http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/06/cyber_command_center_proposal/ By Dan Goodin in San Francisco The Register 6th May 2009 The US military wants to create a unified digital command center in Maryland as part of a push to reorganize its offensive and defensive cyber operations. The center would be located at the Army's Fort Meade and would be a sub-unit of the US Strategic Command, Lieutenant General Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, told a House Armed Services subcommittee on Tuesday. Its mission would be to protect the US military computers by blending offensive and defensive capabilities of the Pentagon and the NSA. The ultra-secretive NSA has come under fire over the past few weeks for comments by the Obama administration's top intelligence official that the agency should become the lead agency in protecting the country's power grids and other critical infrastructure. Alexander has since taken pains to assure critics that his agency doesn't want to run or operate civilian networks. On Tuesday, he renewed those efforts, saying the NSA wanted only to use its expertise to provide technical support to the Department of Homeland Security. [...] -- LayerOne 2009, Information Security for the discerning professional. May 23-24 2009 @ The Anaheim Marriott in Anaheim, California Visit http://layerone.info for more informationReceived on Wed May 06 2009 - 22:33:02 PDT
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