Cyber Command or Skynet???

September 2008

Cyber Command plan, sought for McGuire, is suspended. The Pentagon has suspended an Air Force plan to establish a Cyber Command that would protect the United States from attacks on its electronic infrastructure, for which McGuire Air Force Base was a potential headquarters. The initiative might be falling victim to a turf battle within the federal Department of Defense. A memo circulated this week announced that budget and personnel transfers for the project have been put on hold. Meanwhile, a senior military commander told the Associated Press that computer defense and offense would be better sited within U.S. Strategic Command, which has the military responsibility for cyberspace across all services and commands. The former secretary of the Air Force, who was fired earlier this year, had been the chief patron of creating a cyber command.