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October 5th, 2006, 07:26 PM
Senior Air Force leaders plan to establish a new command for directing the service's numerous activities in cyberspace, a move intended to combat the ever-growing Internet prowess of terrorist groups like al Qaeda, according to sources and documents.
Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne and Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley have tapped the service's Air Education and Training, Air Combat and Air Force Space commands to formulate a range of options for the notional "Operational Command for Cyberspace," according to a Sept. 6 letter signed by the two leaders. Inside the Air Force obtained the letter this week.
"All options are on the table at this point," one service official involved in Air Force cyberspace operations told ITAF on Sept. 27. The United States is "already at war in cyberspace, so we need to get everything under one umbrella," the official added.
"We're going to do more than just move around deck chairs on the Titanic" in molding the new outfit, Lani Kass, director of of the service's Cyberspace Task Force, told ITAF this week. "This will be a 24/7/365 kind of operation," she added during a brief interview at an Air Force Association-sponsored conference in Washingto
http://worldpoliticswatch.com/article.aspx?id=233
Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne and Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley have tapped the service's Air Education and Training, Air Combat and Air Force Space commands to formulate a range of options for the notional "Operational Command for Cyberspace," according to a Sept. 6 letter signed by the two leaders. Inside the Air Force obtained the letter this week.
"All options are on the table at this point," one service official involved in Air Force cyberspace operations told ITAF on Sept. 27. The United States is "already at war in cyberspace, so we need to get everything under one umbrella," the official added.
"We're going to do more than just move around deck chairs on the Titanic" in molding the new outfit, Lani Kass, director of of the service's Cyberspace Task Force, told ITAF this week. "This will be a 24/7/365 kind of operation," she added during a brief interview at an Air Force Association-sponsored conference in Washingto
http://worldpoliticswatch.com/article.aspx?id=233