Isn't this essentially what the NSA is?
We already have a very large cyber apparatus between many agencies + Booz allen and Friends. I have a feeling this would just be another agency with more spending.
We already have a very large cyber apparatus between many agencies + Booz allen and Friends. I have a feeling this would just be another agency with more spending.
This proposal would be to combine the six (?) uniformed cyber services into one. So it would be a reduction. The large distributed cyber apparatus is what this proposal is trying to solve. The more i write this the more i think you didn't read the article.
Legislation on security-centered development is a possible solution, but the political will from congressional sub-comittees just is not there. It could be if it was pitched as a way of enriching the states those reps are from with high paying white-collar jobs that would make states like Mississippi, Ohio and other struggling but MIC centered states at the center of a growing and important field, but alas, the contractors doing the hiring probably won't want to balance the budget on their current money printing machines for that.
This is something worth talking to your member of Congress about. Budgets might be bigger, but it helps some destitute states, improves national defense (defense defense, not war in the name of defense), and makes politicians re-electable.
Well, except for the ones with AK-47s from Walmart.
I'd like to hear James Bamford's take on whether the task is in-scope for the NSA.
The first part does not follow from the second; also the NSA director is a uniformed military officer.
Though the US military has a separate cyber warfare combatant command, too.