The Atlantic Council’s Commission on Defense Innovation Adoption acknowledged in a new report that there were “broader, strategic matters” that “will take time to reach full implementation.”
"We’ve had tremendous experience. But the scope, scale, sophistication of the threat has changed," US Cyber Command chief Gen. Paul Nakasone said.
Granted by Congress in the 2022 defense bill, the new authorities let Cyber Command handle matters traditionally reserved for the armed services.
“A cyber service might have some benefits in ease of administrative management, but we have a variety of...military services in the Department of Defense who perform a variety of missions," Mieke Eoyang said.
The nomination comes as Gen. Paul Nakasone plans to step down after leading both agencies for five years.
“We know everything about, you know, a T-72 tank all the way to every nut and bolt in there for the Army," Col. Candice Frost said. "But we don't have that for networks, with respect to all-source capability.”
"I think the hesitancy on our side would be - well, so soon after creating the Space Force, we don’t want to just create a bunch of bureaucracy," Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wisc., said.
The report, without "controlled unclassified information" redactions, discusses concerns with major weapons programs from ships to planes to hypersonic missiles.
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