By Barry Rosenberg
Though Pentagon planners are committed to making some hard line-item
choices in their budgets in the coming years, they got it right when it
came to accelerating the funding for cyber defense in fiscal year 2014
so it at least can have a fighting chance of keeping pace with
technical, IT developments in the commercial and consumer world.
“Cyber investments will grow in response to emerging threats in
cyberspace,” the budget document states. “Teams of cyber
experts—including defensive, intelligence and analytical—will defend the
nation, as well as DOD infrastructure, by conducting reconnaissance,
surveillance, development, maintenance and analysis.”
The U.S. Cyber Command will see a boost in funding, as will each of
the military service’s various cyber commands. USCYBER will receive a
newly built Joint Operations Center, construction of which should be
finished in 2017.
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