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Air Force Scraps Plans For Cyber Command In Favor of New Nuclear Organization

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Friday, October 10th, 2008

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By Marina Malenic The Air Force will not to go through with plans to create a Cyberspace Command dedicated solely to computer network defense and attack, service officials said this week. Service leaders, meeting at a "Corona" at the U.S. Air Force Academy last week, decided to create a separate command dedicated to the service's strategic nuclear mission instead. The briefings and decisions at the Corona were "dominated by discussions on the nuclear enterprise," according to an Air Force press…

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