[ISN] Vice chief of Cyber Command is reassigned

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 02:17:17 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2008/09/airforce_general_moves_090208w/

By Bruce Rolfsen 
Staff writer
Air Force Times
Sept. 3, 2008

The Air Force’s latest reassignment list for general officers reflects 
the service’s move away from an independent cyber command.

The provisional command's vice commander, who has been on the job for 
one month, is being reassigned to the Pentagon, the Air Force said in an 
Aug. 29 statement. No replacement was named.

Maj. Gen. Randal D. Fullhart, who assumed the vice commander post in 
August, is moving to the Air Staff to join the Office of the Assistant 
Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition as director of global reach 
programs. Fullhart is a career mobility pilot, but he served with the 
National Security Agency as the deputy chief for the Central Security 
Service for two years before moving to the cyber post.

The service’s plans to establish a cyber command were put on hold in 
August as newly appointed Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz and acting 
Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley began a wide-ranging review of 
projects advocated by the leaders they replaced, now-retired Gen. T. 
Michael Moseley and former secretary Michael Wynne.

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