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U.S. To Create New Cyber Command
Mike Sachoff
Staff Writer
2009-06-24
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The U.S. Department of Defense will create a Cyber Command to protect the military's network of computers and operate safely in cyberspace.
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The new Cyber Command is likely to be located at Fort Meade, Maryland, outside Washington, D.C. It will be focused on protecting military systems but not other U.S. government or private networks, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said.
The Cyber Command will initially go live in October and be fully operational in October 2010, Whitman said.
Whitman did not disclose if the command would be able to carry out offensive operations as well.
"This command is going to focus on the protection and operation of DoD's networks," he said. "This command is going to do what is necessary to be able to do that."
The United States has said many attempts to hack into its networks can be traced back to China but it has not directly accused Chinese authorities of being responsible.
The U.S. Department of Defense operates about 15,000 networks and runs some 7 million computers and other information technology devices, Whitman said.
"Our defense networks are constantly probed. There are millions of scans every day," he said.
"The power to disrupt and destroy, once the sole province of nations, now also rests with small groups and individuals, from terrorist groups to organized crime to industrial spies to hacker activists, to teenage hackers," he said.
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