Posted on 11/25/2024 8:47:22 AM PST by Fish Speaker
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has long pushed back against the establishment of a new military service dedicated to cyberspace, but with President-elect Donald Trump on his way back to the White House, a separate cyber force has a real shot at becoming a reality, according to experts and to lawmakers who support the move.
“This change in administration potentially could give more impetus to the creation of a separate cyber service,” Quentin Hodgson, formerly the Pentagon’s director of Cyber Plans, told Breaking Defense. “[Trump] did that with the Space Force. It was something that the Department of Defense didn’t want, but he decided he wanted it, and it’s possible that that could also happen with cyberspace.”
Hodgson was hardly alone in connecting Trump’s then-controversial move to stand up the Space Force in 2019 to visions of what his second term could bring to the cyber realm. Among those who made the comparison to Breaking Defense was Rep. Pat Fallon, a Texas Republican and vocal supporter of the cyber force idea.
“As the past half century has shown us, there will be naysayers and contrarians within the Pentagon who will do everything to slow-roll major changes. However, only six years ago, we had the same issue in the space domain,” Fallon said in an email. “We need concrete progress and limited stagnation in cyber, something I know the Trump Administration will emphasize throughout the next four years.”
Fallon and Rep. Morgan Luttrell, another Texas Republican, authored an amendment in the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act that called for an independent third-party study to help lawmakers and DoD leaders determine if a separate cyber force is necessary. The study is being conducted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.
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DoD considerations aside, I want the CIA to go after hacker sites around the world. Chinese, Russian,... wherever.
My question would be, will we get a whole bunch of people trying to join Cyber Force, who know nothing about cyber security?
I think we have this capability already, it’s called the NSA.
Repurpose the NSA back to a national defense mission that targets only foreign entities. I suspect they are already deeply involved in cyberspace operations.
DoD had separate agencies in the communications security arena that could have easily evolved into cyberspace activities. However they were shut down with missions ineffectively lumped into MI. The Army’s version was the USASA.
“The Pentagon has long pushed back against the establishment of a new military service dedicated to cyberspace,”
That will be the home of Stasi style domestic spying and censorship.
No. Not happening.
“That will be the home of Stasi style domestic spying and censorship.”
NSA, CIA, BATF, Fusion Centers? We already have that.
I have met very few officers (esp Generals) who even remotely understand cyber security.
DOGE is basically two guys with no real authority coming up with a list of suggestions.
They have zero say in any National Security issues which are way beyond their current level of understanding. What I mean by that while Musk May still have a security clearance (which is kind of strange since he uses recreational drugs), he does not have “need to know” on national security regarding anything other than government projects involving Space X. For instance, while he may have access to classified information regarding the physical attributes of a top secret satellite that a Space X rocket might lift into orbit, he would not be allowed to have access to information regarding how that satellite works, collects or transmits data Nor would he know what the target of the data collection is or what the data shows.
Langley?
Point made... might need a new FBI for Langley.
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