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Date: Mon May 11 2009 - 01:15:53 CDT

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http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2009/05/airforce_space_commander_050809/

By Bruce Rolfsen
Staff writer
Air Force Times
May 10, 2009

The head of U.S. Strategic Command, which oversees U.S. interests in
space and cyberspace, believes the Defense Department needs to organize
its cyber defensive and offensive capabilities under a single commander.

Air Force Gen. Kevin Chilton, who now oversees one of the 10 unified
commands, put forth his suggestion May 7 in a Washington appearance
before reporters.

Chilton made his case for a joint cyber command by drawing an analogy to
war.

In combat, no lines are drawn between an army’s offensive and defensive
units; in the cyber world, though, the Defense Department fences off the
unit running day-to-day operations and protecting networks, the Joint
Task Force-Global Network Operations in Arlington, Va., from the unit
with attack capabilities, the Joint Functional Component
Commander-Network Warfare, part of the National Security Agency at Fort
Meade, Md.

Chilton would like the joint command, likely headquartered at Fort
Meade, to be part of Strategic Command, based at Offutt Air Force Base,
Neb.

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