Pentagon Admits That It Is Not Ready To Wage Cyber Warfare. New Cyber Strategy Will Be Released Next Week

U.S. soldiers on “virtual missions” (IMAGE – U.S. Army)

Bloomberg: U.S. Military’s Anti-Hacking Force Won’t Be Ready Until 2018

The Pentagon will miss its own 2016 deadline to create cybersecurity teams to defend critical computer networks from hacking and they won’t be fully operational until 2018, a senior Defense Department official said.

U.S. Cyber Command’s effort to create 133 teams with almost 6,200 military and civilian personnel to defend the nation against significant cyber-attacks has been disrupted by spending constraints known as sequestration, Eric Rosenbach, assistant secretary for homeland defense and global security, told a Senate hearing in Washington Tuesday.

“It put a big hole in the training pipeline for these cybermission forces,” Rosenbach, who also serves as principal cyber-adviser to Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, told a Senate Armed Services subcommittee. “It really has hurt us in a way that makes me nervous.”

WNU Editor: The Pentagon may not be ready .... but I suspect that the NSA is.

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