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Cyber Force: Congress considering creating a new military branch
« on: August 18, 2024, 10:26:48 am »
Cyber Force: Congress considering creating a new military branch
 
FeaturedWIB culture August 8, 2024 Staff Writer

Jule Pattison-Gordon
Government Technology

The idea of creating a U.S. Cyber Force has been around for years, proposed as a possible fix for the military’s struggles attaining, training and retaining enough cyber talent to meet Cyber Command’s needs. Now, the proposal has risen again within the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA 2025).

The House and Senate Armed Services Committees approved versions of an NDAA 2025 amendment that — if passed — would require studying the creation of an independent military branch dedicated to cybersecurity, dubbed the Cyber Force. The study would consider how well a Cyber Force could meet workforce and training needs, compared to if the military just built on its current model for Cyber Command.

This amendment isn’t the first try. A similar measure in 2024 failed to make it into final legislation. Meanwhile, in 2023 there was a measure passed requiring a study into efforts to meet cyber workforce needs. That study was to consider both “existing models for total force generation practices and programs, as well as nontraditional and creative alternatives.” That report does not appear to have been released to the public as of yet.

https://warisboring.com/cyber-force-congress-considering-creating-a-new-military-branch/
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Re: Cyber Force: Congress considering creating a new military branch
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2024, 10:27:57 am »
Remember how congress and the military fought Reagan over Star Wars?  But he was a republican.
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Re: Cyber Force: Congress considering creating a new military branch
« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2024, 08:43:43 pm »
Truthfully, this isn't a terrible idea.  I'm not sure if it should be a "military" branch, but having something like this make sense considering what so many of our adversaries around the world have been doing.
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