Shaun Waterman
Creating a new military service to wage war in the cyber domain would take too long, risk creating a top-heavy bureaucracy, and create confusion about the defense of other services’ IT networks, two former leaders of U.S. Cyber Command told a congressionally chartered research committee looking into the question.
Retired Air Force Gen. Timothy Haugh and his predecessor, Army Gen. Paul Nakasone, both testified last month at the first hearing of the National Academies’ committee conducting a “consensus study” on “alternative organizational models for the cyber forces of the U.S. Armed Forces,” as directed in the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act.
The committee expects to finish its work and report to Congress sometime next year, a National Academies staffer told Air & Space Forces Magazine on condition of anonymity.
In testimony Nov. 20, both men argued that the CYBERCOM 2.0 reforms that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed off on last month should be given time to bear fruit before embarking on the massive organizational lift of creating a whole new service.
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