new Cyber Command, which Nebraska and 17 other states are bidding to land. That’s good news for Offutt Air Force Base, officials said, because Offutt and the Omaha metropolitan area meet all the Air Force’s requirements, which were spelled out in a letter this week to the governors of states vying for the command…
Air Force seeks information on Cyber Command locations
The Air Force recently sent a letter to governors in 18 states asking for information that will help Pentagon officials decide where to locate the new Cyber Command. Communities across the nation are trying to become the headquarters for the arm of the Air Force that will patrol cyberspace, which primarily will be military computer networks but also includes anything in the electromagnetic spectrum from cell-phone calls to ATM transactions…
Beale’s big push for Cyber Command
eale Air Force Base boosters say their selling points are mission-ready as the July 1 deadline nears for Cyber Command site applications to Air Force brass. Recent communications between local officials and staffers from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s office sent local efforts to attract the Air Force’s new Internet warfare unit to Beale into overdrive, said Yuba County spokesman Russ Brown…
Cyber Command Sweepstakes
Eighteen states are vying to become the home of the headquarters for the coveted Air Force Cyber Command. So, on May 15, William Anderson, assistant secretary of the Air Force for installations, environment and logistics, sent a letter to the governors, asking them to provide details that will help the service make its decision
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The private developers are vying with a competing vision from Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, D-N.H., who’s pushing to bring the U.S. Air Force’s Cyber Command to the structure. A military use would trump private developers, but the Air Force hasn’t contacted the Navy. The structure, dating to 1908, features medieval architecture with turrets that give it the appearance of a fortress. Over the years, the Navy expanded the prison several times, and more than 80,000 prisoners spent time there before it closed in 1974.